“For 15 years, I’ve put basketball first, and now, it is time to put my health and family first,” the NBA player wrote in a statement shared on social media. NBA veteran LaMarcus Aldridge announced his early retirement Thursday due to a health condition. Read More: Gregg Popovich calls out politicians, NBA owners over Wright…
Source: Ariel Skelley / Getty The 4th Annual Black Maternal Health Week is a yearly campaign founded by the Black Mamas Matter Alliance. It was founded in response to institutions that have codified laws to segregate, marginalize, and disinvest in the health and wellbeing of birthing people, especially Black and Indigenous birthing people. The COVID-19…
The “Insecure” creator says she’s ready to end the show so that she can evolve These days Issa Rae can do no wrong and so it only made sense that the Black Twitter fave be celebrated on the cover of iconic entertainment magazine Rolling Stone. READ MORE: Rapper CHIKA retiring from music after battling mental…
A trailer released on Thursday, April 15 by Bravo TV for a three-part reunion of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” was anything but explosive to many viewers. The nearly two-minute clip started with Porsha Williams, Kenya Moore and Marlo Hampton shouting at each other until “RHOA” newbie Drew Sidora intervened with a prayer. The “Step Up” actress said, “Dear…
“You need to respect the chair and shut your mouth!” she said to the Ohio rep during a hearing on the coronavirus pandemic. The conversation between Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Dr. Anthony Fauci escalated during a meeting of the House Coronavirus Crisis Subcommittee resulting in Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) speaking out on Fauci’s behalf. Read More: Megan Thee…
Luke Alvin Oeltjenbruns refused to wear a mask at a home improvement store The substantial difference in the way police officers treat Black Americans versus white Americans continues to be exposed, and this time, there’s proof. A new video has gone viral of a white man trying to escape police apprehension while harming them in…
Four Black retired Tampa police officers have been honored by the city this month for blazing a trail against discrimination in the 1970s. Gray, James Dukes, Clarence Nathan and Lewis Rufus — now known as the Fearless Four — filed a discrimination complaint in 1974 with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the Tampa Police…
Puig released a statement addressing allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman back in 2018 This week, former Los Angeles Dodgers athlete Yasiel Puig has come forward to dispute claims that he sexually assaulted a woman at the Staples Center back in 2018. Wednesday, Puig released a statement addressing allegations made against him by an anonymous woman…
OPINION: Former Minneapolis officer Chauvin’s conviction could become a mandate against the senseless disregard of Black lives that we have all longed for The criminal trial of Derek Chauvin could lead to the verdict of a generation. There was no justice in the murder of Amadou Diallo. There was no justice in the murder of…
Brown revealed the cast has a “popping” group text In a recent interview with Variety, Yvette Nicole Brown revealed that a Community reunion movie is on its way. It’s been six years since Community aired its final season, and since then, fans have been clamoring for more Community, possibly in a movie format. Just this…
