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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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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 …

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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The president of the Georgia chapter of the NAACP has resigned from Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s bipartisan election task force. Rev. James Woodall told the Atlanta Journal Constitution Wednesday that the operation is “a farce,” and that he is leaving the task force because he felt it has changed …