Former Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta star Maurice “Mo” Fayne was just caught defrauding millions from the government, and now he’s being accused of running a $5 million Ponzi scheme for the past six years. On Wednesday (Jun. 24), Fayne was indicted on several bank fraud charges after utilizing the …
Read More »This Young HBCU Graduate Is Buying Property In Houston To Curb Gentrification
Share1 Image via @invstr_/Instagram Gentrification has changed the social and economic demographics of major cities around the United States, causing many low-income native residents to be forced out of their homes. African Americans are often the ones who feel the worst effects of gentrification as higher-income earners drive up real …
Read More »BET Awards ’20: Download Your Own Digital Background
Are you ready for the BET Awards ‘20? Would you like to be a part of the show? Well, here’s a way you can get your own stage moment by setting up a Zoom virtual background. Follow the instructions below to help you get your own moment in the spotlight. …
Read More »Ohio Lawmakers Seek to Remove Slavery as a Punishment From State Constitution
Protesters Outside Ohio StatehousePhoto: Matthew Hatcher (Getty Images ) Slavery, for the most part, has been abolished in this country. I say for the most part because the 13th Amendment allows for slavery to be used as a form of punishment. Some states have already elected to remove that clause …
Read More »See Noelle Robinson’s Glam LA Apartment
Cynthia Bailey‘s daughter Noelle Robinson recently moved to Los Angeles and she’s excited to share a virtual tour of her beautiful new home with her fans. Although Noelle Robinson spent many years in Atlanta while her mother filmed Real Housewives of Atlanta, and attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., she …
Read More »A Devastating New Stage of the Pandemic
The country’s second surge has arrived—and it is hammering states, such as Texas and Arizona, that escaped the first surge mostly unscathed. Read: America is giving up on the pandemic This new surge is large enough to shift the entire country’s top-line statistics. In terms of new confirmed cases, three …
Read More »Paris Jackson Describes Pressures Of Being MJ’s Daughter
Paris Jackson is giving fans an inside look into her life via a new Facebook Watch series. Unfiltered: Paris Jackson and Gabriel Glenn premieres June 30 and will take viewers inside Jackson’s personal life and will, according to the series description, “pull back the curtain with honest conversation surrounding topics …
Read More »The federal government sent $1.4B in stimulus checks to deceased people
Government Check (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) While the Black community continues to be disproportionately affected by COVID-19, both medically and financially, it has been revealed that over a million Americans who had died were still sent coronavirus stimulus payments totaling $1.4 billion. READ MORE: Wealthy hospitals get billions in COVID-19 money, …
Read More »New Doc Captures Intensity Of NYC Protests
It’s hard to believe that just a month ago today, the nation watched in horror as a video went viral of George Floyd taking his last breaths when then Officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. Just about every state and several international communities …
Read More »Jimmy Kimmel Apologizes For Blackface Skit
Late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel is apologizing after a clip surfaced of him in blackface as NBA icon Karl Malone. Kimmel, who is taking a summer break from his show, said in a statement, “I have long been reluctant to address this, as I knew doing so would …
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