This squad, organized by geography, was pandemic prompted: NFL officials drove to games. An all-Black officiating team took to the field for the first time last night to oversee ESPN’s Monday Night Football match between the Los Angeles Rams and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. “This historic Week 11 crew is a testament to the countless…
EXCLUSIVE: The author says the inspiration for his newest book, ‘We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility, came in May after the killing of George Floyd “I have never been more hopeful than I am right now.” Marc Lamont Hill said the inspiration for his newest book, We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and…
The State Department said Wolf’s “certificate of ascertainment” has been sent to the national archivist in Washington Democrat Joe Biden has been certified as the winner of the presidential election in Pennsylvania, culminating three weeks of vote counting and a string of failed legal challenges by President Donald Trump, state officials said Tuesday. The Pennsylvania…
On Monday, the General Services Administration notified President-elect Joe Biden that the Trump administration is ready to begin the transition process. The letter, sent to Biden by GSA chief Emily Murphy to Biden on Monday, comes more than two weeks after Biden was projected the winner of the 2020 presidential election. Although President Donald Trump…
The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services could prove vital in changing the tide of distrust between Black communities who have historically experienced health disparities due to 400 years of systemic racism. The calls for President-elect Joe Biden to nominate a Black person for the cabinet post has grown louder, especially in…
The 2020 People’s Choice Awards took place on Sunday, Nov. 15, and Tiffany Haddish left fans stunned after she posted her beautiful look for the event. The photo uploaded to Instagram shows Haddish wearing a high-slit, multi-colored dress, designed by Prabal Gurung, as she hits a fierce pose on a wooden staircase. Haddish’s fans took…
Wednesday marked two weeks since internal war got underway between the Ethiopian military and armed rebel forces in the nation’s Tigray region. The clashes in the northern Ethiopia sector have caused a humanitarian crisis with nearly 30,000 distressed refugees crossing into Sudan to escape the violence, according to United Nations officials. Ethiopian refugees who fled…
Biden has named Linda Thomas-Greenfield and Shuwanza Goff to prominent posts in his administration President-elect Joe Biden has named veteran diplomat Linda Thomas-Greenfield as U.N. ambassador to the United Nations and Shuwanza Goff as deputy director of the Office of Legislative Affairs. By choosing two prominent Black women to join his forthcoming administration, Biden is…
Dre wants to subpoena those 20 people to prove Nicole Young wasn’t ‘coerced’ into signing a pre-nup. In new court documents, legendary hip-hop producer Andre “Dr. Dre” Young is requesting the names, current addresses and telephone numbers of everyone who attended his wedding to Nicole Young in 1996. The couple married in Hawaii in front…
R&B star Jeremih is on the road to recovery after contracting the novel coronavirus earlier this month. The “Birthday Sex” singer, whose real name is Jeremy Felton, had been placed in the intensive care unit at a Chicago hospital and was breathing with the assistance of a ventilator after falling ill with the deadly disease. Los Angeles,…
