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San Francisco is one of the few cities that appears to be seriously considering reparations for its Black residents -- and there are some hard figures on the table ... from $1 to millions.

SF's Board of Supervisors -- consisting of 11 members -- heard a…

A North Carolina man who survived a lynching in 1952 is sharing details about how law enforcement hung him from a tree as part of an intimidation tactic.

The incident occurred in 1952, in Wake County, N.C., when then-police chief Sam Bagwell arrested eight Black men, including Lynn Council, and accused them of robbing a local convenience store. …

The three women are just one of hundreds who have been reported missing in the country that are still missing. There are 550 Americans reported missing (pictured: Marina Rios) 

A Texas trooper is warning Americans to rethink traveling to Mexico after three women vanished when crossing the border to sell clothes at a flea market - joining the more than 500 US…

Seun Adebagbo (Oluwaseun Adebagbo)

When being truly honest with herself, Seun Adebagbo says, she can describe what drove her to go to medical school in a single word: self-preservation

Adebagbo, who was born in Nigeria and grew up in Boston, said that as a child, she often saw tensions between certain aspects of Western medicine and beliefs within Nigerian culture. She…

Mo’Nique continues to be candid. The Oscar-winning actress and comedian first revealed back in 2006 that she and her husband/manager, Sidney Hicks, had an open marriage.

It became such a talking point, the pair even co-hosted a podcast titled, “Mo’Nique & Sidney’s Open Relationship.”

But she now says she “grew out” of the arrangement.…

Deion Sanders appeared on “The Pivot Podcast” this week where he and the hosts, former NFL stars Ryan Clark, Channing Crowder, and Fred Taylor, shared their philosophies on life, parenting, and coaching.

As the new coach of the Colorado University Buffaloes football program, Sanders revealed that he’s already cut several players for having low grades.…

Passengers on a United Airlines flight en route to Boston had to tackle a 33-year-old man who attempted to stab a flight attendant with a broken spoon on Sunday. During a 5-hour and 30-minute flight to Boston, Massachusetts, from Los Angeles, a passenger named Francisco Severo Torres started yelling and ranting about “taking over the plane.”

A woman said to be the world's oldest person has died in South Africa at the age of 128 having lived through three different centuries.

Mother-of-seven Johanna Mazibuko, died in her Jouberton, North West Province, home on March 3, and would have been 129 in May, local reports said.…

4 Americans in Mexico kidnapping have lengthy rap sheets: Male survivor 'sold crack cocaine outside school,' one of men shot dead was busted for drugs manufacture and woman was indicted after daughter

Mexico Kidnapping Victims (From Michele Williams & Facebook)

The cartel believed responsible for the…

I Am Debra Lee – cover

Lookaheah, lookaheah! Debra Lee, the woman who used to run BET has written a new memoir called “I Am Debra Lee” that not only reflects on her life, but she’s naming names, too!

Specifically, in “I Am Debra Lee,” which releases today (03-07-23), the former CEO of BET included a new revelation that she was in a relationship with the…

Shaggy’s Ex-Manager Exposes Financial & Legal Problems In Clearing His Name

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*Over the years, federal reparations efforts in the United States have lagged in Congress. After the nation elected its first-ever Black president in 2008 and more than 400 years since the first recorded arrival of enslaved African people in the U.S., some government officials are finally acknowledging and engaging in the conversation of racial injustices and inequality…

With the fact that a dancehall track from out of Jamaica is yet to top the Billboard charts in years, veteran musicians have been pointing fingers at the younger musicians in the dancehall world. Beenie man and Bounty Killer have been very vocal in recent years about the new “Trap Dancehall” wave, highlighting that it’s not good for the genre.

Fat Joe Slams Father of Ja Morant for Getting Drunk at Games Instead of Parenting His Son | WATCH

"I don't condone it or any type of violence, but I take full responsibility from my actions. I made a bad mistake. I can see the image that I painted over myself with my recent mistakes. But in the future, I'm going to show everybody who Ja really is, what I'm about and change this narrative that everybody got."…