“Insecure” actor and activist Kendrick Sampson was recently the subject of police brutality on Dec. 15 during a trip to Cartagena, Colombia. Sampson shared disturbing footage of police of him being accosted and assaulted by a police officer who eventually brandished his gun. The video was taken by someone who witnessed the event from…
“Red Table Talk” hosts Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith and Adrienne Banfield-Norris played the “This or That” challenge that has become popular on TikTok. For the challenge, as the tune “Tricky” by Run DMC plays, people put up pairs of opposing choices in any categories they like and walk to the side of the choice…
Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has taken responsibility for last week’s kidnapping of hundreds of schoolboys from a school in north-western Nigeria. Gunmen descended upon the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara on Friday, Dec. 11, and carried out a mass kidnapping. About 330 of the school’s 800 students remain missing, although some were able to…
Congratulations are in order for Zonnique Pullins as she and her boyfriend, rapper Bandhunta Izzy, have welcomed their first child together. The news was announced on Dec. 15 by Pullins’s co-host Romeo Miller on their millennial/Gen-z talk show called “The Mix.” In the video clip for the FOX Soul show, Romeo says, “somebody’s missing as…
Dorielis Reyes-Paula spent the last few months of her life battling brain inflammation and body paralysis due to COVID-19 A young child who passed away due to COVID-19 complications is helping doctors learn more about the virus and how it impacts children. Read More: Negotiators make progress on long-delayed COVID-19 aid bill Dorielis Reyes-Paula was…
Another streaming provider has honored Dave Chappelle’s request to remove his popular sketch show from its platform. HBO Max, an extension of the premium cable service provider HBO, will no longer offer “Chappelle’s Show” to its viewers by the end of the year, Variety reports. HBO and HBO Max’s chief content officer Casey Bloys made the…
Eva Marcille got her fans in the holiday spirit on Dec. 9 after she uploaded images from her annual family photo shoot. Marcille shared a stream of images, including a group snapshot of the family posing for the camera. The former television personality’s other pic showed her three kids Marley Rae,6, Michael Todd, 2, and…
The film is set to be released in Thanksgiving 2022 A biopic of “The Voice” was bought by Sony this August, and now they’ve found someone to play the iconic singer. Naomi Ackie will play Whitney Houston in I Wanna Dance with Somebody, a biopic on the late legend’s life. According to Deadline, Ackie is…
A Black Michigan man who spent nearly four decades in prison following his 1983 conviction for arson and murder was exonerated last month after a key witness admitted she fabricated her testimony. In 1982, when Walter Forbes was a full-time student at Michigan’s Jackson Community College, he broke up a fight at a bar. The…
Big Sean said that he would not ‘even be alive if I didn’t have the right mentors in my life’ in an exclusive with theGrio It’s not often that upcoming artists in the early stages of their music journey can say that they have been mentored by some of the top artists in the industry. …
