During Monday’s (Feb. 24) memorial service for Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna, Vanessa Bryant gave a heartfelt eulogy, sharing some of her favorite moments of her late husband and beloved child. Fighting through tears at various points, the 37-year-old revealed that Kobe loved to give her gifts and one of …

An 11-year-old elementary student had to be airlifted to a hospital and received six stitches following an incident with a teacher. Last week, Kamauri Williamson, a fifth-grader at Post Elementary School in Houston, Texas, was left waiting at school with a large gash just above his eyebrow until his …

Georgia is the best state for black entrepreneurship–with Texas, Florida, California, and North Carolina rounding out the top five–according to FitSmallBusiness.com, which recently compiled the list. The study found that the top-ranking states had high numbers of African American-owned businesses as well as fair average corporate tax rates. With black-owned …

Queen and Slim actress  Jodie Turner-Smith and her husband Joshua Jackson are truly in marital bliss. A video on Turner-Smith’s Instagram page shows her singing the Dawson’s Creek theme song in Home Depot. Jackson played Pacey Witter on Dawson’s Creek from 1998 to 2003. “You couldn’t write this,” Turner-Smith wrote …

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NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson passed away yesterday morning at 101 years old. Taraji P. Henson, who played her in the Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures, honored her on social media. Henson wrote on her Instagram, “Thank you QUEEN #KatherineJohnson for sharing your intelligence, poise, grace and beauty with the world! Because …

I’d seen rich and poor America before, of course: the endless suburban wealth in places such as Atlanta, Georgia, and Austin, Texas, as well as the deprivation of Clarksdale, Mississippi. But the contrast between deindustrialized Youngstown, Ohio and reimagined Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, just an hour apart, told the story of America’s …

Snoop Dogg went viral after he attacked Gayle King in a social media video for asking WNBA player Lisa Leslie about Kobe Bryant’s past sexual assault allegations following his death. Now the rapper is speaking out on Jada Pinkett Smith‘s Red Table Talk on Facebook Watch. Snoop explained his rant …

BET’s Madison Gray is covering all the action live from the debate floor in Charleston, South Carolina. Follow the live coverage starting at 8 p.m. ET on all CBS stations and BET.  ___________________________________________________________ The End…For Now Charleston, SC 7:06 PT/ 10:06 PM Thanks for joining us and stay with BET.com for more …

Madam C.J. Walker made history as the first American woman to become a bona fide millionaire by her own doing in 1908 after selling her natural hair products for Black women. Now, her story is getting the respect it deserves on Netflix with the film Self Made: Inspired by the …