Photo: Shutterstock (Shutterstock) It’s been a week in America. After another shooting of a Black person at the hands of police—7 times in the back, no less—everybody reached a new level of over it. Athletes in several of the major sports either postponed, cancelled or walked out of games or …
Read More »Bill and Ted’s Excellent Midlife Crisis
If you hopped inside a telephone booth and traveled back through the space-time continuum to your first encounter with Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, you might be surprised to discover that its early scenes were, to paraphrase our heroes, totally bogus. In Bill & Ted vernacular, bogus doesn’t mean “counterfeit,” …
Read More »National Action Network’s Commitment March
Friday, August 28, 2020: Join BET.com as we follow the live coverage of the National Action Network ’s (NAN) Commitment March: “Get Your Knee Off Our Necks” commemorated on the same day 57 years ago when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made his historic “I Have A Dream Speech” during the …
Read More »Nonprofit CEO Regina Jackson Worries About How to Keep Kids Safe in These Turbulent Times
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 …
Read More »Porsha Williams’ Activism Will Be Featured On ‘RHOA’
Porsha Williams has been making news beyond Real Housewives of Atlanta, and her new pursuits will reportedly make it into the upcoming season. The 39-year-old has been protesting against police violence and has even landed her behind bars. Thankfully, Real Housewives of Atlanta will not shy away from this storyline. …
Read More »Missouri Lawmakers Advance Bill Allowing Adults to Give Children Guns Without Parental Consent
Photo: Eva Hambach (Getty Images) Regardless of how one feels about the subject of gun laws and regulation, a reasonable person would have to admit that certain proposed pro-Second Amendment policies are just plain reckless. For example, Missouri lawmakers recently advanced a bill that would make it legal for an …
Read More »Halle Berry Will Represent Herself In Divorce
Halle Berry filed for divorce from her third husband, Oliver Martinez, in October of 2015. However, the divorce has not been finalized. Now it’s being reported that the Oscar-winning actress will represent herself in court. Entertainment Tonight reports, “Her former attorney, Marina Zakiyan Beck, signed off on the change on …
Read More »A New Era of Coronavirus Testing Is About to Begin
We recognize there could be value in home testing, and we’ll continue to look at this. There are concerns. When you go to home testing, how effective is the sampling a person does? That’s the importance of why we chose a nasal swab [which just goes in the nostril] instead …
Read More »Tennis Star Naomi Osaka Joins Athlete Boycott
Tennis superstar Naomi Osaka is joining a flood of athletes who have decided to stand firm in the name of social justice. Osaka announced today that she will not compete in the semi final match at the Western & Southern Open scheduled on Thursday, August 27 in Ohio. Osaka posted …
Read More »Gabrielle Union’s Flawless Haircare Line is More Affordable and Blacker Than Ever
Gabrielle Union revealed that she was keeping a major secret back in 2017 when she first launched her haircare brand, Flawless. While filming the hit BET series Being Mary Jane, the actress was suffering from hair loss following multiple rounds of IVF. With large bald patches around her crown and …
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