The department reopened an investigation after a book quoted Carolyn Bryant Donham as saying she lied when she claimed the 14-year-old whistled and made sexual advances The U.S. Justice Department told relatives of Emmett Till on Monday that it is ending its latest investigation into the 1955 lynching of the Black teenager from Chicago who was…
Source: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / Getty The release of the November jobs report received a mixed response as the number of jobs added fell short of expectations. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 210,000 jobs were added, much less than in prior months. But the tepid job growth could also point to the need for the final passage of the Build Back Better…
The fight started after Weezy accused the guard of taking photos and leaking them to the press. A member of Dwayne “Lil’ Wayne” Carter‘s security team has accused the rapper of pulling an AR-15 on him during a recent altercation that reportedly escalated from words to physical violence, according to TMZ. The incident allegedly occurred…
Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins, from the successful girl group TLC, claimed her Instagram account was hacked after finding herself on the receiving end of massive backlash on Dec. 5. This event occurred when her official account made a comment about Nicki Minaj underneath a viral Cardi B video. Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins claimed she was hacked after…
Master P is ready to be recognized as a legally single man after years of separation from his estranged wife, Sonya Miller. Miller and the No Limit Records founder and CEO married in 1989, but have been separated since 2010. Miller, who is the mother of the couple’s seven children, filed for divorce in 2013,…
Jewel Ham stayed quiet, but as the popularity of the feature she presented on her last day grew, she wanted to speak out. A young woman who claims she was responsible for the creation of what has become a time-honored tradition of Spotify, its Wrapped feature, is claiming she never got credit for her contribution. …
EPA Administrator Michael Regan visited residents during a five-day trip from Mississippi to Texas that highlighted low-income, mostly minority communities adversely affected by industrial pollution Michael Coleman’s house is the last one standing on his tiny street, squeezed between a sprawling oil refinery that keeps him up at night and a massive grain elevator that…
The Shumpert family is now posing prettily in SKIMS, the shapewear and underwear brand owned by Kim Kardashian West. The Shumpert family is the new face of SKIMS, the shapewear and underwear brand owned by Kim Kardashian West. Teyana Taylor, husband Iman Shumpert and their two daughters, Iman Tayla Jr., who’s known as Junie, and…
A Michigan teacher is giving back to a once illustrious Black community and helping her students learn valuable life lessons at the same time. Former Detroit high school teacher Maria Lawton Adams visited the community of Idlewild in 2020 and was devastated by what she saw. The 1,300 acres of land was established in 1912…
The U.N. health agency cited a total of 241 million cases of the disease in 2020, up 14 million from the year before, and 627,000 deaths The World Health Organization said Monday that the global response to the longtime threat of malaria has taken a hit as the coronavirus pandemic disrupted health services in many…
