Ferguson, Missouri, August 2014 Source: Scott Olson / Getty Everyone who took to the Ferguson, Missouri, streets beginning on Aug. 9, 2014, called 44-year-old Julia Boure, Momma Julia. “That’s who she was introduced to me as–just Momma Julia,” said Tory Russell, co-producer of this year’s production of the Urban One’s iOne Digital annual, limited-series podcast,…
Phaedra Parks attends the 2024 Critics Choice Real TV Awards at Fairmont Century Plaza on June 15 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images) A “Real Housewives of Atlanta” veteran, Phaedra Parks, keeps it real about her beauty routine in a new partnership with IT Cosmetics. Ahead of her highly anticipated return to the…
R&B singer John Legend attended the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago’s United Center on Aug. 21 in support of Democratic Party nominee Kamala Harris. However, the EGOT winner’s wife, Chrissy Teigen, missed out on a special request for her husband’s performance at the event. “I told John, if he really loves his family, he…
Captain Jason Bussert demonstrates Draft One, an AI powered software that creates police reports from body cam audio, at Oklahoma City police headquarters in May in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (Photo: Nick Oxford/AP) Prosecutors and police watchdogs have concerns about how AI could alter a fundamental document in the criminal justice system that plays a role…
Chantemekki Fortson, mother of slain Roger Fortson, a U.S. Air Force senior airman, holds a photo of her son during a June news conference with attorney Ben Crump in Atlanta. (Photo: Brynn Anderson/AP, file) Former Okaloosa County deputy Eddie Duran, 38, was charged with manslaughter with a firearm in the May 3 shooting death of…
Source: Robert Gauthier / Getty That was a great convention. But now what? Elections are about organizing and mobilizing. First, you have to organize your campaign infrastructure; recruiting, training volunteers and staff, crafting issue platforms, mapping out a strategy, building coalitions, setting up phone banks, printing walk lists for canvassers, integrating internet and mobile technologies,…
Music mogul 50 Cent, known for his immense global fan base and savvy business acumen, headlined this year’s “Earn Your Leisure” Invest Fest in Atlanta this past weekend, leveraging his popularity into both influence and financial gain. During the event, the “Many Men” artist, ever the man of the people, took a casual stroll through…
Sean “Diddy” Combs arrives at the “Pre-Grammy Gala & Salute To Industry Icons” at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in January 2020 in Beverly Hills. (Photo: Mark Von Holden/Invision/AP, file) The lawsuit by Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones — one of many filed against Sean “Diddy” Combs in the past year — is overrun with “tall tales”…
Photo: AdobeStock With an updated COVID vaccine soon available, should you get the shot now or wait for the winter? The FDA has approved an updated COVID shot for everyone 6 months old and up, which renews a now-annual quandary for Americans: Get the shot now, with the latest COVID-19 outbreak sweeping the country, or…
Coco Gauff, of the United States, reacts after scoring a point against Varvara Gracheva, of France, during the first round of the U.S. Open tennis championships Monday in New York. (Photo: Seth Wenig/AP) Gauff knew she didn’t play great in Toronto or Cincinnati in recent weeks. But she also could tell she was hitting balls…
