Super Bowl 50

Jacque Reid talks to Nita Bell of In Our Backyard, to talk about sex trafficking that takes place in the United States and how major events like the Super Bowl are breeding grounds for prostitution. “It’s bad. We’ve got a lot of work to do to change the culture, the thought. Most of the sex […]

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — The Denver Broncos say star cornerback Aqib Talib is recovering after being shot in the leg at a Dallas nightclub. Team spokesman Patrick Smyth said the team has been in touch with the cornerback and that he’s doing OK. Smyth said the team was gathering more information. Last week, Talib said […]

Quite possibly one of the most talked about players of the 2015 NFL season was Cam Newton. Dubbed as the blackest Panther in the NFL, EBONY honors Cameron with a double cover (and we’re not complaining one bit) of the April/May 2016 issue. In the issue he talks about the career ending post-practice car accident right before the start […]

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Peyton Manning surveyed the landscape of his brilliant career and called one last audible. He’s retiring a champion. A month after Denver’s triumph in Super Bowl 50, Manning informed John Elway he is following his lead and riding off into that orange sunset just like the Broncos’ boss did 17 years […]

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Von Miller won’t have to worry about getting fined for the dances he’s about to come up with next. A person with knowledge of the situation confirmed to The Associated Press on Thursday night that the Super Bowl MVP will be a contestant on ABC’s upcoming season of “Dancing with the […]

Minister Louis Farrakhan is offering up the Fruit of Islam to protect Beyonce on her upcoming concert tour if police officers follow through on talk of a boycott. “She started talking all that black stuff … and white folks were like, ‘We don’t know how to deal with that,” said Farrakhan Sunday during a speech […]

Von Miller may be known as one of the best players in the NFL and the man who shut down Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton during Super Bowl 50, but things could’ve been way different if his father caught wind of him playing youth football back in the day. Recounting his childhood, Miller revealed to […]

The drama over Beyoncé’s performance during the Super Bowl 50 halftime show continues to occupy news space as a police union in Miami voted in favor of calling on all police offices to boycott the singer’s April 26 concert in the city. The Huffington Post reports the boycott is motivated by claims of Beyoncé’s promoting […]

A Tennessee sheriff whose home was allegedly shot at on Monday night believes he might have been targeted because of “Beyoncé’s “Formation” video. In Tuesday’s press conference about the shooting at his home, Rutherford County Sheriff Robert Arnold cited fatal police shootings in North Dakota, Georgia, and Maryland in recent weeks as the most plausible […]

Kelly Rowland has come out to defend her girl Beyonce against the ranting of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who claimed Bey’s Super Bowl halftime show was nothing more than a “platform to attack police officers.” At Friday night’s Delta Airlines Grammy party, Us Weekly asked Rowland to comment. “I think that we […]

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning is mentioned in the lawsuit a group of women filed against the University of Tennessee last week in which they said the school violated Title IX regulations in the way it has handled reports of sexual assaults by student-athletes. The lawsuit was filed by six unidentified […]

Beyoncé continues to have a target on her back by those blasting her for honoring the Black Panther Party during the Super Bowl 50 halftime show. The latest critic of the singer is conservative TV host Tomi Lahren, who made things personal as she brought Beyoncé’s husband Jay Z into her thumbs down of the […]