Music innovator Pharrell Williams has used his nonprofit Black Ambition as an avenue to uplift and empower historically marginalized communities, and the Virginia native is pushing his efforts to support Black and Latinx founders forward. According to CNN, Williams recently awarded $1 million to a Black-owned tech startup. Congratulations Livegistics! We’re excited to announce that…
The government of Guyana announced in June that it would formally recognize scholar Dr. Walter Rodney 41 years after he was assassinated and clarify the circumstances surrounding his death. Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall said in a statement that the government would honor Rodney by changing details on his death certificate…
Tiny Harris received the sweetest birthday gift from her youngest daughter Heiress Harris in the form of an original song created just for the Xscape singer. The 5-year-old daughter of Harris and her husband, rapper T.I., has been following in her mother’s musical footsteps by enthusiastically taking vocal lessons and it sounds like they’re already…
A Black Syracuse, New York, police officer who filed a notice of claim last month against the Syracuse Police Department believes the department is retaliating against him after he was reprimanded for a February Facebook post featuring music with “profane” lyrics. The reprimand came days after he filed a notice of claim in late June…
Authorities in Atlanta credit the public for reporting the incident, leading to arrests On Saturday, three people were arrested in connection with a viral video that captured a child being hit and verbally taunted over his sexuality, according to WSB-TV. The video was posted online a month ago. The Atlanta Police Department has now arrested…
After a former president’s jailing, South Africa experiences its worst rioting in nearly three decades South Africa’s leader went to Johannesburg’s Soweto township Sunday to view badly damaged shopping centers where people were trampled to death in rioting sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma. President Cyril Ramaphosa toured the Ndofaya Mall in…
Bobby Roundtree, who was injured in a swimming accident, died in the Tampa area where he was living Former Illinois football star Bobby Roundtree, who was paralyzed from the waist down in a swimming accident two years ago, died Friday, the university said. He was 23. Illinois said Roundtree, a Florida native, died in the…
Transgender rights advocates and detractors clashed outside Wi Spa in Los Angeles Police arrested several dozen people and fired non-lethal projectiles to disperse an unruly crowd on Saturday after a dueling protest over transgender rights at a Los Angeles spa turned violent. The protests stemmed from a video that circulated online earlier this month, in…
“Winning this competition is bigger than just the prize money,” co-founder Justin Turk says as he looks to scale Livegistics Pharrell Williams has named Black tech entrepreneurs Justin Turk and Andre Davis the grand prize recipients of his Black Ambition initiative. The two will receive $1 million for their company, Livegistics, the company announced in…
Martine Moïse, the wife of Haiti’s assassinated president who was injured in the July 7 attack at their private home, returned to the Caribbean nation on Saturday following her release from a Miami hospital. Her arrival was unannounced and surprised many in the country of more than 11 million people still reeling from the killing…
