With recreational and medical cannabis usage becoming legalized in more and more states, a lot of entrepreneurs are looking to cash in on this growing sector. Despite the progress in legalization, the lingering effects of the War on Drugs-era policies and racial discrimination along with the large amount of start-up …
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Janelle Monáe is all about living your unapologetic truth and she will be celebrating in that freedom along with thousands of New Yorkers for the 2020 Pride Island Festival in June. NYC Pride, the organization that puts together a number of the official LGBTQIA+ Pride events in New York City in the month …
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Image: Instagram TikTok is the newest social media platform soaring in popularity; producing a new crop of content creators. You already have a ton of celebrities capitalizing on the trend with Bajan superstar, Rihanna, taking it one step further with her Fenty Beauty brand. Last week, the beauty mogul unveiled …
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The World Health Organization has officially declared the COVID-19 virus (best known as coronavirus) a worldwide pandemic as the disease spreads across the world and the death toll mounts. Via Yahoo! News: As the COVID-19’s casualty count mounted, the organization had resisted characterizing the disease as a pandemic. Yet …
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Image: Instagram There are many historical figures that are memorialized as statues in our country’s capital. It was announced this week that our nation’s capital is about to add the first statue of a historic black woman to its collection. Education pioneer Mary McLeod Bethune will be making history as …
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Written by Jerry L. Barrow At the end of On My Block season two, things were not looking good for our young heroes. In Netflix’s dramatic comedy, high school friends Cesar (Diego Tinoco) Ruby (Jason Genao) Jamal (Brett Gray) and Monse (Sierra Capri) are trying to survive their freshman year …
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Authorities were called to a home in Granite Bay, CA on Sunday (Mar. 8) after a mother hadn’t heard from her daughter in a while. That’s where they found the dead bodies of a newly married couple, 43-year-old Timothy Delgado and his wife, 45-year-old Tamara Delgado. The pair, which …
Read More »Kori Ali MuhammadScreenshot: ABC 30 We’ve all heard the phrase “an eye for an eye,” and after enduring a lifetime of racism, that was the exact justification that accused killer Kori Ali Muhammad gave authorities for his decision to allegedly murder four people in 2017. From the Fresno Bee: In …
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In the first season of Boomerang on BET, we followed Simone Graham (the daughter of Marcus and Angela Graham) and Bryson (son of Jacquelin Boyer) as they set out to forge their own paths in the world of advertising, coming out from under the shadow of their well-known parents. Complicating their professional …
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(Image: Wikimedia) NBA legend and current sports commentator Charles Barkley told WJOX 94.5 that he intends to sell some of his NBA memorabilia to help build affordable housing in his hometown of Leeds, AL, according to Sports Illustrated. “We probably got 30 eyesores, as I call them, where houses used to be …
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