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This may not be a totally lost NBA season. The league started talks with the Walt Disney Company for a possible restart to the 2019-20 season in late July at Disney’s ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Florida, according to an official NBA statement on Saturday (May 23). The …

Share0 Photo Credit: @blackbusinessboom/Instagram The spread of COVID-19, or the novel coronavirus, has deeply impacted small business owners around the country. With many states enforcing stay-at-home orders effectively closing down all brick and mortar businesses deemed “non-essential” in the process causing them to retreat to online digital storefronts. Because of …

Spelman College Class of 2020 Graduate Gabrielle Sumpter reacting to news that her tuition was paid off.Screenshot: Spelman College (Youtube) Frank Baker, an African-American investor who heads the billion dollar private equity firm Siris, has paid off the remaining tuition balances for the 2020 class of graduates at Spelman College …

The Breakfast Club co-host Charlamagne Tha God appeared Sunday (May 24) on MSNBC’s AM Joy to discuss his reaction to Joe Biden’s controversial comment on his show and the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s apology. On Friday (May 23), Charlamagne asked the former vice president about doing enough to win the Black …

Photo: JEFF HAYNES (AFP via Getty Images) In the aftermath of ESPN’s The Last Dance, there have been quite a few ruffled feathers. Reports have surfaced about Scottie Pippen being “beyond livid” at his portrayal and another former teammate, Craig Hodges, ripped Michael Jordan for statements that he made about …

Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood star Milan Christopher posted a photo on Sunday (May 24) of him and his new girlfriend out on a date, seemingly confirming the new relationship. Upnewsinfo identifies her as a transgender woman named Lauryn England. The couple each posted a picture of them holding hands …

Photo: Mark Kolbe (Getty Images) Tennis Star Naomi Osaka has broken the all-time record for female athlete’s earnings in a single year, according to a new report from Forbes. 22-year-old Osaka earned $37.4 million in the last 12 months from prize money and endorsements, making her the world’s highest paid …

*** Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours. About this poem “Decoration Day,” a remembrance honoring the Civil War dead, was first published in our June 1882 issue. As our poetry editor David Barber explains, the piece …

Tamar Braxton needed a change in her life after a rough year in 2018, and she got it by shaving her head. The singer and reality star, who filed for divorce from husband Vince Hebert and had a fall out with producers of her reality show around the same time, …

Just as 9/11 defined the new millennium, the novel coronavirus will certainly be the story of the decade.  The global pandemic has caused a devastating public health crisis, initiated a global economic disaster, and in the United States, pulled back the curtain on the deep-rooted racial inequities that persist. Just …