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Janelle Monáe attends the 2022 Vanity Fair Oscar Party following the 94th Oscars at the The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, California on March 27, 2022. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)Photo: Patrick T. Fallon (Getty …
Read More »Sir Lewis Hamilton, Serena Williams Part of Bid to Buy Chelsea FC
Lewis Hamilton, left; Serena Williams.Photo: Mark Thompson; Daniele Venturelli/WireImage (Getty Images) British racing champion Sir Lewis Hamilton and tennis champion Serena Williams are putting their collective influence and coins together as a part of a bid to potentially buy Chelsea FC, one of the world’s biggest and most premier football …
Read More »'I Am a Governor of People, Not of Tombstones'
Soon after Russia invaded Ukraine, Pavlo Kyrylenko and Serhiy Gaidai received phone calls from men they believed to be Russians, based on their accents. Kyrylenko and Gaidai, the governors of the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, respectively, were being enticed to defect. The pair—the top Ukrainian officials in parts …
Read More »Xavier University Planning to Open Medical School
Photo: Maksim Shmeljov (Shutterstock) When it comes to HBCUs, Xavier University is one of the best places to go if you’re going pre-med. But now, the small Louisiana university is planning to open a medical school and graduate school of health sciences of its own. Reynold Verret, Xavier University president …
Read More »Vice President Kamala Harris To Give Commencement Speech At HBCU
Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks at the William J. Rutter Center about maternal health crisis on Thursday, April 21, 2022, in San Francisco.Photo: Yalonda M. James/San Franncisco Chronicle (AP) Vice President Kamala Harris will give the commencement address at Tennessee State University on May 7, the school announced this …
Read More »All Charges Have Been Dropped Against BLM Activist Pamela Moses for Voting Error
Photo: nampix (Shutterstock) All criminal charges against Pamela Moses have been dropped after she was originally sentenced to six years in prison for attempting to register to vote in the city of Memphis. Moses was told by her probation officer that she had completed her probation from a 2015 felony …
Read More »NFL Player Von Miller Being Sued For Sharing Explicit Photos of A Former Lover
Photo: Ira Bostic (Shutterstock) A woman is suing Von Miller, NFL linebacker for the Buffalo Bills, for allegedly sharing explicit images of her engaged in consensual sexual acts with two celebrities. The files also allegedly include a sex tape between the woman (who is being referred to only as Jane …
Read More »Black Couple Takes Justice Into Their Own Hands After Being Forced To Prove Ownership Of Their Clothing Store
Photo: Larina Marina (Shutterstock) In August of 2020 as the world cried out for justice for George Floyd’s murder at the hands of police, the quiet town of Tiburon, California was mismanaging its own officer encounters with the public. Married couple Yema Khalif and Hawi Awash were approached by an …
Read More »Ready for Takeoff: Compton Program Inspires Black, Brown Youths To Dream of Aviation Careers
Demetrius Harris of Compton, California, says he still remembers the moment two Black pilots welcomed him onto a commercial flight when he was young, leaving him with a lasting impression of the heights he too would someday be able to reach. “There was something powerful about seeing two people that …
Read More »Dwayne Haskins Jr.'s New Jersey Funeral To Be Livestreamed Today
Screenshot: Provided by parents of Dwayne Haskins Jr. A second memorial for Dwayne Haskins Jr., the former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback who died this month in a tragic accident on a Florida Highway, is being held in New Jersey on Saturday afternoon. Today’s public memorial, planned and hosted by Haskins’ parents, …
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