“I like to make little girls feel beautiful,” says 6-year-old Lily Adeleye. Lily is the one of the youngest Black executives to have a brand in two major retail stores after her accessories brand Lily Frilly was picked up by Walmart after about two years in Target. Lily turning to entrepreneurship is no surprise as her…
Burkina Faso’s security sector is undertrained and ill-equipped to disrupt the expansive network of recruiters, traffickers, and pimps For months, human traffickers beat and drugged Blessing, hauling the 27-year-old from one gold mine encampment to the next, where each night she was forced to sleep with dozens of men for less than $2 a person….
“It doesn’t bring my son back,” said Serina Rides, Al-Amin’s mother Michael Adams, the man accused of murdering teenager Elijah Al-Amin inside a Circle K convenience store in Peoria, Arizona in July 2019 was found dead inside his jail cell, according to Newsweek. Adams had been awaiting trial at the 4th Avenue Jail in Phoenix…
Biden is scheduled to visit New Orleans and Lake Charles on Thursday President Joe Biden plans two stops in Louisiana next week to rally support for his proposed infrastructure plan, the White House said in a statement Saturday. Read More: Cornel West says Obama didn’t have ‘courage’ to fight racism—but Biden does Biden is scheduled…
Almost anyone can agree that saving and investing your money is an important thing to learn as early as you can. Ciara and Russell Wilson decided to not only school almost 900 students from Seattle’s Denny International Middle School on the subject but also leave them with a little gift. As a way to honor…
The investigation into the theft of Sheskey’s weapon did not begin until April, seven months after it happened The white police officer who shot Jacob Blake in Wisconsin last summer was suspended for three days this year because his service weapon was stolen just weeks after the shooting that left the Black man partially paralyzed. Officials waited…
Only a fraction of India’s population will be able to afford the prices charged by private hospitals for the shot In hopes of taming a monstrous spike in COVID-19 infections, India opened vaccinations to all adults Saturday, launching a huge inoculation effort that was sure to tax the limits of the federal government, the country’s…
Social equity has been a selling point for marijuana legalization in many states, but so far the goals have far outstripped realities Terrence Hewing was working for a package delivery company in 2007 when police approached his cargo van in suburban Denver. He was early for a pickup, and someone out for a walk called…
Ne-Yo brought the Mother’s Day love a few weeks early by gifting his wife, Crystal Smith, on Wednesday, April 28, with a limited-edition Bentley. Smith shared the news by uploading highlighted clips with the singer’s single “Money Can’t Buy” on her Instagram Reel — 15-second multi-clip video — with the caption, “So this just happened .” The expectant mother also expressed…
The path to DC statehood just got more dim A long-shot bid to pass legislation that would make the District of Columbia the nation’s 51st state got a little longer on Friday. Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia said that he opposes unilateral action by Congress to make the nation’s capital a state and…
