Uncle Nearest, a rapidly growing Tennessee-based whiskey brand, recently closed on a $2.1 million deal that expands its footprint from 270 acres to 323.12 acres. The 53.12-acre purchase near Highway 231 in Nashville will help the brand expand into farm distilling, as 100 acres will be used to grow organic non-GMO corn. Uncle Nearest has…
Source: New York Daily News Archive / Getty UPDATED: 11:30 a.m. ET, Aug. 9, 2021 Although nearly a quarter of a century has passed since the NYPD’s brutal beating and savage sexual assault of Black Haitian immigrant Abner Louima, the incident sparked a public outrage that still resonates to this day. Standing as one of…
In the video, Ciara lip-syncs to Kevin Hart’s stand-up joke in which he talks about being his “best friend.” Ciara and Vanessa Bryant are breaking the internet today. The two recorded a cute “Best Friend” TikTok, which is blowing up the web with thousands of likes and comments. From celebrities like Lizzo to Lil Nas…
Commenters on Twitter appeared split on whether Morhad Amdouni did the act on purpose or if it was an accident. French long-distance runner Morhad Amdouni is being blasted for what appears to be an act of poor sportsmanship during one of the last events of the Tokyo Olympics. During the men’s marathon, Amdouni is seen…
Edgerrin James, the Indianapolis Colts’ former star running back, talked about the biases he had to overcome throughout his career. This weekend’s NFL Hall of Fame induction ceremony featured several engaging moments from its newest members, first-rate athletes who were presented with gold jackets and bronze busts carved in their respective likenesses. Indianapolis Colts’ former…
Olympic gold medalist Tamyra Mensah-Stock disclosed on Friday, Aug. 7, during an interview with PEOPLE magazine that she plans to purchase her mother, Shonda Wells, a food truck because of the immense support she has received from Wells on her journey to victory. This initial interview comes after Mensah-Stock became the first Black woman to win an Olympic gold…
“It’s just guaranteed that it’s going to get worse,” said the global warming report co-author Linda Mearns. “Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.” Earth is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to prevent, according to a report released Monday…
An anti-lynching bill stalled in the Senate last year after Sen. Rand Paul singlehandedly kept it from passing into law. “The last recording lynching in the United States was in 1981,” says Jill Collen Jefferson, who founded a civil rights organization named after late activist great Julian Bond. But she told The Washington Post in…
Whitney Houston performs in Las Vegas for the 2004 World Music Awards. | Source: Kevin Winter / Getty UPDATED: 10:00 a.m. ET, Aug. 9, 2021 NewsOne remembers Whitney Houston on Monday, Aug. 9, on what would have been the superstar with the mellifluous voice’s 58th birthday. And now that Whitney has gone to glory, here…
A video from Erykah Badu’s Instagram Story showed her on the dance floor with the Obamas before it was removed. Pictures from the star-studded birthday bash for former President Barack Obama are slowly leaking online, revealing what A-listers attended the private event on Martha’s Vineyard. The guest list for the ex-president’s 60th birthday party was…
