Bonnie Pointer, a Grammy-winning singer best known as an original member of the popular 70’s disco group The Pointer Sisters, died Monday morning (Jun 8). She was 69 years old. TMZ reports: Her sister, Anita, tells TMZ, “It is with great sadness that I have to announce to the …
Read More »Minneapolis City Council Vows To Dismantle Police Department
The Minneapolis City Council voted on Sunday (June 7) to dismantle the city’s police department after concluding that more attempts to reform the force would not work. Nine of the 13 council members voted in favor of the decision, which constitutes a veto-proof majority, Council President Lisa Bender told CNN. …
Read More »A US recession began in February in the face of coronavirus
In this April 30, 2020 file photo, a man writes information in front of Illinois Department of Employment Security in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File) WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy entered a recession in February as the coronavirus struck the nation, a group of economists declared Monday, ending …
Read More »Master Real Estate Investor Explains How To Turn Real Estate Equity Into Cash Flow
COVID-19 has hammered or imperiled everything from the likes of Wall Street companies to Main Street entrepreneurs in America, wreaking havoc on the nation’s economy. But master real estate investor Joseph Asamoah has defied the pandemic by sticking to a business model that has worked for over 25 years. His approach …
Read More »Amidst Black Lives Matter Protests, Prince's Estate Releases Lyric Video for 2015 Song About Police Brutality
Photo: Kevin Winter (Getty Images) In honor of what would have been his 62nd birthday on June 7, Prince’s estate released the lyric video for his 2015 song commemorating the black victims of police brutality titled “Baltimore.” The video was released in response to the recent wave of Black Lives …
Read More »This Upheaval Is How America Gets Better
America’s standing in the world was damaged by Jim Crow, a segregated military fighting World War II, resistance to school integrations, the My Lai massacre, and the torture of prisoners after 9/11. Americans are not good at getting things right at the outset; we are good at making things right …
Read More »‘Justice Now: A BET Town Hall’ With Stacey Abrams And More
As protests rage for the 13th straight day over the repeated and habitual police killings of Black people, BET is unpacking this historic moment with a primetime town hall on social justice on Sunday (June 7). Justice Now: A BET Town Hall, hosted by Marc Lamont Hill, assembled a diverse …
Read More »30 Days of Iconic Music Video Blackness With VSB, Day 7: TLC, 'Waterfalls'
Photo: Scott Gries (ImageDirect) To call TLC’s “Waterfall” video iconic is almost underselling it. This award-winning video owned MTV back when that was a thing worthy of note and did it while addressing social issues like violence and HIV-awareness. The video stayed true to concept, used some CGI and showed …
Read More »Raymond Santana And Deelishis Get Married In Georgia
Congratulations are in order for Raymond Santana and Deelishis! The couple tied the knot on Saturday in Georgia, six months after they got engaged, in December 2019. Santana, one of the exonerated men from the “Central Park Five,” shared photos and video from their special day on Instagram. His bride, …
Read More »<em>I May Destroy You </em>Explodes the Idea of Consent
A writer less volcanically talented than Coel might struggle to weave one of these themes into a 12-part series; that she’s able to explore so many different layers of power while creating such a compulsively watchable show is striking. In the first episode, which debuts today on HBO, Arabella returns …
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