Michael Johnson told The Weather Channel rebuilding his own home was not enough Ten months ago, Hurricanes Laura and Delta devastated the community of Calcasieu Parish in southwest Louisiana. As the cleanup began, one father told The Weather Channel’s Tevin Wooten that repairing his own home wasn’t enough. Michael Johnson said that destruction from the…
The comedian showed his quarantine film ‘Dave Chappelle: This Time This Place’ to a standing ovation NEW YORK (AP) — Fifteen months after shuttering for the pandemic, New York’s Radio City Music Hall reopened its doors Saturday for the Tribeca Festival premiere of a new Dave Chappelle documentary for a full-capacity, fully-vaccinated audience. The debut…
The league’s usual suspects have been moved aside by a new crop of stars in the making and a move outside of East/West coast dominance A Game 7 thriller, the NBA’s first do-or-die game to go to overtime in 15 years, came down to a matter of inches. If Brooklyn star Kevin Durant was just…
“My father is intelligent, loving and resilient. He loves his children more than life itself. He meets every expectation of what a father should be,” said his daughter Richeda Ashmeade was just 12-years-old when her father was incarcerated. In light of Father’s Day, she reflected on their last day together. “We were laying down and…
More than 60 years after he was denied enrollment into a medical program at a private university because of the color of his skin, a Georgia doctor is receiving a long-time coming apology. In 1959, Marion Hood applied to be a student at Emory University in the busy city of Atlanta. However, less than a…
Opinion: This year on Father’s Day, I exist in an abundance of love because of what grief came to teach me This Father’s Day feels vastly different from the previous. Yet, the two are intimately interconnected, as one informs the other. I can recall the many complex layers of grief I was experiencing in June…
After a year of protests over police brutality, some Republican-controlled states have ignored or blocked police-reform proposals, moving instead in the other direction by granting greater powers to officers, making it harder to discipline them and expanding their authority to crack down on demonstrations. The sponsors of the GOP measures acted in the wake of…
Longtime music exec Dame Dash is being sued by the very record label he co-founded for allegedly trying to sell the copyright to Jay-Z’s debut album “Reasonable Doubt” as a non-fungible token, also known as an NFT. According to Page Six, the lawsuit was filed on Friday, June 18, in New York’s Southern District Court…
It’s unclear whether the crash was intentional or accidental, authorities say A driver slammed into spectators Saturday evening at the start of a Pride parade in South Florida, killing one man and seriously injuring another, authorities said. Some witnesses said the crash appeared to be an intentional act, but Fort Lauderdale Police Detective Ali Adamson…
Source: Michael A. McCoy / Getty Every once in a while, I imagine myself watching the news with Frederick Douglass to gauge American progress since his era. When he heard Juneteenth was just made a national holiday, y’all should’ve seen his face. I gather it was a slight distortion of the same expression he had…
