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Graphic: Elizabeth Lanier Best Deals of the DayBest Deals of the DayThe best deals from around the web, updated daily. A sale on Alienware peripherals and a 70-inch 4K Sharp AQUOS tv lead Saturday’s best deals. If there’s one thing you can probably never have too many of, it is …
Read More »Fiscal Responsibility Doesn’t Mean What It Used To
Read: The Great Recession is still with us In retrospect, the fears were overblown. The United States posted huge deficits during the Trump years, before the coronavirus recession, in part due to the passage of $2 trillion in tax cuts. America’s debt swelled to 70 percent of GDP, then 75 …
Read More »Snoop Says Cardi B Needs To ‘Slow Down’ Rapping About Sex
Snoop Dogg says he believes women rappers shouldn’t rap about their anatomy or sexuality. During a recent interview with Central Ave, he gave his honest thoughts about Cardi B’s hit song “WAP,” which features Megan Thee Stallion. Apparently, he thinks it’s too explicit. “Oh my God. Slow down. Like, slow …
Read More »‘Black Men in White Coats’ Are Inspiring Black Boys to Become Doctors Too!
Dr. Dale Okorodudu, an African-American doctor and the founder of Black Men in White Coats, aims to make an impact on the world by helping develop future leaders in medicine. He recently organized a youth summit with a goal to inspire Black boys to pursue the career of becoming a doctor …
Read More »Carol Sutton, Actress Featured in Steel Magnolias and Queen Sugar, Dead at 76 From COVID-19
Photo: Rachel Luna (Getty Images) New Orleans-based actress Carol Sutton, whose long career spanned film, stage, and television performances, has died at 76 from complications of the coronavirus. Sutton had been hospitalized at the Touro Infirmary in New Orleans with a COVID-19 infection and died on Thursday night, reports WGNO …
Read More »The Artifacts of Bygone Lives
Photographs by Terry Adkins This article was published online on December 12, 2020. What you are looking at is the afterlife of memories. Memory jugs were funerary objects found in the South on the graves of African Americans through the mid‑20th century. These small stoneware vessels were adorned with fragments—broken …
Read More »Sneak Peek Taraji P. Henson’s New Facebook Watch Show
Taraji P. Henson has long been an advocate for mental health, especially for Black women, and now she’s channeling that energy into a new talk show for Facebook Watch called Peace Of Mind With Taraji. The Golden Globe-winning actor is joined by her best friend and co-host Tracie Jade to “shine a spotlight on …
Read More »Wealth Builder Portia Hoover Teaches Women How to Generate Multiple Streams of Income
Portia Hoover is a philanthropist, bestselling author, wealth-generating coach, and high-energy entrepreneur behind the online “Level Up” program that is changing the lives of thousands of women throughout the world. With a strong passion to help others succeed and a business acuity in creating new opportunities, Hoover created her business …
Read More »Lil Wayne Pleads Guilty To Federal Gun Charge, Could Go To Prison for 10 Years
Photo: Matt Winkelmeyer (Getty Images) Lil Wayne could be headed to the slammer based on federal charges for illegal possession of a firearm. AP reports that the 38-year-old rapper, whose real name is Dwayne Michael Carter, on Friday pled guilty in a Miami court to charges related to an incident …
Read More »The 15 Best TV Shows of 2020
Also noteworthy: Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich (Netflix) Sabrina Lantos / FX / Hulu TIMELY POLITICAL DRAMA: MRS. AMERICA, FX ON HULU The success of Mrs. America is partly a matter of its prepositions: The show’s examination of the failed passage of the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s takes place …
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