Vice President Kamala Harris, a Howard alumna, made a surprise appearance and walked onto the field for the pregame coin toss Jett Duffey threw for three touchdowns, including a 95-yarder to Hezekiah Grimsley as Hampton defeated Howard 48-32 before 14,000 fans on Saturday in the inaugural Truth and Service Classic. The 95-yard hookup from Duffey…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul said that she is “deeply disturbed” by the situation at Rikers New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced that nearly 200 inmates at Rikers Island would be released during a press conference in her midtown office on Friday. The city’s first female governor, who described the holding jail as a “volatile…
Spelman and Morehouse College are advancing their efforts to empower scholars to step into the entrepreneurship space. The HBCUs recently received a $5 million grant from Mastercard to support the creation of a Center for Black Entrepreneurship. Mastercard announces $5M grant for Morehouse, Spelman to help Black entrepreneurship https://t.co/BuaGJcybIA — WSB-TV (@wsbtv) September 15, 2021…
Source: Tommaso Boddi / Getty Levar Burton has said he has no interest in hosting Jeopardy!. After that messy host selection process messy who could blame him. But for some reason, Los Angeles Times reporter Stephen Battaglio took it upon himself to enter the conversation and insert his misguided belief that Burton would jump at…
Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt is offering some words of wisdom to rising track star Sha’Carri Richardson following the young athlete’s fall from grace. During a recent interview with the New York Post, the eight-time Olympic gold medalist was asked about the 21-year-old whose stellar performance in the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials at the…
The Border Patrol graduated its first class of “processing coordinators” in January, with the goal of eventually hiring 1,200 Dozens, even hundreds, of asylum-seeking migrants often wait hours to surrender to U.S. Border Patrol agents, but the thousands of Haitians gathered at a bridge in the small Texas border town of Del Rio may be unprecedented and…
The Asian-American rapper and movie star has been called a hypocrite for vowing not to play “minstrel” roles with stereotypical Asian accents despite repeatedly using AAVE on-screen throughout her career “I refuse to do accents.” Rapper and actress Awkwafina firmly stated the above during a 2017 interview with Vice when asked if there were any…
The singer’s new liqueur brand is banned from sale in the European Union pending a dispute over naming rights with Darker Still Spirits, owner of the “Black Irish” trademark R&B icon Mariah Carey delighted many fans in August with the surprise announcement of her new line of Irish cream liqueurs, called Black Irish, in honor…
Ever since the murder of George Floyd and the protests that followed as part of America’s racial reckoning last year, Confederate monuments and statues which symbolized cultural heritage for some also presents painful reminders of America’s racist past to many Black Americans. The statues became a focal point in cities across the nation, many of…
The actor says she “left nothing out on the table” for the already released book “You Got Anything Stronger?” Gabrielle Union’s using “radical honesty” in her new book, which combines lively lighthearted stories with chapters dealing with her recovery from sexual assault, racist encounters and mental health struggles. The actor says she “left nothing out…
