A photo shows Brandon Mitchell attending the Aug. 28 event to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech during the 1963 March on Washington One of the jurors who convicted Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd on Monday defended his participation in a protest last summer in Washington, D.C., following online speculation…
Berkley announced that it had acquired rights to three out-of-print novels by Abrams that she had written nearly 20 years ago Nothing like a prominent life in public service to help your other career as a romance novelist. At least that’s the case for Stacey Abrams. Berkley announced Tuesday that it had acquired rights to…
March 28 marked 20 years since Sean Combs started to go by P. Diddy after being involved in a nightclub shooting. Sean John Combs is now Sean Love Combs. The hip-hop mogul shared a photo of his new driver’s license with his official name change on Instagram. The newly-named Sean Love Combs hangs out at…
Refugee resettlement agencies have waited for Biden to quadruple the number of refugees allowed into the United States this year since Feb. 12 President Joe Biden formally raised the nation’s cap on refugee admissions to 62,500 this year, weeks after facing bipartisan blowback for his delay in replacing the record-low ceiling set by former President…
Murder Inc. Records co-founder Irv Gotti is clapping back at people who think he has anything but love for the late rapper DMX. The record executive has been on the receiving end of criticism after speaking with Chicago hip-hop and R&B station 107.5 WGCI about the rapper’s death potentially being connected to his drug use. “They…
Source: MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images / Getty The Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association launched a racist attack at one of the two Black women running for mayor. Speaking with GBH News, Boston City Councilor Andrea J. Campbell, one of the candidates running for mayor, said this was a common pattern and practice. “We all…
Jordan Burnette was arrested Saturday riding a bicycle that has since been IDed as stolen from an area synagogue. A 29-year-old man has been charged with hate crimes after allegedly committing several attacks on New York City synagogues in recent weeks. Jordan Burnette was arrested in the early morning hours Saturday after being stopped for…
Talley told Tamron Hall what he “just found out two weeks ago from someone of authority” at the influential magazine. Legendary fashion figure Andre’ Leon Talley talked about experiencing wage disparity while working at Vogue magazine on The Tamron Hall Show. Talley appeared on the show Monday, where he said: “I just found out two…
Last year Steve Harvey made his dream of bringing his iconic game show “Family Feud” to Africa a reality. The show that pits two families against each other as they answer survey questions now features South Africa and Ghana along with several other countries on its growing viewership roster. “Bringing ‘Family Feud’ to Africa has long…
A Black man walked free in February after spending 39 years in prison for crimes he did not commit after the Georgia Innocence Project and the local district attorney asked that his convictions be vacated “as unreliable and not in the interests of justice.” Terry Talley, now 63, was just 23 when he was arrested,…
