Featured Blog Posts – February 2022 Archive (124)

The first Black woman appointed to the Supreme Court will be extraordinary, but she can’t save the Supreme Court

8:19 AM PT -- President Biden just made the announcement official, saying, "I’m proud to announce that I am nominating Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the Supreme Court. Currently serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, she is one of our nation’s brightest…

Antigua and Barbuda has announced that the customary two-week carnival celebrations will run for only seven days this year from Saturday, July 23 – Tuesday, August 2.

Cabinet ministers discussed the scaled down celebration with no super-spreader events. The government is still considering vaccination mandates and will release news on this in coming weeks.…

The national anthem has never sounded better – thanks to Grammy Award-winning iconic singer Jody Watley.

She delivered a rousing rendition of the National Anthem to a packed crowd where the Los Angeles Lakers played the Utah Jazz on Wednesday, February 16 at Cypto.com Arena.

The celebrated trendsetting pioneer in music,…

Thousands of people from around the world have viewed the visual puzzle after it went viral on Twitter, and have come to very different conclusions on the hidden figures. …

Popp Hunna is a rapper and songwriter who is known for the mixtape "One Year Later," which had features with Lil Uzi Vert.

His girlfriend took to Instagram last night, showing off her bruises. 

She wrote, "All imma say is your going to jail . Your going to jail . Your going to jail . I protected you for so long , soooo sooo long."…

Robyn Crawford and Whitney Houston

Back in 2019, Robyn Crawford dropped a memoir about her friendship with late singer Whitney Houston.

Crawford, rumored to be Whitney’s longtime lover, describes Houston’s wedding to Bobby Brown in the book as well as the chaotic and abusive years that followed. Her book reportedly fails to mention the extortion plot against Whitney over…

Apple Music’s editorial team has chosen Shenseea for their Up Nextprogram, which is aimed at “identifying, showcasing and elevating rising artistes” monthly.

Brad Pitt says Angelina Jolie double-crossed him by secretly selling her interest in a winery they jointly owned ... sold it to a Russian oligarch, and he's now suing her to undo the deal.

Brad's legal docs, obtained by TMZ, are part of their never-ending divorce war. The 2 bought Chateau Miraval in…

Female Louisiana teacher, 36, pleads guilty to giving her junior high school students cupcakes laced with her husband's SPERM: Couple faces 150 sex-crimes charges for abusing children

A former teacher in Louisiana has been slapped with a 41-year prison sentence after she pleaded guilty to serving her student’s cupcakes made out of her ex-husband’s sperm.…

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Perhaps you’ve heard vinyl albums are making a big comeback, even as we stream music on our phones.

A couple of African American entrepreneurs are riding vinyl’s renewed popularity to worldwide sales from their small store on Chicago’s Southside. CBS 2’s Jim Williams reports.…

• • Disturbing video footage captured two boys fighting at a New Jersey mall on February 13
  • Bridgewater police arrived at the scene, and while one cop pulled the white boy away, the other tackled the black boy to the ground and placed him under…

A Texas A&M women's basketball assistant coach hit back after facing backlash for wearing pink leather pants and stilettos to a game.

'I'm unapologetically myself every day, I could care less if anybody thinks that I'm being extra,' Sydney Carter said in response to her critics. 'I'm not gonna turn up turn my light off because somebody else…

Trey Songz is being sued for 20 Million by a woman who says the singer anally raped her.

He allegedly invited her to a party at his Los Angeles home on 24 March 2016. he invited her upstairs but the Jane Doe, alleges that the R&B singer repeatedly asked to “get that ass” on their way upstairs. She reportedly wanted to have consensual sex with the singer but she told him “no” several times to…

In an often-overlooked speech given in 1937 in Nova Scotia, Canada, Marcus Garvey admonished his audience that real freedom was possible only when the Negro race freed itself from the bondage of mental slavery. 

Said Garvey: “We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but…

New Edition 0n Tamron Hall

On the Tuesday, February 15 edition of  “Tamron Hall,” iconic R&B groupNew Edition sat down with Tamron for a special hour-long daytime exclusive interview with all six members, Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, Bobby Brown, Ronnie DeVoe, Johnny Gill and Ralph Tresvant the day before their new U.S tour kicks off in Columbus, Georgia

New Edition reflected on their…

Troy and April Savage worship at The Refuge Church in North Carolina (Associated Press)

We all know Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous quote about 11 a.m. Sunday mornings being America’s ‘most segregated hour.” Two churches in North Carolina – one mostly white, one mostly Black – decided to address the divide head-on by merging their congregations.

More than five years later,…