OPINION: “Black trauma has a direct relationship with Black spending, lack of savings, and aversion to investing” – Rahkim Sabree. Acknowledging the issues around a lack of financial literacy is one problem, but it’s not the only issue that impacts Black dollars. As a financial empowerment coach, I’ve been leaning into a less popular but…
Shenita Russie, 42, a medical worker from Little Rock, caught the virus while helping others in Boston at the pandemic’s beginning. A woman who worked on the frontlines of medicine helping coronavirus patients has been hit with nearly $1 million in medical bills after recovering from a severe bout of COVID-19. Shenita Russie, 42, a…
T.I. defended DaBaby by comparing him to Lil Nas X This past weekend during a performance at the Rolling Loud Festival held at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, rapper DaBaby went an reported homophobic rant that stunned audience members. Now, fellow rapper T.I. – who is no stranger to controversy himself – is coming…
Gabrielle Union’s big chop debut on Friday, July 23, had fans doing a double take as they mistook the actress for “Love & Hip Hop: New York” reality star Juju Castaneda. In the initial post, Union disclosed how empowered she felt making the change during a good time in her life. The 48-year-old said as she shared a stream…
The conversation surrounding Sha’Carri Richardson’s disqualification from the Tokyo Olympics following a failed drug test continues after another athlete promoted her usage of and a new line of a slightly different substance at this year’s event. Though Richardson was absent from the 2020 games, which started on Friday, July 23, she was definitely a trending topic…
The rapper took directly to Twitter to speak to his haters, calling them out for homophobic rhetoric and highlighting the double standard when it comes to themes and imagery in Hip-Hop Lil Nas X is not here for the homophobia. The rapper took to Twitter over the weekend to respond to backlash from his “Industry…
The TikTok clip shows Ronnie Marie Paiva, owner of Marie’s Luxury Hair Extensions, making a delivery to a client in Sacramento. A recent encounter between two women is going viral on TikTok after one of the women, who is white, asked the other, who is Black, if she is dealing drugs in a public park. …
A chance encounter between a motivational speaker and a piano player at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport was anything but ordinary. Tonee Carter is a regular fixture at the airport where he plays the piano almost everyday in Concourse A. Among the small audience that day was Instagram influencer and self-professed “hope dealer” Carlos Whitaker, who was…
Rae surprised fans Monday morning with the announcement on social media that she and Diame had wed in the south of France. Actress-writer-producer Issa Rae surprised fans Monday morning with the announcement that she and longtime boyfriend Louis Diame were married this weekend in the south of France. In a clever Instagram post early Monday,…
“The challenge is — I’m going to be very frank — the laws were written very poorly, and the combination of them…has led to there being conflicts in clarity,” a police chief said. Washington state is embarking on a massive experiment in police reform and accountability following the racial justice protests that erupted after George…
