The coronavirus pandemic has created a lot of uncertainty for parents and their children. With the majority of schools shut down for the remainder of the school year — if not longer — many parents are wondering how to plan for an uncertain future. Noggin, Nickelodeon’s top-ranked interactive learning service …
Read More »Steve Harvey to Host a Virtual Mentoring Program Aimed to Ease Anxiety for Young Men Amid COVID-19
Young people are facing a number of challenges as they stay home and practice social distancing. Being out of school and the uncertainty about when they will get back into the swing of things is stressful to many students. Hoping to ease anxiety for young boys, in particular, Steve Harvey …
Read More »Trailer Roundup: Momma, I Made It to Lovecraft Country
(L-R): Yvonne Orji: Momma, I Made It! (2020); Lovecraft Country (2020)Screenshot: HBO (YouTube) Welcome to May! Did you allow the force to be with you earlier this week? This week is short and sweet in terms of content so let’s not waste any further time so you can return to …
Read More »The Books Briefing: The Antidote to Uncertainty
📚 Images: My Life in Film, by Ingmar Bergman 📚 The Magic Lantern, by Ingmar Bergman 📚 Karate Chop, by Dorthe Nors You Will Never Be Forgotten explores grief in a near-future world “Written with dark humor and a striking lack of sentimentality, these stories are vehicles for characters who …
Read More »President Donald Trump Reacts To Ahmaud Arbery Death
President Donald Trump said the inicident in which Ahmaud Arbery was killed could have had “something that we didn’t see on tape,” in reference to the video that showed the chase and physical confront ation that ended in the shooting. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday (May 7), …
Read More »Mississippi Welfare Scandal: Audit Shows Luxury Cars Among $94 Million in Questionable Spending
Share0 (Image: iStock/PeopleImages) A 104-page audit of the Mississippi Department of Human Services exposed spending not being used for the purposes the money was earmarked for, according to USA Today. Money that was meant to assist poor residents was used to purchase luxury cars, sponsor a college baseball tournament, and …
Read More »Michael Flynn is the Latest White Man Whose Actions Have No Consequences
Photo: Mario Tama (Getty Images) It really must be nice to be a white man in America. Imagine pleading guilty twice to a crime and still getting away with it. That is the case for former national security adviser Michael Flynn. The New York Times reports that the Justice Department …
Read More »Why Michael Flynn Is Walking Free
The FBI notes set off a firestorm in conservative media, which argued that Flynn had been unfairly targeted by the bureau. The putative concern over unfair prosecutions rings false for Trump and his allies, who have demanded iron-fisted “law and order” in cases that don’t involve the president’s cronies. Moreover, …
Read More »BET features ‘Ballet After Dark’
B. Monét has the pedigree of a qualified, top-notch writer/director and the talent and ability to see things with both grace and accuracy. Besides having a B.A. in English from Spelman College and a MFA from New York University in Film and Television with a concentration in writing and directing, …
Read More »Africa.com CEO Teresa Clarke Relies on Grandma’s Advice: ‘Keep on Keeping On’
Featuring a broad cross-section of women who have distinguished themselves across a rich variety of careers, our Portraits of Power series is a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Black Enterprise, and of black women. It’s a place for today’s businesswomen to share their own favorite images and their own …
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