The acting sensation and iconic tennis star have joined with others to help aspiring entrepreneurs from HBCUs launch businesses. Actor Michael B. Jordan has partnered with tennis legend Serena Williams to give aspiring entrepreneurs who are students or alumni of HBCUs a chance to win up to $1 million. Through an endowment from Jordan’s firm…
Tia Mowry‘s fashion video featuring her family on Monday, Oct. 18, went left when fans zoomed in on the attire of her husband, Cory Hardrict. The actor was singled out because he didn’t quite follow the all-black memo everyone was wearing. Tia Mowry’s (right) fashion video with her family: Cory Hardrict (far left), Cairo Hardrict…
Source: Bettmann / Getty Between 1979 and 1981 at least 29 Black children were killed in the city of Atlanta. The horrific string of killings was dubbed the “Atlanta Child Murders.” Police arrested Wayne Williams, a suspect in the child murders, on June 21, 1981. He was later convicted for the murder of two adults,…
“She should not be able to go to the bus stop and just get killed like that,” said the grieving stepson of Cleopatra Johnson, who was found dead Friday. An Arizona woman was shot and killed as she waited for a bus Friday night. The body of Cleopatra Johnson, 45, was found at a bus…
Kanye West is making some major changes to himself. On Monday, Oct. 18, the Grammy Award-winning rapper took to his Instagram page where he debuted his new haircut–a series of shaved sections throughout his head. In the snap, West sported a silver shirt and a platinum chain featuring his son Saint’s name in block letters….
McCain’s new memoir, ‘Bad Republican’, will be released on audible this week It’s been months since Meghan McCain‘s much talked about exit from The View, and she already has plenty to say about her tenure on the talk show. In an excerpt from her new memoir, the conservative host opens up about her reasons for…
Michael Hetle, a former police officer who later became an executive for NASA, has been found guilty of first-degree murder for killing his Black neighbor. Hetle, who is white, had reportedly been feuding with 24-year-old Javon Prather for years. The former cop — who killed two people in the line of duty — claimed authorities…
Most of the headlines for news articles about Colin Powell‘s death included the fact that he died following complications from COVID-19. But buried deeper in the story is the fact that the war hero who was also the first Black U.S. secretary of state had been suffering from multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood…
The Oscar award-winning actor is accused of violating three different women in Manhattan Cuba Gooding Jr. will go on trial in February in his New York City groping case, a judge said Monday, with prosecutors planning to portray the actor as a serial offender and the defense contending the case is an example of #MeToo…
The report from the World Meteorological Organization and other agencies is a grim reminder that Africa’s 1.3 billion people remain “extremely vulnerable” as the continent warms more Africa’s rare glaciers will disappear in the next two decades because of climate change, a new report warned Tuesday amid sweeping forecasts of pain for the continent that…
