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Curtis Symonds is the CEO of HBCU Network and a great champion of HBCU’s across the country. He’s the mastermind behind the new HBCU Go ap which offers live broadcasts of Division I and II football and basketball games for free. (Photo courtesy of Peter Klosky.cs) In an era where …

Aretha Franklin waves after her performance at the International Jazz Day Concert (Photo by Aude Guerrucci-Pool/Getty Images) The last property owned in Detroit by late singing legend Aretha Franklin, a 5,600-square-foot mansion, has been sold for less than half a million dollars. According to public records, the brick home, which …

In this Thursday, March 29, 2018, file photo, Rapper Nipsey Hussle watches an NBA basketball game between the Golden State Warriors and the Milwaukee Bucks in Oakland, Calif. Rapper Nipsey Hussle was shot multiple times Sunday, March 31, 2019, afternoon in South Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File) Nipsey …

(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Right-wing haters were sure Nike faced certain doom after making Colin Kaepernick the face of a new ad campaign, only to see the company stock soar and the sports apparel giant post better-than-expected second-quarter sales. While the company’s stock briefly took a hit in the …

Washington is about to consider legislation that will impose a 36 percent interest rate cap on loan options which could adversely impact the Black community. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) I remember when I was in college in the late 1980s going into the early 1990s, my mom and brother would …

(Photo by Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images) Jennifer Lopez has been slapped with a copyright infringement lawsuit for posting an unauthorized photo of herself to Instagram. According to TMZ, professional photographer Michael Stewart says he snapped the pic of JLo earlier this year and licensed it to The Daily Mail, who ran …

(AP Photo/Eric Gay) Over the summer many of us found ourselves confused by (and then pulled into) the unexpected rise of Popeyes’ Chicken sandwich. Now a mother and son have gone viral for using the pandemonium as inspiration for their Halloween costume. According to USA Today, this week Las Vegas …

(Photo: famunews.com) NIKE has named Florida A&M University alumni and FAMU Foundation Board member, G. Scott Uzzell, President and CEO of Converse, Inc., the company announced Friday, Dec 21. According to The AP, Uzzell comes to Converse from The Coca-Cola Company where he most recently served as President, Venturing & …

Pixabay Employees at a high-end celebrity salon in New York City are being mandated to receive training on Black hair styling after a law passed which makes it illegal to discriminate against customers based on their hair. In February, the New York City Commission on Human Rights updated a pre-existing …

GM announced that 400 workers will be hired.(Photo: Adobe Stock Photo) As federal workers across the country struggle to regain traction after the government shutdown, General Motors workers are bracing for layoffs set to start next week. Detroit giant GM is expected to begin laying off 4,250 salaried workers on …