From youth empowerment initiatives to partnerships fostered with the nation’s leading financial institutions, several stars are spearheading projects centered on making financial literacy resources accessible and the latest one to do so is Christian rapper Lecrae. The Grammy Award-winning music artist has teamed up with Experian for the creation of a new digital series about…
Kanye West’s two-part appearance on N.O.R.E.’s podcast “Drink Champs” is still being discussed, ripped apart and analyzed amongst many on social media. Some 77 more minutes from the original Nov. 4 podcast were released on Nov. 12, and in them the Grammy award-winning rapper covered several hot-button topics, including would he ever participate in a…
Historically Black colleges and universities throughout the country have been at the forefront of leading research surrounding racial health disparities and two HBCUs recently received a major boost to advance their efforts. The University of Alabama at Birmingham and Tuskegee University were awarded a multi-million dollar grant for the expansion of their biomedical research programs….
They’re calling it ‘A night for the QUEENS.’ R&B legends Chaka Khan and Stephanie Mills are set to face off on Verzuz for a holiday season special the platform is billing as “A night for the QUEENS!!!” Verzuz TV, Triller and the Fite TV streaming platform will broadcast the Nov. 18 show live from the…
Investor and philanthropist Robert F. Smith is advancing his efforts to financially empower students at historically Black colleges and universities, and he’s teaming up with media mogul Steve Harvey and his wife Marjorie to support HBCU scholars. The Harveys have joined Smith’s Student Freedom Initiative which aims to eradicate barriers standing in the way of…
Have Erica Mena and Safaree Samuels changed their minds on sticking it out for better or for worse again? Mena was celebrating her 33rd birthday over the weekend and despite all of the messy drama they have been through over the past year-and-a-half, her husband, Samuels, was in attendance. Six months after filing for divorce,…
A Los Angeles music video director says that Kingston punched him, dragged him down the hall and pulled a gun on him “Beautiful Girls” singer Sean Kingston reportedly punched a Los Angeles music video director before pulling a gun on him, according to TMZ. The producer who goes by the name GXDLIKE, says that he…
Artis died on Nov. 7 of a gastric aneurysm at his home in Hampton, Virginia John Artis, who was wrongly convicted with boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter in a triple murder case made famous in a 1975 song by Bob Dylan and a 1999 film staring Denzel Washington, has died. He was 75. Artis died on…
Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty Overshadowed by the Virginia governor’s race, New Jersey’s race for governor has ended with the Republican challenger finally conceding. After ten days, Jack Ciattarelli acknowledged Gov. Phil Murphy’s victory in the Nov. 2 election. Results show Murphy dominated in early voting and mail-in ballots. Ciattarelli got around two-thirds of the election day vote. …
Kevin Gough said he’s sorry to anyone who was “inadvertently” offended The defense attorney in the murder trial for Ahmaud Arbery’s killers, who said that he didn’t want “any more Black pastors” in court after seeing Rev. Al Sharpton sitting with the victim’s family, apologized for his statements on Friday. “My apologies to anyone who…
