Earlier this year, Queen Latifah announced the 2020 winners of The Queen Collective, a talent development and mentorship program launched with Tribeca Studios and Procter & Gamble to support new, visionary women of color filmmakers who want to develop projects that involve telling personal stories of marginalized people. One of …
Read More »Filmmaker Haley Anderson Shares Her Passion For Real Stories
Growing up, Haley Anderson held on to a secret. There had been periods of time, on and off in her adolescence and even up until when she was attending college, when Anderson and her family were homeless. They lived in motels, and at times, in their car. Now, the director, …
Read More »“Little Women: Atlanta” Star Ms. Minnie at Fault for Fatal Crash, Memorial Service Will Be Live Streamed
More information has been released regarding the fatal car accident that claimed the life of Little Women: Atlanta star Ashley “Minnie” Ross. According to the crash report and eyewitnesses, police believe Ross, 34, lost control of her car while driving southbound on an Atlanta highway and went off-road. She …
Read More »Mothers Launch COVID-19 Relief Fund for Mom-Owned Businesses
Share1 Dr. Tammira Lucas and Jasmine Simms, the founders of Moms as Entrepreneurs (Image: Instagram) Many holidays and traditions have been postponed or cancelled this year due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. As we move into May, another casualty of the viral outbreak is going out to celebrate Mother’s Day, …
Read More »Meek Mill’s Girlfriend Milano Gives Birth to Their Son on Rapper’s 33rd Birthday
Meek Mill just received the best birthday gift ever … the birth of his third son on his own birthday! The rapper took to Twitter Wednesday afternoon (May 6) to announce that his girlfriend Milano Harris had given birth to their son the same day he was celebrating his …
Read More »Kweisi Mfume Fills Seat Left Vacant by Elijah Cummings
Photo: Alex Wong (Getty Images) There was some speculation on who would fill the vacant seat left by Elijah Cummings’ tragic passing last fall, and after an election last week, it appears the man who Cummings replaced will fill the seat once more. NBC News reports that Kweisi Mfume, a …
Read More »Meghan Markle bashed on Archie’s first birthday by author: ‘Go Away’
Emily Griffin and Meghan Markle with baby Archie (Credit: Emily Griffin and Duchess of Sussex) Meghan Markle celebrating her son Archie’s first birthday sent one author into a full-blown Karen meltdown. READ MORE: Meghan Markle may be relaunching lifestyle blog ‘The Tig’ Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, the son of Markle and …
Read More »Pastor Jamal Bryant Welcomes Baby With Woman Who is NOT His Ex-Wife & Current Girlfriend “RHOP” Star Gizelle Bryant (Report)
Well, this is certainly … interesting. The Reverend Jamal H. Bryant just welcomed a baby with a woman who is NOT his ex-wife and current girlfriend, Real Housewives of Potomac star Gizelle Bryant. Sources say the promiscuous pastor’s new baby mama is one of his church members. Bryant is …
Read More »<em>The Atlantic Daily</em>: South Korea’s COVID-19 Exceptionalism
Uri Friedman, our global reporter, spoke with people around the world, including South Korea, to better understand what life looks like after the curve flattens. He found that cities were coming back to life, but not the life we once knew. One of the people he spoke with was Sujin …
Read More »Black freelancers hit hard by COVID-19 get creative for income
What happens to people who earn an income on a job-by-job basis when there are no more jobs? From photographers and media correspondents to Lyft drivers and skilled-workers, many people who are self-employed or independent contractors are faced with canceled events and low demand due to the coronavirus pandemic. theGrio’s third …
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