Tennessee State-Jackson State match-up illustrates momentum HBCUs are experiencing Fans at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium had much to celebrate Saturday night at the first Southern Heritage Classic in two years. It’s always a party at the HBCU showcase. The two-year gap between games made fans anxious while the matchup of Tennessee State’s Eddie George and…
Kerrion Franklin made the claims as mother, Shawn Ewing, sought to assist him out house Kerrion Franklin, the eldest son of gospel artist Kirk Franklin, has accused his mother of assaulting him months after making claims that his father is verbally abusive. The 33-year-old man was recently seen on Instagram Live lodging the accusation at…
Most of the time, celebrities are using their social media platforms to share photos or promote their work, or stay in touch with fans, but every once in a while they have to defend themselves against a troll. Tiffany Haddish recently had to clap back at a troll after they made an insulting comment about…
Survivor’s guilt led Sekou Siby on a path to fight for better working conditions for restaurant workers Twenty years after 9/11, Sekou Siby still feels the pangs of survivor’s guilt. A cook and dishwasher at the World Trade Center’s Windows on the World restaurant, Siby had swapped shifts that day with a co-worker who ended…
“So much of our politics have become a naked appeal to anger, fear and resentment,” Biden says in Pennsylvania speech From an urban memorial to a remote field to the heart of the nation’s military might, President Joe Biden on Saturday paid tribute at three hallowed places of grief and remembrance to honor the lives…
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani makes an appearance in support of fellow Republican Curtis Sliwa who is running for NYC mayor on June 21, 2021, in New York City. | Source: Spencer Platt / Getty As if former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani‘s reputation post-Sept. 11 wasn’t already shaky enough, a speech…
“I had a big night last night,” Trina says revealing her engagement to Raymond Taylor, a Miami-rapper Trina is officially off the market. The Miami rapper announced that she is now engaged to rapper Raymond Taylor after he proposed Wednesday night. Trina, real name Katrina Taylor, showed off the proposal ring during a FaceTime call…
Former President George Bush shapes message as an implicit criticism of fellow Republican Trump’s brand of politics Warning that the nation was falling into division and extremism, former President George W. Bush appealed Saturday for a return to the spirit of cooperation that emerged — almost instantaneously — after the 9/11 attacks 20 years ago….
This 1977 photo shows Black Consciousness Movement founder Steve Biko. | Source: – / Getty UPDATED: 8:30 a.m. ET, Sept. 12, 2021 Originally published: Jan. 28, 2013 Legendary anti-Apartheid activist Steve Biko died on Sept. 12, 1977, as a political prisoner who was murdered by the police in South Africa because he was against the…
Source: The Washington Post / Getty A large fentanyl shipment headed from Memphis, Tennessee to Houston was seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday (September 7). According to the CBP, there were 2.85 kilos of fentanyl hidden in wooden boxes, enough to kill hundreds of thousands of people potentially. The drug has grown…
