Comedian and television host Nick Cannon is still mourning the death of his infant son Zen. The bereaved father, although he has continued to stay busy with shows like “The Masked Singer,” “Wild ‘N Out” and his self-titled talk show, let the world know how difficult it is for him to have lost his 5-month-old…
U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick was sworn in as the first Black woman to represent the predominantly Democratic 20th District in Florida on Tuesday, but her Republican opponent she defeated by a landslide the week before, still has not conceded the race. Cherfilus-McCormick won the special election for the 20th District on Jan. 11, securing 78.7…
There are more than 30 film versions of Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, and all but one of them have white leads. The Scottish Macbeth is almost always played on the big screen in a manner that is authentic to the original 17th-century casting, a white European man. However, with his new project “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” Denzel Washington…
EXCLUSIVE: As tax season officially kicks off on Jan. 24, tax professionals lay out important tips to keep in mind for filers, especially as it relates to 2021’s child tax credits. Experts are cautioning Black households from filing their own taxes in 2022. They predict 2021 filings will yield historic tax returns, but worry self-filing…
Jamaica will be sending a four-man bobsled team, a two-man bobsled team and a female monobob racer to the Olympics this year. For the first time in about 20 years, a four-man Jamaican bobsled team has qualified for the Winter Olympics — this time in Beijing, China. The first time a four-man team from the…
There’s a crumb of good news for fans curious to know whether Idris Elba will take over for Daniel Craig as the spy agent James Bond after Craig stepped down from his most notable role in 2021 following the release of Cary Joji Fukunaga’s “No Time to Die.” During an interview with Deadline Podcast, Bond…
Abdurraqib, the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant,” is a Columbus, Ohio native who returned there a few years ago Receiving a literary prize from the American Library Association is a kind of homecoming for the essayist-poet Hanif Abdurraqib. “When I was young, I treated the library as a place to pass time, to get…
Several Black-focused initiatives and racial equity organizations are among the nearly 800 charitable causes Scott has supported since 2019 Billionaire MacKenzie Scott has wasted no time in sharing her fortune since divorcing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in 2019. Upworthy.com reports that Scott, 51, in under two years donated more than four times her ex-husband’s total…
Source: Genaro Molina / Getty Department of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland wants communities to understand the positive impact of the bipartisan infrastructure legislation on addressing longstanding environmental inequities. As part of her mandate in the Department of the Interior, Haaland is committed to leveraging the funding outlined in the bipartisan infrastructure bill to help clean…
Levar Stoney, 40, also announced in January 2021 that he had tested positive for COVID-19 The mayor of Virginia’s capital city said he tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday, but calls the symptoms “far milder” compared to when he contracted the virus last year — before getting vaccinated and boosted. Today, I tested positive for…
