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Screenshot: @keyonharrold/ Instagram If “Karens never learn” was a person, she would have to be the white woman who accosted Jazz musician Keyon Harrold and his 14-year-old son at the Arlo Hotel in Soho, New York, over a cell phone she loudly and wrongly accused the teen of stealing. I …
Read More »Louis Gossett, Jr. Was Hospitalized With COVID-19
Actor Louis Gossett, Jr. was hospitalized with COVID-19 but left after seeing the conditions at his facility. TMZ reports that the 84-year-old actor tested positive for the virus and was reportedly so sick that he couldn’t’ stand. After being taken to a Georgia-area hospital, where he stayed a couple of …
Read More »Kyrie Irving Pays Off Tuition For 9 HBCU Students
NBA star Kyrie Irving is providing some much-needed financial relief to a few students at Lincoln University, a perfect end to a tumultuous economic year. Through the Brooklyn Nets point guard’s foundation’s 11 days of giving campaign, nine students attending the Pennsylvania HBCU will have their remaining tuition paid in …
Read More »Natalia Bryant Injures Her Finger During Ski Trip
Natalia Bryant and Vanessa Bryant recently enjoyed a post-Christmas ski trip. Now a small mishap during the vacation is reminding the 17-year-old of her father, Kobe Bryant. Vanessa Bryant posted a video yesterday (Dec. 31) showing Natalia in the midst of getting treated for a swollen finger as well as …
Read More »Dolal Idd the First Person Killed By Minneapolis Police Since George Floyd, City Releases Body Cam Footage of Shooting
Demonstrators gather at the site of Dolal Idd’s killing in Minneapolis, Minnesota on New Years Eve. Photo: Stephen Maturen (Getty Images) Before the close of last year, Minneapolis police recorded the fatal police shooting of a Black man named Dolal Idd. Idd was the first person killed by cops in …
Read More »Coalition Of Black Pastors Slam Loeffler Campaign Ads
Over the weekend, a group of Black pastors wrote an open letter to Georgia Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler and her campaign, responding to recent attacks from her against Democratic Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock’s faith and sermons. The coalition of pastors, primarily from Georgia, claimed that Loeffler’s attacks against Warnock …
Read More »Vaccine Rollout Plagued By Slowdowns, Health Care Worker Refusals, Sabotaged Doses, and More
Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP (Getty Images) I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but 2021 won’t be that much different from 2020 if the country (and the world for that matter) doesn’t get its vaccine act together. As Britain moves forward with a questionable strategy of mixing different vaccine …
Read More »Tiffany Haddish To Launch Internship
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Read More »Dr. Marc Lamont Hill Loses Sister A Day After Their Father Was Buried
A double tragedy has occurred for former Our World with Black Enterprise host Marc Lamont Hill. He announced on his Twitter account that after burying his father earlier this week, his sister died a day later. On Wednesday, Hill posted the news to Twitter. My sister died this morning. We …
Read More »Opposition To the Term Karen Continues Because an Unwillingness To Tackle Racism Continues, Despite the Brief Reckoning in 2020
The woman dubbed “Soho Karen,” captured on video attacking a Black child after falsely accusing him of stealing her phone. Screenshot: @keyonharrold (Instagram) Whenever Black people collectively and specifically speak to the realities of anti-Blackness, there is often outraged and offended backlash from people who would rather racism continue unabated …
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