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Drew, real name Tequan Richmond, is all grown up now.
Jada Pinkett Smith is not afraid to speak her mind when awards season comes around. Last year, she spoke about the lack of diversity at the Oscars and now she’s got some choice words for the Golden Globes. On Twitter, Jada pointed out how Tiffany Haddish didn’t get nominated for her role in Girls Trip, […]
London Breed has now joined a unique sorority – the sisterhood of Black female mayors of a major American city. Due to the sudden death of San Francisco’s elected Mayor Ed Lee, 65, who died Tuesday morning from a heart attack, London Breed has become acting mayor. It’s also worth noting that she first Black […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A former Florida congresswoman wants to remain free while appealing her prison sentence for fraud. Seventy-one-year-old Corrine Brown was sentenced last week to five years in prison and three years’ supervised release for fraud and lying on her tax returns and congressional financial disclosures about a purported charity for poor students […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — For Illinois Rep. Luis Gutierrez, a passionate, liberal Democrat of Puerto Rican descent, there is no more important issue in the year-end budget showdown than protecting from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children — and who have only known America as their home. The […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Republicans on Tuesday were speeding toward an agreement on a massive tax package that would ease the hit on Americans living in high-tax states and appease corporations that could have lost precious tax breaks. Negotiators were working to expand a deduction for state and local taxes to allow individuals to deduct […]
It’s that time of year again, for the Jewish Festival of lights to begin — a.k.a. the first day of Hanukkah. https://twitter.com/sciencewitch/status/940558994955034624 Did you know that these celebs are of Jewish descent and may (or may not) celebrate Hanukkah? Drake Drizzy is like the poster child for Jewish celebs. He even recreated his bar mitzvah […]
A Black woman received from than 7,000 likes and over 3,000 retweets after sharing that an Uber driver refused to pick her up.
BALTIMORE (AP) — U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday that an attack on the New York City subway system showed in the “starkest terms” that the failures of the U.S. immigration system are a national security issue. Speaking at a news conference with the new chief of Homeland Security, Sessions said two terrorist attacks […]
A basketball club from Lithuania says it has signed LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball to pro contracts, making LaVar Ball‘s two younger sons ineligible for college basketball. The move comes after LiAngelo left UCLA , where he was suspended after being arrested for shoplifting during the team’s season-opening trip to China. LaVar Ball pulled 16-year-old LaMelo […]
Comedian Godfrey went in on Dagostino’s Grocery store in NYC for following him around and suspecting him of stealing, when it was actually a customer that they never suspected. https://www.instagram.com/p/BcgE55ZjtKu/?taken-by=comediangodfrey Has something like this ever happened to you? Hit us on Twitter and Facebook to share your story.
Local and state NAACP chapters in North Carolina are calling for immediate action after Christmas calenders with illustrations of "Mammy" were passed out at an assisted living facility.
