One World Trade Center may currently be the tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere, but if a team of mostly Black contractors and lenders has its way, they will be leading the charge to eclipse the tower and make even greater history by becoming the first predominately African-American team to build a skyscraper in New…
Source: LaylaBird / Getty Responding to the ongoing rise of violence against Black women and girls, Minnesota took a step forward in protecting this vulnerable group. Gov. Tim Walz signed a bill Monday launching the Missing and Murdered African American Women Task Force. Established as a part of the 2021 Public Safety and Judiciary Omnibus Bill, the task force aims to address the root…
The former players were the key figures in the history-making NBA brawl in Detroit. Seventeen years ago, Detroit Pistons player Ben Wallace and Indiana Pacer Ron Artest, as he was known then, were on opposites sides of one of the biggest brawls in sports history. The Malice in the Palace, as the incident became known,…
Christopher B. Duncan is best known for his role on “The Jamie Foxx Show” but he has so much more depth as an actor to offer. For five seasons, Duncan played Jamie Foxx’s bourgeois nemesis, Braxton P. Hartnabrig, at the King Hotel. The comedy-based sitcom quickly gained traction among its broad audience and cemented Duncan’s…
In remarks from the White House on Monday, President Biden emphasized the need for vaccine boosters as a new strain of COVID-19 makes its way to the United States. President Joe Biden on Monday said that the new omicron variant of the coronavirus is “a cause for concern, not a cause for panic” during presidential…
Future medical professionals attending Meharry Medical College received an early holiday surprise when they were each gifted $10,000 with no strings attached. James E.K. Hildreth, president of the historically Black college located in Nashville, Tennessee, announced the generous gift on Nov. 22 in a video shared with students. Meharry faculty and students Photo: Meharry Medical…
King, 62, was a sprinter and a member of the U.S. relay team for the Summer Olympics in 1984 A former University of Alabama track star and Olympian was killed in a shootout with another man, authorities say. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office on Monday identified Emmit King and Willie Albert Wells as the two…
The fashion designer passed away at age 41 after a two-year battle with a rare form of cancer. Following the passing of Virgil Abloh, the beloved menswear designer for Louis Vuitton and founder and CEO of Off-White, the French fashion house will “pay tribute to the life and legacy of a creative genius” by showing…
EXCLUSIVE: “There are so many dark places in my life, where I’m left thinking I can’t believe that just happened. So I give that all to Monet,” Blige says. Power Book II: Ghost features a long list of heavy hitters, including R&B and hip-hop legends Mary J. Blige and Method Man. With both actors having…
In the wake of the release of the Hulu documentary Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson,” celebrity stylist Wayne Scott Lukas, who has worked with pop queen Janet Jackson for decades, is offering his behind-scenes-look about what really happened during the infamous reveal during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show. Lukas claims that everything…
