The majority of the league’s 20,000 retirees are Black Thousands of retired Black professional football players, their families and supporters are demanding an end to the controversial use of “race-norming” to determine which players are eligible for payouts in the NFL’s $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims, a system experts say is discriminatory. Former…
“Kobe has always been my favorite athlete,” says Jaycee Horn, who wore No. 1 with the South Carolina Gamecocks When Carolina Panthers first-round draft pick Jaycee Horn learned the NFL would let cornerbacks wear single-digit numbers this season, his jersey choice became easy. He selected No. 8 to honor his childhood hero, Kobe Bryant. “Kobe…
Weaver was 11 when he interviewed Obama for 10 minutes The student reporter who gained national acclaim when he interviewed President Barack Obama at the White House in 2009 has died of natural causes, his family says. Read More: Obama family dog, Bo, has died: ‘We said goodbye to our best friend’ Damon Weaver was…
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says the nation is “over the hump” on gas shortages after a ransomware attack on the largest U.S. gasoline pipeline Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says the nation is “over the hump” on gas shortages following a ransomware cyberattack that forced a shutdown of the nation’s largest gasoline pipeline. Problems peaked Thursday…
After sparking speculation about his future with CNN, Don Lemon announced Saturday his show will be rebranded “Don Lemon Tonight” Don Lemon made a shocking announcement Friday night, stating that last night’s episode of “CNN Tonight with Don Lemon” would be the last. He later came out to clear the air about his cloudy future….
Clifford “T.I.” Harris‘s daughter Heiress Harris had fans hollering on May 14, after the rapper shared a video of the 5-year-old correcting an instructor for calling him “dad” instead of what she deemed was his proper name: TIP. The “Live Your Life” lyricist used the recording to promote Heiress’s latest episode of “Heiress does it…
Early reviews have declared the series a triumph and something only Jenkins could have pulled off When Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins was considering adapting Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the Underground Railroad into a limited series, he kept hearing the same thing: Impossible. It would be emotionally and mentally draining, Jenkins knew. And he…
Source: Stefani Reynolds / Getty Republican Sen. Tim Scott has refused to budge from his position on qualified immunity, holding up federal action on legislation centered on police reform in America. He, along with Democrats Sen. Cory Booker and Rep. Karen Bass, is working through various elements of policing and prosecution. The three lawmakers, all…
Beatty was a leading figure in the fight for racial equality Attorney and former state lawmaker Otto Beatty Jr., a leading figure in the fight for racial equality in Ohio, has died at 81. His wife, U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty, announced his death on Twitter on Friday, calling him “a devoted father, grandfather, amazing husband…
An aerial view of smoke rising from smoldering rubble from multiple homes in a Philadelphia neighborhood following the police bombing of MOVE headquarters on May 13, 1985. | Source: Bettmann / Getty Families of victims from the decades-old deadly police bombing of a Black liberation group’s headquarters in Philadelphia experienced a whirlwind this week with…
