An Alabama sheriff’s office deleted a photo of a Christmas tree featuring actual mugshots from social media after receiving critical messages from offended members of the public. The controversial image surfaced on the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page on Thursday, Dec. 3, NBC News reported. The picture showed a tree decorated with string lights…
Rapper and mogul Rick Ross is using his platform as an avenue to spread awareness about the importance of affordable healthcare. According to AfroTech, the music artist—whose real name is William Leonard Roberts—teamed up with the telehealth platform Jetdoc to amplify its mission of ensuring that individuals have access to adequate health-related resources. Boss moves!…
TikTok may have a new rising star! Toya Johnson‘s youngest daughter Reign Rushing is tapping in to one of the platform’s latest dance challenges and bringing joy to fans’ timelines with her “Monday mood.” Johnson caught her toddler vibing out to the kid-friendly “Tap In” TikTok remix featuring Saweetie and “Phineas and Ferb” character Dr…
Black scholars are making historic moves at Ivy League schools. According to Hattiesburg American, 20-year-old Noah Harris was recently appointed to become president of Harvard University’s Undergraduate Council, making him the first Black man to be elected by the school’s student body. “He was loved on both sides of the aisle and he did so…
The plan, which supporters call “Safety for All,” is the latest version of the “defund the police” movement that Minneapolis and other cities have considered since Floyd’s May 25 death Minneapolis City Council members who tried unsuccessfully to dismantle the police department in response to George Floyd’s death are voting Wednesday on whether to shrink it, a…
Collins joins Stacey Sher and Oscar-winner Steven Soderbergh in creating the ceremony. Emmy Award nominee Jesse Collins will join Oscar nominee Stacey Sher and Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh as producers of the 2021 Academy Awards. The show is being reimagined for the April 28 telecast, according to Academy President David Rubin and Academy Chief Executive…
‘Given the immense and urgent threats and challenges our nation faces, he should be confirmed swiftly,’ Biden wrote in ‘The Atlantic’ President-elect Joe Biden made his case for retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin to be secretary of defense, urging Congress to waive a legal prohibition against a recently serving military officer running the Pentagon. With…
The U.K.’s Medical and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency is looking into whether the reactions were linked to the vaccine British regulators warned Wednesday that people who have a history of serious allergic reactions shouldn’t receive the new Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine as they investigate two adverse reactions that occurred on the first day of the country’s mass…
A new film by Nate Parker is being backed by Spike Lee, in what seems like an effort to help Parker surge forward in spite of former rape accusations which remain central in the conversation around consent and sexual assault. Parker dropped the trailer for his latest film “American Skin” on Monday, which many were…
Virtually every state is reporting surges just as a vaccine appears days away from getting the go-ahead in the U.S. Deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. have soared to more than 2,200 a day on average, matching the frightening peak reached last April, and cases per day have eclipsed 200,000 on average for the first…
