Image: Instagram As black travelers explore more and more of the country, there has been a desire to help visitors interact with more black-owned companies in the different places they visit. For Candy Lowe, the opportunity presented a chance to show off her side of Florida to visitors and that …
Read More »Trump suspends travel between US and Europe amid coronavirus pandemic
US President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the Oval Office about the widening coronavirus crisis on March 11, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Trump said the US will suspend all travel from Europe for the next 30 days. Since December 2019, coronavirus (COVID-19) has infected more than 109,000 people …
Read More »VIDEO: Utah Jazz Player Rudy Gobert Rubs Hands All Over Mics at Press Conference Before Coronavirus Diagnosis
Video footage has surfaced showing Utah Jazz player Rudy Gobert groaning and rubbing his hands all over the microphones Monday (Mar. 9) at a press conference at Zions Bank Basketball Campus in Salt Lake City, Utah prior to him testing positive for COVID-19 aka coronavirus. Utah Jazz player Rudy …
Read More »Fair Worker Gets Hands and Unemployed After Calling Guest the N-Word
Under no circumstances is it okay for a white person to drop the hard-R. It’s a one-way ticket to catching all of the hands. A fair worker learned that the hard way when he tried it and wound up both beat and broke. According to NBC News, a ride operator …
Read More »Vanessa Bryant Shares Family Photo At Kobe And Gianna Mural
Vanessa Bryant is showing incredible strength as she continues to grieve the sudden loss of her husband Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna. On Monday (March 9), Bryant shared a touching photo on Instagram posing with her three daughters, Natalia, Bianka and Capri. The four stood in front of a mural …
Read More »WNBA Star Maya Moore Helps Overturn Conviction of Man Falsely Imprisoned for Over 20 Years
Maya Moore has consistently been one of the best players in the WNBA, earning the Rookie of the Year title back in 2011, four WNBA championships, and two Olympic gold medals. However, these days she’s making an even bigger impact off the court by fighting for criminal justice reform. …
Read More »An Epic Novel Haunted by the Ghosts of Colonialism
To whom does one life belong? As the man born Abel Paisley prepares to greet death, the question takes on a sudden urgency. At the beginning of her new novel, These Ghosts Are Family, Maisy Card sketches the swindler’s portrait: Decades prior, when his friend Stanford Solomon died on the …
Read More »Watch Janelle Monáe’s Scary 'Antebellum' Trailer
Janelle Monáe is returning to the big screen in the highly anticipated thriller Antebellum, which is about a Black woman who is transported back to the Antebellum South. But expect the unexpected when it comes to this film exploring one of the most horrific eras in America’s history. The details …
Read More »Harvey Weinstein Sentenced to 23 Years in New York State Prison for Rape & Sexual Assault
Harvey Weinstein will spend the next 23 years in a New York State prison after being sentenced by Supreme Court judge James Burke Wednesday morning (Mar. 11), The Hollywood Reporter reports. Weinstein begged the judge for mercy, asking for a 5-year prison sentence Monday when his lawyers filed legal …
Read More »Kansas City Mayor Told He ‘Wasn’t In s The System’ To Vote
Moments after making a plea for people to get out and vote in the Missouri primary Tuesday, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas was turned away from the polls and told by a poll worker that he “wasn’t in the system” to cast his ballot. Lucas showed up to vote at …
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