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• Cities with large African American populations like Chicago, New Orleans, Detroit and Milwaukee are becoming hotspots for the coronavirus
• In Chicago, black residents accounted for 72% of deaths from COVID-19 and 52% of positive tests for coronavirus, despite making up 30% of city's population 
• Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday: 'We…

Earl Graves Sr.

An American business icon is gone. Earl Graves Sr., the founder and publisher of Black Enterprise passed away from Alzheimer’s. He was 85

Graves’ son, Earl “Butch” Graves Jr., confirmed his father’s passing in a post on Twitter, saying he died…

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…

The UK leader's coronavirus symptoms worsened Monday, just a day after he was admitted for what were said to be routine tests

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved to the intensive care unit of a London hospital after his coronavirus symptoms worsened Monday, just a day after he was admitted for what were said to be routine tests.

Johnson was admitted to St. Thomas’ Hospital…

Many of the entertainment industry’s biggest and most anticipated events continue to suffer indefinitely in the wake of the COVID-19 scare. Will it take a long term toll on music artists’ careers?

Renowned Jamaican scientist Dr. Henry Lowe filed for a United States patent for a new cannabis-based drug that he believes can cure the novel coronavirus.

The coronavirus, also called COVID-19 first emerged in December 2019. It quickly spread across the globe, claiming almost 70,000 lives with more than 1.2 million…

• The death toll in the United States increased by 1,147 overnight to bring the total number of fatalities to 10,358 
• The number of confirmed cases across the country increased by 25,841 to bring the infection total to 347,516 
• New…

Beyonce and Jay-Z

Beyoncé and Jay-Z celebrated 12 years of marriage this weekend and the singer’s mother, Tina Lawson, marked the occasion by sharing a never-before-seen snap from their wedding on her Instagram page. 

One image shows a ‘just married’ Beyoncé raising the roof with one hand with the other holding on to Jay as they make their way back down the aisle.…

A donor appeal from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is seeking US$94.8 million to fund priority public health measures to help countries in Latin American and the Caribbean face the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

The funds will be used to carry out PAHO’s COVID-19 Response Strategy, which in alignment with the World Health Organization (WHO) aims to save lives and slow…

Dang, this is just the kind of craziness we definitely do NOT need to see going down at this particular time.

On top of that, it’s got top be a nightmare for store clerks to…

• Metrics model shows the US is 10 days from its peak resource use, when 262,092 hospital beds, including 39,727 ICU beds, will be needed 
• The University of Washington's Institute for Health warns that the protections for each state assume that social distancing measures are maintained
• It shows New York - the epicenter of the outbreak in…

CNN pundit Sophia Nelson is catching heat for calling President Donald Trump a “retard” in a now deleted tweet.

According to The Blaze, Nelson was reacting to a critical tweet about Trump from Republican Rick Wilson, when she replied, “They just always got an excuse to cover for his retarded ass!”

It didn’t take long for the “nasty ass twitter bully mob” to come for her. So the former GOP counsel for the House Oversight…

• President Donald Trump warned 'there will be death' as the coronavirus pandemic in the United States worsened
• Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States have increased by 100,000 in three days 
• The national death toll is now 8,162
• Trump thanked the sacrifices Americans are making with 96 per…

Tim Duncan, Kobe Bryant and Kevin Garnett chosen chosen for induction for 2020 Basketball Hall of Fame

*If you haven’t already heard, the late Kobe Bryant along with Kevin Garnettand Tim Duncan are among…

A New Mexico police officer was arrested and charged with domestic abuse and it was all caught on tape.

The disgraced officer's colleagues at the Albuquerque Police Department, wanted to make sure that the whole world knows that they don't allow women beaters in their ranks, so they videotaped his arrest.

Jeffrey Wharton was arrested last week, just…