Boooooy, the GOP sure can pick’em, can’t they? I’ve often said that when the white conservatives start looking to diversify and start scouring the sunken place for Black friends to parade around, they don’t need their negro mascots to be qualified, knowledgeable or even sensible—they just need them to be Black and conservative. But when…
Brooks, best known for starring in “Orange is the New Black,” shared pics of her two wedding gowns Thursday on Instagram. Danielle Brooks, the actress best known for her role as Tasha “Taystee” Jefferson on the Netflix hit series, Orange is the New Black, recently announced her marriage to fiancé Dennis Gelin. The couple, who…
Vivica Fox has moved on from her relationship with 50 Cent and she wants everyone else to as well. The actress appeared on “The Real” daytime talk show on Wednesday, Jan. 12, and discussed things like motherhood and learning how to take vacations by herself. However, the conversation, as it does many times in interviews,…
Mosby, Baltimore’s top prosecutor, faces two counts of perjury and two counts of making false mortgage loan applications. Baltimore’s top prosecutor Marilyn Mosby has been indicted on federal charges of perjury and making false statements with a series of financial transactions. The 41-year-old state’s attorney allegedly claimed that she experienced financial hardship due to the…
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick speaks with the media after being declared the winner of the South Florida 20th Congressional District by the Broward elections Canvassing Board on Friday, Nov. 12, 2021, in Lauderhill. | Source: Sun Sentinel / Getty In the latest indication that some Republicans still loyally use former President Donald Trump’s “big lie” logic about…
Renowned professor Celia Dial Saxon is being honored with the renaming of a residence hall after her, following a unanimous vote by the board of trustees at the University of South Carolina to name the upperclassmen dormitory after the distinguished educator. Saxon, who taught in Columbia, South Carolina, for over five decades, was described as…
Source: Andrew Burton / Getty The new federal indictment accusing Baltimore’s top prosecutor of committing perjury and making false statements on a COVID-19 loan application is the culmination of a failed investigation that was partially rooted in racism from political operatives desperate to make any charges stick, an attorney representing Marilyn Mosby suggested while responding…
Ciara took to Instagram on Jan. 11 to pen a special message to her husband, Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson. Wilson, who played his last game for the Seahawks 2021 football season this past weekend, ended the game on a high note, winning against the Arizona Cardinals 38-30. Despite thw win, the Seahawks finished with a 7-10…
The company will also pay more than $140 million in penalties in deal to settle claims by attorneys general of 39 states. The student loan servicing provider Navient reached a deal to cancel $1.7 billion in delinquent private student loans belonging to more than 66,000 borrowers. The company will also pay more than $140 million in…
Undated photo of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. preaching. | Source: Don Uhrbrock / Getty The name Martin Luther King Jr. is iconic in the United States. President Barack Obama mentioned King in both his Democratic National Convention nomination acceptance and victory speeches in 2008, when he said, “[King] brought Americans from every corner of…
