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Saint Augustine’s University celebrates a historical win for current students and future generations to come. In its 155-year history, the University has formed the first HBCU women’s rowing team in the country, ABC 11 reports. The pioneering team of five scholar-athletes, approved and certified by the American Collegiate Rowing Association …

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What would it have been like to live in Babel in the days after its destruction? In the Book of Genesis, we are told that the descendants of Noah built a great city in the land of Shinar. They built a tower “with its top in the heavens” to “make …

Disclosure: This post involves mention of vehicular manslaughter.   Twenty-four-year-old Dwayne Haskins, a Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback, died on Interstate 595 in Florida Saturday morning. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Haskins was walking on the highway near Fort Lauderdale for unknown reasons and while attempting to cross the westbound lanes …

Photo: Phillip Faraone (Getty Images) Every now and then, the youth choir of Black Twitter Baptist sings a song we’ve all heard once or twice before. In this week’s edition of not-so-new-news that gets resurfaced every 5-6 years or so, folks on the internet have rediscovered Ice Cube’s controversial race …

Walmart heir Rob Walton is thwarting billionaire Robert F. Smith‘s efforts to purchase the Denver Broncos, the New York Post reports.  Walton, 77, who is worth $70 billion, plans to propose a bid valued at more than $4 billion to buy Broncos, corroborated sources, according to the New York Post.  …

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Jada Pinkett-Smith stepped out for the red carpet debut of multi-hyphenate show creator Shonda Rhimes’ new performing arts center in Los Angeles on Saturday night; her first public appearance since the infamous Oscars slap. The 50-year-old actress stunned in a strapless all-gold gown for the star-studded opening of the new …

Photo: Patrick McMullan (Getty Images) On Saturday, 200 rare and never before seen works by the famed artist Jean-Michel Basquiat opened to the public at Chelsea’s Starrett-Lehigh building. The “King Pleasure” exhibition, curated by Basquiat’s sisters Jeanine Heriveaux and Lisane Basquiat, along with their stepmother, Nora Fitzpatrick, is an extension …

The multi-faceted actress Taraji P. Henson adds another venture to her list of accomplishments with the launch of a new skin care line, Body by TPH, a sister line to her Maesa-funded TPH by Taraji hair care products.  The new body care line will include 13 different products, ranging from …