Chicago rapper and Chief Keef associate Tray Savage is dead after he was shot Friday morning (Jun. 19) while he was driving in the city’s infamous South Side area. According to Chicago police, Savage had just dropped his girlfriend off in the 8100 block of South Evans Avenue in …

Whether companies and governments get it right or not, black-led celebrations will remain the heart of Juneteenth. Early events venerated black Civil War veterans and were mainly held in private places that could be shielded from the white gaze. Later ones were marked by reunions, parades, and symbolic foods such …

Hurricane Chris has reportedly been arrested for murder following a dispute with another man at a Texaco gas station in Louisiana. According to KTBS, the 31-year-old Shreveport, Louisiana rapper—whose real name is Christopher Jerrod Dooley Jr.—initially told police he shot and killed a man early Friday morning (Jun. 19) …

Kentucky’s Attorney General Daniel Cameron has still not reached a decision on whether or not to charge the cops who shot Breonna Taylor, saying on Thursday (June 18) that he would not bow to pressure, like letters from Beyonce, while trying to conduct his investigation.  “’We are working around the …

Brett Hankison, one of the three Louisville police officers involved in the tragic shooting death of Breonna Taylor, has been fired. Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer announced the firing on Friday (Jun. 19). In a letter to the disgraced officer, interim police Chief Robert Schroeder said Hankison “violated obedience to …

At Black Enterprise, we celebrate Black businesses every day of the year. But as we pause to celebrate Juneteenth—and as much of the nation joins us for the first time—we feel there’s no better time to recommit ourselves to the fight for economic equality; to show support for our communities’ …

Photo: Alex Wong (Getty Images) Here are a couple questions: Why is y’all’s president so raggedy? Why can’t literally anybody in this ghetto ass administration keep him off social media? On Thursday, Donald “I Put Juneteenth on the Map” Trump took to Twitter and other platforms to take another shot …

The American restaurant as you knew it died on March 19. That’s the day Governor Gavin Newsom issued a stay-in order to the citizens of California, the first in a 50-state cascade that brought to an end one of the most momentous and successful runs in the industry’s history. Sure, …

On the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth, when news of the Emancipation Proclamation finally reached enslaved people in Texas, Black Americans are still fighting to be treated as equals in this country. As our community faces the disproportionate impact of COVID-19, continued unjust killings at the hands of the police and …

Raven-Symoné is a married woman! In a series of Instagram posts, the 34-year-old actress/producer announced the news on Thursday (June 18) first by teasing that something big had just happened to her.  “So something happened this week, that has changed my life FOR THE BETTER!” she captioned a picture of …