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Basketball Wives L.A. cast member Brittish Williams has reportedly been indicted by a federal grand jury in St. Louis on fraud charges. On September 22, Williams, who appeared on BBWLA’s third season, was indicted on five felony charges of misuse of a Social Security number, four charges of bank fraud, …

Access to healthy food continues to be an issue for millions of families. Studies show that food insecurity became more widespread during the pandemic with 27.5 percent of households with children battling the issue. To help combat issues of food insecurity among children, Academy Award-winning producer, actor, TV host Terrence …

Photo: Firefighter Montreal (Shutterstock) In a legal battle that lasted more than a decade, Brookline Town voted Tuesday to award an $11 million settlement to a Black former firefighter who said he experienced racial discrimination at the fire department. The Boston Globe reports that Gerald Alston accused his fire department …

Titane opens with a woman having sex with a car and going on a killing spree. It ends on a much more tender note. Neon / Everett Julia Ducournau does not make movies that audiences are likely to see themselves in. Her knockout debut feature, Raw, follows a veterinary student …

The recent revelation that telecommunications giant AT&T reportedly played a key role in creating and sustaining One America News (OAN), which is known for embracing far-right viewpoints and which has also been accused of spreading misinformation about the 2020 election, ignited fury at the NAACP. A statement from NAACP CEO …

Remnants from one of the nation’s oldest Black churches have been found inside the living history museum Colonial Williamsburg. The brick foundation of The First Baptist Church was recently unearthed and announced by Colonial Williamsburg on Thursday. The structure was found after the museum analyzed layers of soil and artifacts …

Generic ImagePhoto: Shutterstock (Shutterstock) According to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “over 140,000 kids have experienced the loss of a parent or caretaker since the COVID-19 pandemic began.” The study also noted that the demographic hit hardest by these tragic events were Black and …

Billions of years ago, the view from the edge of Jezero crater would have been “spectacular.” NASA / JPL-Caltech Millions of miles away, on the surface of Mars, inside an enormous crater, a little NASA rover is taking some pictures. The view is quite stunning there—miles of undisturbed cinnamon terrain …

After decades of research, a malaria vaccine has been approved. According to the New York Times, the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) endorsed the vaccine, which was created by GlaxoSmithKline. Dr. Pedro Alonso, director of the W.H.O.’s global malaria program, said in an Oct. 6 statement, “It’s a huge jump from …

Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has become the first Black writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature since 1993, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday. Gurnah, who was born in Zanzibar and has written 10 novels was recognized by the Nobel Prize judges “For his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects …