During Asian American and Pacific Islander Month, two social media influencers talk about their blended cultures In May, we celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month amidst a year when crimes targeting Asian people rose by nearly 150% in major U.S. cities, resulting in a call to #StopAAPIHate. Read More: Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse…
The Black Wall Street Massacre memorial is shown in Tulsa, Oklahoma. | Source: Win McNamee / Getty Just days ahead of a widely promoted commemorative event surrounding the Tulsa Race Massacre‘s 100-year anniversary, the Tulsa Race Commission announced the cancellation of its “Rise and Remember” centennial celebration. Local news reported the commission provided little explanation…
Fantasia is still over the moon about the birth of her new baby girl. Earlier this week, on May 23, she announced that she and her husband, Kendall Taylor, welcomed their first child together. Now she’s giving a “testimony” about their miracle baby. On Wednesday, May 26, she uploaded a picture from her maternity shoot…
The Southwest Airlines aide had asked a woman to keep her seatbelt fastened during a Sacramento flight to San Diego. As America opens itself up to post-pandemic travel, an incredibly dangerous, disturbing trend has emerged: Fighting on airplanes. Just days after a video went viral of passengers fighting on Spirit Airlines, a flight attendant was…
A photo of Manuel Ellis is seen near the site of his death during a vigil for him on June 3, 2020, in Tacoma, Washington. | Source: David Ryder / Getty Killed nearly three months before the world learned George Floyd‘s name, Manuel Ellis’ case finally moves forward. On Thursday, Washington State Attorney General Bob…
Cosby was convicted of the 2004 sexual assault of ex-Temple University employee Andrea Constand in his mansion. Entertainment legend Bill Cosby was recently denied parole at the Pennsylvania prison where he has been incarcerated since 2018 serving a three-to-10-year sentence for aggravated sexual assault. The Pennsylvania Parole Board denied the 83-year-old actor-comedian-producer based on “a…
Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith, and Adrienne Banfield-Norris have taken a major step to cement their already amazing bond. The ladies of “The Red Table Talk” have decided to get matching lotus flower tattoos. The process was documented on the latest episode of their Facebook series and Jada also posted up the news on her…
A North Carolina woman has been arrested and faces multiple charges after reportedly driving her vehicle into two women who were protesting the fatal police shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. On Monday, May 24, Lisa Michelle O’Quinn, 41, of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, drove into the women, identified in the Elizabeth City Police Department’s press…
The incredibly-illustrious journalist’s appointment as a tenured professor at UNC is again another review, insiders say. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones not getting offered a tenured appointment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a decision that has ignited a sensational backlash in support of the lead author of The 1619 Project…
Things could’ve gone a lot worse following a recent game between the New York Knicks and the Atlanta Hawks after a peeved fan lodged a spitball at Hawks star Trae Young. The offense took place on Wednesday, May 26, during the Knicks’ 101-92 victory at New York’s Madison Square Garden in Game 2 to even…
