Antonio Brown is a mess. The NFL has decided that AB submitted a fake vaccine card to the league, and he was suspended three games for it. But now his team, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and head coach Bruce Arians don’t know if Brown will remain with the team. On Thin Tampa Bay Ice “Nothing’s…
Although there has been an outpour of fiscal support for historically Black colleges and universities throughout the country, funding disparities between HBCUs and PWIs persist. Entrepreneur Dominique King is tapping into the power of technology to empower HBCU alumni to pay it forward by giving back to their alma maters, Forbes reported. We are so…
The family of pan-Africanism leader Marcus Garvey seeks to overturn his 1923 conviction for mail fraud Living descendants of Marcus Garvey, the civil rights activists who pioneered the pan-Africanism movement, are on a mission to exonerate the leader and bring justice to his name. In a global effort with other community leaders, they are urging…
Tamar Braxton‘s celebration post in honor of her sister Trina Braxton‘s 47th birthday got sidetracked on Dec. 3 after fans mention the duo’s family series “Braxton Family Values.” “Braxton Family Values,” or “BFV,” is a We TV reality television series that follows the lives of Toni, Traci, Towanda, Trina, Tamar, and the matriarch of the show…
Source: Nathan Howard / Getty A local Republican “community leader” based in Idaho was blasted recently for a racist since-deleted Tweet complaining about a commercial showing a Black family enjoying the holidays. The Daily Beast reported Lisa Leisy lost it on social media after seeing an old Hershey commercial depicting a Black family reveling in the holiday spirit. Writer…
Lakewood Church reported in 2014 that $600,000 in checks and cash was stolen from safe For more than seven years, no one has known what happened to $600,000 in checks and cash that was stolen from a safe at Pastor Joel Osteen’s Houston megachurch, which has one of the largest congregations in the country. Now,…
Mayor-elect Ken Welch declined to attend the St. Petersburg ball A ball planned for a Florida city’s first Black mayor has been canceled amid concerns its circus theme was inappropriate in the once-segregated city. The Junior League of St. Petersburg, which has thrown such balls since 2006, scrapped the 2022 event after Mayor-elect Ken Welch…
Jeffrey Thornton’s lawsuit may test the limits of California’s 2019 CROWN Act law against anti-Black hair discrimination A San Diego man who recently filed a lawsuit accusing a prospective employer of requiring him to cut his dreadlocks to land a new job is believed to be the first case of its kind filed since California’s…
Some 363 days after Columbus, Ohio, man Casey Goodson Jr. was gunned down from behind as the 23-year-old was on the doorstep of his home bearing Subway sandwiches for his family, the former Franklin County Sheriff’s deputy who killed him was charged with murder this past week. The Dec. 4 2020 killing — many details…
Tim Gilbert was found guilty in March 2020 of assault after an all-white jury discussed case in room that had Confederate memorabilia A Black man serving prison time in Tennessee for an alleged December 2018 assault has been granted a new trial because the all-white jury that convicted him deliberated in a room filled with…
