Nine months before Rosa Parks gained notoriety for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white woman, there was Claudette Colvin. “People said I was crazy because I was 15 years old and defiant and shouting, ‘It’s my constitutional right!’” said Colvin to CNN about the March 2, 1955, incident that…
OPINION: U.S. Congressman Bobby Scott touts Democrats’ Build Back Better Act for its “transformational” impact on the nation’s historically Black institutions With razor-thin margins in the House and Senate, and a Republican Party intent on obstruction, Democrats in Congress have been forced to make hard choices in search of a final agreement that fulfills President…
Pastor Darien Bolden of Baptist Ministers Conference says while “one shooting is too many,” the rampant gun violence in the city “needs to stop.” Black pastors in Jacksonville, Florida are imploring their community to help bring gun violence to an end. There have been over 360 shootings in the city this year, and Pastor Darien…
The rapper, whose legal name is Willie Junior Maxwell II, is among six charged with conspiring to distribute and possess controlled substances. Fetty Wap was arrested by the FBI on Thursday on federal drug charges in New York. The rapper, whose legal name is Willie Junior Maxwell II, was a performer at the Rolling Loud…
Florence “Flo-Jo” Giffith Joyner shocked the world with her record-breaking speed during the July 1988 U.S. Olympic trials in Indiana. The 5-foot-7, 130-pound sprinter blazed through the track in just 10.49 seconds, beating Evelyn Ashford’s previous world record of 10.76 seconds in the 100-meter race. Time Magazine notes that the announcer during the race looked…
Isaiah Andrews, 83, maintained his innocence when his wife was slain weeks after they wed in 1974. “I’ve become free,” said Andrews after new trial. An 83-year-old man who maintained that he did not murder his wife in 1974 has been found not guilty after spending 45 years in prison. Isaiah Andrews of Cleveland was…
DaBaby made his return to Rolling Loud three months following his controversial rant in Miami, thanks to his presumed mentor 50 Cent. Fans of the North Carolina rapper were in for a special treat on Thursday, Oct. 28, when Fif brought the “Suge” rapper out to perform on Day 1 of the festival’s New York…
“You’ve got to treat those kids as if they’re all yours,” said Zachery Johnson, a member of the Dads on Duty. The group is composed of about 40 dads tied to Southwood High School in Shreveport, Louisiana. The predominantly Black school had experienced a string of violent fights resulting in about two dozen student arrests…
If there’s one thing this pandemic has made painfully and abundantly clear, it’s that a lot of people don’t trust the media—until the media is telling them exactly what they already want to believe. Obviously, this was a thing long before COVID-19—as people of all demographics and ideologies are susceptible to confirmation bias—but the pandemic,…
A beloved staple of Atlanta news, Moore came to Atlanta from Arkansas, where she began her award-winning media career in 1990. Longtime Atlanta news anchor Jovita Moore has died overnight after a battle with brain cancer. She was 53. Moore announced to her viewers she would be having surgery to remove a brain tumor in…
