Tamar Braxton seems to be doing much better after her hospitalization following a reported suicide attempt, and she says there’s one person to thank for that: her boyfriend, David Adefeso. The singer and reality star posted to Instagram a long message thanking her partner of two years, and defended him …
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Small businesses—including Black-owned firms—in New Jersey hit hard by COVID-19 will get $6 million in new grants to pay rent. The New Jersey Redevelopment Authority Small Business Lease Emergency Assistance Grant Program will allow small businesses in 64 eligible municipalities to apply for grants of up to $10,000 to cover …
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Naya Rivera has been peacefully laid to rest. The Glee actress was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles on Monday (July 24), according to her official death certificate. RELATED: Heartbreaking Picture Of Naya Rivera’s Mother Visiting Lake Where She Went Missing Rivera was first reported missing on …
Read More »Photo: Shutterstock (Shutterstock) A 15-year-old Black girl who was being detained in a juvenile facility in Detroit for failing to complete online schoolwork has been granted release by the Michigan Court of Appeals. The teenage girl in question, referred to as Grace to protect her privacy, had been held in …
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Mimi Faust and her girlfriend Tamera “Ty” Young are officially engaged! The lovebirds announced the special news on their Instagram pages over the weekend. Young revealed to her fans on Sunday (August 2) that she had been planning to propose to Faust since last year. RELATED: Say Hello to Mimi …
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On the night of August 31, 2019, police officers rushed into a Hong Kong subway station, swinging their batons and chasing suspected anti-government protesters into the narrow carriageways of a parked train as an emergency warning blared overhead. Like many pivotal moments of the city’s protest movement, the scenes were …
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Fans have been calling for a Verzuz battle between Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey, but super producer Timbaland says he has other plans for the “We Belong Together” singer. Swizz Beatz and Timbaland’s Verzuz Instagram Live battle series has seen some legendary artist match-ups so far. Fans now want a …
Read More »Ghanian artist Shatta Wale in a scene from Black is King. Screenshot: @beyonce (Instagram I love Beyoncé. But more importantly, I really love when members of the global Black diaspora connect with each other. It brings me joy to listen to Afrobeat, the genre that dominates the soundtrack for The …
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In the winter of 1975, a quiet young woman from Lexington, Kentucky, met her Ph.D. adviser in Brown University’s writing program for a series of unsatisfactory tutorials about an ambitious project of hers that had yet to fully reveal itself. The encounters were strange enough that her adviser still recalled …
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Terry Crews has issued an apology to Gabrielle Union for not publicly supporting her following her departure from America’s Got Talent and the subsequent racism allegations she levelled against NBC. In the days following her exit from the talent competition show, Crews appeared to distance himself very quickly amid Union’s …
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