The road to motherhood had been a rough one for actress Gabrielle Union. After suffering multiple miscarriages, unsuccessful experiences with IVF, and eventually being diagnosed with adenomyosis — a disease that could sometimes cause infertility — Union and her husband Dwyane Wade welcomed a sweet baby girl, Kaavia James Union Wade, by way of a surrogate….
NBA star Joel Embiid is on a mission to combat homelessness. According to the Philadelphia 76ers, the Cameroon native has pledged to make a huge donation to homeless shelters in the Philadelphia area. .@JoelEmbiid announced today that he will donate his winnings from Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game to Philadelphia homeless shelters, including Project HOME, Sunday Breakfast…
Hollywood Foreign Press Association commits to adding Black members and increasing transparency around operations Facing heightened scrutiny arounds its membership and practices, the group behind the Golden Globe Awards says that it is committed to immediate “transformational change” and reforms. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association said in a statement Saturday that it would focus on…
Having children changes a person, but the bond between a father and his daughter arguably is unmatched. Recently, rapper Ludacris shared a lesson he learned while being a father to his girls. On Friday, March 5, the “Fast & Furious” star uploaded an adorable clip of himself and his two youngest children, 7-year-old Cai Bella and 5-year-old…
This year’s commemoration comes as some states seek to roll back ballot access, while advocates desire to restore a key part of the Voting Rights Act The commemoration of a pivotal moment in the fight for voting rights for African Americans is honoring four giants of the civil rights movement who lost their lives in…
School officials and local police are investigating after a Black woman claimed that her 13-year-old son was subjected to severe bullying and abuse at the hands of his peers at a Texas middle school, culminating last month with the boy being forced to drink urine at a sleepover party. Summer Smith wrote in a lengthy…
‘Threatening to call the cops on a Black man in this country is you declaring your willingness to see him killed,’ Selwyn Seyfu Hinds tweeted Screenwriter and former editor-in-chief of The Source, Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, has called out Citibank on Twitter after being racially profiled at one of their local branches in Los Angeles. The…
The former music manager has slammed comparisons between the singer and his famous daughter Actress and singer Halle Bailey has come to her sister’s defense after Chloe Bailey was dragged by Mathew Knowles, the father and former manager of Beyonce. “How amazing is it that @ChloeBailey is already an icon,” Halle wrote on Friday. how…
The Rochester Police Department is under fire again for repeating excessive force practices, pepper-spraying a Black mother while her three-year-old daughter stood by. According to The Appeal police were called to a local drug store on Feb. 22 where the woman was accused of stealing. Cops approached the woman while she walked down the street…
The 76ers stars are suspected to have been exposed to COVID-19 by a barber Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons have been ruled out of Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game in Atlanta because of a coronavirus contact tracing issue, the league announced about eight hours before tipoff. Embiid and Simmons are in Atlanta, though it was…
