Andrea Pitter is in the business of making dreams come true. As the founder and designer of Pantora Bridal, she has helped countless brides realize their wedding day visions and, in the process, she’s made many of her own dreams come true, too. After more than a decade in the …

The 94th annual Academy Award nominees have been announced! King Richard—the biographical drama inspired by the life of tennis champions Serena and Venus Williams’ father—scored six nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, and Best Original Song. Upon hearing the news, Williams couldn’t …

Photo: KEREM YUCEL/AFP (Getty Images) The warrant the Minneapolis SWAT team served that led to the fatal shooting of Amir Locke was targeted at his 17-year-old cousin Mekhi Speed, reported CNN. Through surveillance footage, investigators linked Speed to a stolen car that was identified as the getaway vehicle in a …

It is an insolent cliché, almost, to note that our culture lacks the proper script for ending friendships. We have no rituals to observe, no paperwork to do, no boilerplate dialogue to crib from. Yet when Elisa Albert and Rebecca Wolff were in the final throes of their friendship, they …

If we’re being honest, the best time for financial literacy – both for personal and professional use – was yesterday. The second-best time is today. Proper money management and accounting skills can go a long way in the immediate future, and they can make the distant future far less stressful …

Virgil Abloh attends the Dior Homme Menswear Spring/Summer 2019 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on June 23, 2018 in Paris, France.Photo: Jacopo Raule for Dior (Getty Images) A new exhibition dedicated to the life and legacy of the late Virgil Abloh is coming to the Brooklyn Museum soon. …

I glanced into my teenage daughter’s bedroom one spring afternoon last year, expecting to find her staring absentmindedly at the Zoom screen that passed for high school during the pandemic. Instead, she was laughing uproariously at a video she had found. I asked her what she was looking at. “It’s …

A four-part docuseries from the History Channel and Hungry Eyes Media shatters Canada’s image as a safe harbor utopia for Black people and elucidates the little-known stories of trailblazing Black Canadians who helped build the nation.  The role of Black Canadians and their communities in Canada is something that producers …

A sizeable Black population and local government and private efforts that inspire Black entrepreneurship make the “Mid-Atlantic pocket” a hot spot for those businesses. Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware were cited as notably advantageous for Black businesses as they respectively landed the No. 1, 2,  and 5 spots with the best …

Photo: Kyle Robertson/ Columbus Dispatch If at first you don’t succeed, try and get rejected again. On Jan. 12th, the Ohio Supreme Court rejected legislative maps drawn by Ohio Republican lawmakers, stated they were “unconstitutional,” and set a 10-day deadline “to redraw lines that don’t gerrymander districts.” According to the …