“Madam President, I am so excited,” said Sen. Cory Booker, clapping and calling the vote “a gift.” On Tuesday, Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville introduced an amendment eliminating federal funding for municipalities that defund the police, resulting in widespread Democratic support — and one lively eye-roll of a speech from his New Jersey counterpart. “The woke…
OPINION: AG James proved herself a champion of women, and at the same time, a slayer of male political giants who do wrong. Andrew Cuomo announced on Tuesday that he will resign as the 56th governor of New York in two weeks. Cuomo’s stunning political downfall came at the hands of a Black woman State…
Lingering health threats caused by the pandemic and a shakeup of Kelly’s defense team pushed the trial into the summer, nearly two years after he was charged After several delays, the first phase of the sex trafficking trial of R&B hitmaker R. Kelly started Monday with jury selection in New York City. Lingering health threats caused by…
Henry Mask’s co-founder is designer Richfresh, who was commissioned to design staff party uniforms. Still-popular former President Barack Obama gifted custom face masks to the attendees at his recent 60th birthday party in Martha’s Vineyard. Henry Mask reportedly sent more than 1,000 masks to the Vineyard for attendees and staff working at his big birthday…
A group of Lakeville, Minnesota, families, has filed a discrimination lawsuit against their local school district after claiming that it only allowed “Black Lives Matter” posters and did not permit signs from opposing sides such as “All Lives Matter” and “Blue Lives Matter.” In the suit filed Aug. 6 against Independent School District 194 and…
Former “Love and Hip Hop: New York” star Yandy Smith recently got inspired to try out one of the many TikTok dances created each week; however, her routine didn’t go according to plan. Still, it left plenty of material for her 6.9 million Instagram fans to giggle over. Over the weekend, the reality star shared a hilarious…
The Bahamas will receive 397,000 doses followed by Trinidad and Tobago with more than 305,000 doses The U.S. government said Wednesday that it will deliver nearly 837,000 Pfizer vaccines to Caribbean nations as the region with limited resources struggles with a spike in COVID-19 cases amid violent anti-vaccine protests. The Bahamas will receive 397,000 doses…
President Biden was asked to nominate Damian Williams to lead the Southern District of New York back in March. If confirmed, the next U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, which includes Manhattan, could make history. Damian Williams must still be confirmed by the Senate, but he could be the first African American…
Source: James Devaney / Getty “Respect” hits theaters on Friday, and anticipation for the large-scale biopic of Aretha Franklin’s life is high. From the fabulous furs Aretha was known to wear to the songs that shifted the culture and the talented ensemble cast, we have high hopes for the musical drama. The cast of “Respect”…
Republican Dade Phelan, speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, said Democrats could be compelled to return under “warrant of arrest if necessary Thirty days after Democrats left Texas to stop new voting restrictions, cracks in the standoff widened Tuesday as more began returning home from Washington, D.C., and Republicans again authorized using law enforcement…
