0 image: BlackBusiness.com Stephanie Hart, the owner and founder of Brown Sugar Bakery in Chicago, is buying out a historic 84-year old candy factory called Cupid Candies. To finalize the acquisition, she is using the funds from a $500,000 small business grant that she recently received from the state of …

Photo: Chip Somodevilla (Getty Images) President Trump announced on Saturday that he is nominating Amy Coney Barrett, a decidedly faith-based and conservative judge, to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death a little over a week ago. Barrett, who clerked for former Justice Antonin …

The question then becomes: How can foreign powers support the Belarusian prodemocracy movement without undermining it? Read: What Belarus learned from the rest of the world Framing dissent as a product of foreign interference is a well-tested tactic in the autocratic playbook. It’s how Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed protests …

Reigning tennis superstar Serena Williams was born in Saginaw, Michigan, on Sept. 26, 1981. She is the youngest of five girls. Williams began practicing with her father two hours a day when she was 3-years-old with her sister Venus Williams at tennis courts in Compton, California. Her father taught them …

Chris Rock is slated to host the season debut of Saturday Night Live and last night (September 25), he joined Jimmy Fallon and the Tonight Show to speak out on a myriad of topics.  Soon, the conversation turned to Cardi B, but it wasn’t really about her rap career. Rock, …

Texas teacher Lillian White was terminated from her position in Great Hearts Western Hills because she continued to wear a Black Lives Matter mask after being asked to stop. White says that she wore facial masks with slogans from the Black Lives Matter movement and that she was asked by …

Yara Shahidi’s got an exciting new gig. The actress and activist is slated to take on the role of Tinkerbell in Disney’s Peter Pan and Wendy, the studio’s latest live-action adaptation.  According to Variety, Shahidi will join a cast featuring Jude Law as Captain Hook, Alexander Molony as Peter Pan …

A remote car starter, a JACHS stretch pant sale, and a Qi charging pad lead Saturday’s best deals. Jump to: Tech | Gaming | Home | Lifestyle | Media Do you have tons of devices you’ve got to charge? Well, the RAVPower Wireless Qi charging pad is here to help. Down …

Tory Lanez’s surprise Friday night drop of his “response” to allegations he shot Megan Thee Stallion in the foot, in the form of a diss track, didn’t go over too well on the internet. And the latest to hold him to task is Keke Palmer. The actress and activist posted …

Just as congressional leaders have resisted calls for generational change, so too have justices resisted pressure to step down. Some progressives called for Ginsburg to retire in 2014, when Democrats still controlled the White House and the Senate and had more power to replace her with a like-minded successor. “To …