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To be completely honest, when I first watched the trailer of The Main Event, I thought that Tichina Arnold was playing mom to eleven-year-old Leo Thompson (played by Seth Carr). It took a bit of the trailer for me to realize, “Oh, she’s his grandma.” She is the epitome of “Black…
“Black Ink Crew: Chicago” reality star Charmaine Walker and her husband Neek Bey are clearly […] …
Earl G. Graves Sr., the founder and publisher of Black Enterprise, has died at 85. According to his son Earl “Butch” Graves, Jr., he passed away at 9:22 p.m. on April 6 after a long fight with Alzheimer’s. Graves, Jr., who is the current CEO of Black Enterprise, shared the news on Twitter. SIGN…
NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey’s new book club pick is Robert Kolker’s “Hidden Valley Road,” an in-depth account of a 1950s family in which six of 12 children were diagnosed with schizophrenia. Winfrey says she will continue picking books during the coronavirus outbreak, and will seek new ways to engage…
A Virginia pastor who downplayed the coronavirus on social media has died following a positive COVID-19 diagnosis. Pastor Landon Spradlin described the global pandemic as media “hysteria” and once shared a post suggesting the deadline virus was being used to smear Trump. Spradlin died late last month after having developed pneumonia in both lungs and testing…
Kandi Burruss may just have a color, according to social media. The longtime “The Real […] …
Police arrested the Ohio man behind a YouTube video showing himself and others defying the coronavirus lockdown at a street party in Cincinnati. In a clip that has gone viral, Rashaan Davis, 25, can be heard narrating the large gathering on Friday night, showing some folks standing on cars and dancing to music. The following day he…
ATLANTA (AP) — Civil rights icon and Georgia Rep. John Lewis is backing Joe Biden for president, giving the prospective Democratic nominee perhaps his biggest symbolic endorsement among the many veteran black lawmakers who back his candidacy. “We need his voice,” the 80-year-old Lewis told reporters ahead of the campaign’s Tuesday…
In the wake of COVID-19, a reading of current political discourse and events shows global neoliberal …
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago is launching a health campaign focused on the city’s black and brown communities, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday following a media report highlighting the disproportionate number of black residents among those who have died of COVID-19 complications in the city. Lightfoot called WBEZ’s finding that 70% of recorded…
Watch “Don’t Slack” Music Video from Trolls World Tour, the all-star sequel to DreamWorks Animation’s 2016 musical hit. Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake return in an adventure that will take them well beyond what they’ve known before. Poppy (Kendrick) and Branch (Timberlake) discover that they are but one of six different…
In this week’s episode Ryanne interviews actor Jamie Hector and entrepreneur Jacquece Jennings. Segment 1: Jamie Hector, known for his iconic role of drug kingpin Marlo Stanfield (voted # 2 greatest villain of all time by Rolling Stone) on HBO’s critically-acclaimed series The Wire is making a mark in the upcoming…
The wife of actor Terry Crews was diagnosed with breast cancer weeks ago, and has since undergone a double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery. “Though it was Stage 1, you’re overwhelmed with fear,” Rebecca, 54, shared with PEOPLE of her experience. “Like cancer is this all-consuming, all-powerful evil entity.” As noted by Page Six, the mother of five…
Yandy Smith-Harris flaunted her curves on social media this past week and her fans weren’t […] …
NEW YORK (AP) — A hacker posted a racial slur hundreds of times in an online fan video chat Friday with a black New York Rangers prospect. The NHL team scrambled to disable the hacker on the Zoom chat with K’Andre Miller, the 20-year-old former Wisconsin defenseman drafted No. 22 overall…