About 85% of Americans to be eligible for the stimulus checks; millions of the payments to be disbursed within weeks Along with daylight saving time, this weekend could bring some Americans fatter bank balances. Officials at the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service said Friday that processing of the new round of stimulus payments has…
The speech extract, which President Barack Obama delivered at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 2015, will start with the phrase, ‘You are America’ Barack and Michelle Obama have revealed that an excerpt of a speech the former president delivered will be drawn into the architecture of the forthcoming Barack Obama Presidential Center, a construction project…
Source: Win McNamee / Getty Black law students at Georgetown took action after a racist viral video showed two adjunct professors engaged in an exchange that students say confirms their suspicions. While Sandra Sellers‘ relationship with Georgetown Law School was terminated Thursday, some students say the school delayed in acting. Slate reported the school did…
Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty Almost a month since a winter storm slammed through the gulf states, residents in Jackson, Mississippi, were still waiting for water service to be restored entirely. The city restored water service to a majority of residents, including those who have well water connections. However, its 43,000 surface water connections…
Source: ELMER MARTINEZ / Getty A high school basketball announcer was caught on a hot mic hatefully directing the N-word at players as they kneeled during the playing of the national anthem before the contest started. And that’s not even the most shocking part of the story. Matt Rowan, the suspected white supremacist who owns…
“Basketball Wives” star and executive producer Shaunie O’Neal candidly discussed in an interview with “The Tamron Hall Show” on March 12 why many cast members aren’t married. Shaunie also opened up about how her “creative” ideas were overshadowed by her marriage to former NBA player Shaquille O’Neal. The mother of five began by saying although she had a…
Source: Boston Globe / Getty This time last year, Breonna Taylor lived not as a hashtag or social justice martyr, but as a Black woman enjoying the youthful essence of her life. There were days where she was just a daughter, or a sister. A day dedicated to her partner, and to working as an…
Source: Jason Armond / Getty One year ago today, Breonna Taylor was murdered by Louisville police officers who sprayed her home with bullets while she lay in bed asleep. She was murdered in the same place where she manifested the dreams she was working so hard to turn into her reality. But all of those…
There’s nothing like having some fun in the sun, and that’s exactly what Ayesha Curry and her husband Stephen Curry did recently. On Thursday, March 11, Ayesha uploaded five photos of the two of them enjoying each other on the beach. In the first photo, the two are lying on the sand, and Ayesha is…
Cyn Santana is out with the old and in with the new — hair color, that is. On March 11, she shared with her fans that she ditched her black tresses for a new lime green look. Wanting all eyes to be on her, she kept the camera at an angle that was close up to…
