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“How to Build a Life” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror, like the passengers on his bus. If you laughed at that joke, it is …
Read More »WATCH: ‘Free Guy’s Is Jam-Packed With Video Game CGI Effects
Get ready because Free Guy is full of computer-generated effects like you’ve never seen before! Opening in theaters nationwide on Friday (Aug. 13), the upcoming 20th Century Studios romantic comedy stars Ryan Reynolds as a bank teller who realizes that he is nothing more than a supporting character in an …
Read More »Two Hip-Hop Artists Tied To Wu-Tang Clan Killed In Shooting
Two members of a Hip Hop group affiliated with Wu-Tang Clan were reportedly shot and killed in Portland, Oregon on Tuesday (August 10). Relatives identified the two rap artists killed as 12 O’Clock and Murdock of the Brooklyn Zu. According to Oregon Live, the Portland police identified the two men …
Read More »Porsha Williams Announces Major Career Change
After eight years, Real Housewives of Atlanta star Porsha Williams is leaving chat show Dish Nation. The 40-year-old wrote on Instagram, “Goodbyes are never easy, and this one is especially hard. For the past eight years, I’ve worked on one of the most fun, collaborative, exciting, and best produced shows …
Read More »Pride Flags Keep Disappearing At Virginia Tech’s Wesley Center And One Was Replaced With A Confederate Flag
0 Pride flagas are being stolen from Virginia Tech’s campus. (Image: Twitter/@NBC News) A rainbow Pride flag was stolen from the Wesley Religious Center on the campus of Virginia Tech University for the third time in two week, but this time it was replaced with two Confederate flags. John Gresham, …
Read More »Georgia Basketball Coaches Charged With Murder and Cruelty to Children in Black Student Athlete’s Death
Photo: Associated Press (AP) Two high school basketball coaches have been indicted by a grand jury in the 2019 heatstroke death of a Georgia teen. Last month, Larosa Maria Walker-Asekere and Dwight Broom Palmer were charged with second-degree murder, second-degree cruelty to children, involuntary manslaughter and reckless conduct after 16-year-old …
Read More »Sally Rooney Addresses Her Critics
Laura Peretti This article was published online on August 10, 2021. In her first two novels, Conversations With Friends (2017) and Normal People (2018), the young Irish writer Sally Rooney resurrected the depressive, evacuated style that Ernest Hemingway made his signature. “The hills across the valley of the Ebro were …
Read More »Trump Supporter Gets Jail Time For Shooting Black Teen
A gun-toting white Donald Trump supporter will be sitting behind bars for shooting a Black teenage girl in the leg after a rally in Iowa last year for the former president. On Monday (August 9), a judge sentenced Michael McKinney to up to 10 years in prison, ABC News reported. …
Read More »Michigan Police Stand By Officers Who Detained Black Real Estate Agent and Client While Showing House
Earlier this week, BLACK ENTERPRISE reported that a Black real estate agent, Eric D. Brown, and his client, Roy Thorne, as well as his 15-year-old son, were handcuffed and arrested by Michigan police officers during the showing of a home. According to the Michigan police department, the police officers were …
Read More »Black woman lands 10K a month gig to learn about wine
Being paid to sip wine while living rent-free on an exclusive winery in Sonoma County, California sounds like a luxurious Black woman’s dream to many of us. But for Lindsay Perry, this will be her new reality. Perry, 28, of Austin, Texas, was announced as one of the two national …
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