Новости за 31.08.2022

I have to start this off by saying I went to college in an age before email (yes, we had color television, thank you). Having a cell phone was a luxury, which meant you actually had to be in your dorm room to get a phone call. So trust me, young people, when I say you can live without social media. But as a mother of…

Here we go again; another music fan violating the space of artists while they’re performing at a live show.

On Monday night, a slew of celebrities looked on as Serena Williams completed her first-round U.S. Open match — and possibly final pro tournament. Stars spotted included Queen Latifah, Coco Gauff, Offset, Bella Hadid, Bill Clinton and Anna Wintour. Though it wouldn’t be a stretch for Beyoncé to be in attendance, she…

When the official portraits for Barack and Michelle Obama were revealed in 2018, they caused quite a stir. They changed the way the world saw presidential portraits and forced the art world to acknowledge something new. The National Portrait Gallery had record attendance numbers and the Obamas’ impact was once again…

Residents of a small town in New Jersey awoke one day to find that all of the trees in their town’s square had been leveled by the city government. So what provoked this sudden aggression against the willowy branches lining the city center?

Now that the government has passed student loan forgiveness of up to $20,000 for some borrowers, one progressive political group is spending some of its own money to tout the policy to Black voters.

While the popular radio show The Breakfast Club may end up looking like The Breakfast Duo—thanks to the news of Angela Yee’s impending departure—cohost Charlamagne Tha God is confident that it won’t stay that way for too long.

PopCom founder Dawn Dickson is a serial entrepreneur who has redefined what it means to be a successful Black woman in the tech space. Not only is she the first female founder to raise over $1 million through crowdfunding under the JOBS Act, but Dickson has gone onto raise monumental amounts of capital through those…

Hip-hop fans, rejoice! Dr. Dre is back in the studio working with the likes of Diddy to produce an upcoming album for Snoop Dogg.

A new set of body camera videos have been released to various news outlets showing the aftermath of the fatal shooting of Jayland Walker, according to the Akron Beacon Journal. Walker was shot 46 times by Akron police, and the new videos show the officers trying to provide aid to Walker but also turning their…

I think we can all agree here that one of the most beautiful things about people of color is our melanin-rich skin. But when excessive amounts of melanin form in certain areas of your skin, it can lead to hyperpigmentation, a condition in which an area of the skin looks darker than the skin around it. According to the …

He might be down currently in the most recent Arizona Senate race poll against his Democratic opponent Mark Kelly. Still, Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters has a lot of thoughts about the Federal Reserve’s recent uptick in diversifying its workforce.

Embattled track and field star Sha’Carri Richardson is on the road to a comeback, and the first step is getting a big win to remind everyone how good she is.

Civil rights attorney Leo Terrell blasted President Joe Biden for a story he told in his latest speech about visiting a predominantly-Black, high-crime side of Pennsylvania. The point of the story was to emphasize his support for funding police, however, Terrell criticized Biden’s comments as being racist and then…

Another day and another Black person gets shot dead while in their home while a warrant is being served. The African-American community in Ohio is still mourning the killing of Jaylon Walker, and yet another incident happens to get angry about.

Ever since DaBaby made homophobic comments at Rolling Loud Miami in 2021, his popularity has taken a noticeable hit.

A wild but predictable thing happened last weekend: after the Buffalo Bills cut rookie punter Matt Araiza, who might be in steep legal trouble over allegations of a gang rape he allegedly participated in with his college teammates, fans of Deshaun Watson nutted up. Total silence. Not a peep.

Not that I expected Watson…

You can call him a visionary or just plain weird, but there’s no doubt that Kanye West pushes the envelope with fashion. His collabs with adidas and GAP have been wildly successful. But if the folks at GAP should have learned anything from adidas, it should have been, never, and I mean never, ever leave Ye out of a…

The water crisis in Jackson, Miss., is disrupting even the city’s HBCU football team, as NFL Hall of Famer turned head coach at Jackson State University Deion Sanders has taken his team off-campus, searching for hotels with running water in which the student-athletes can prepare for its upcoming season-opening game on…

At the West Point Barlett Hall Science Center sits a panel of bronze plaques, one of them displaying the image of a figure in a hood with “Ku Klux Klan” written underneath. According to The New York Times, the commission responsible for requesting that it be taken down decided not to because the plaque fell “out of its…

It seems surreal that New York City’s Time Square will actually allow people in the area to actively carry firearms, but the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down a 100-year-old concealed carry law has made this possible. In response, New York Governor Kathy Hochul in July signed a law limiting where firearms can…

In the second episode of Meghan Markle’s new podcast Archetypes, “The Duality of the Diva,” she and featured guest Mariah Carey discuss the complexities and negative connotations associated with having that label. But it was the conversation about both of their mixed race or biracial identities that got most of the…

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Going into the US Open, no one was expecting a huge run from Venus Williams or Naomi Osaka. Both are two-time champions and fan favorites, but neither has played their best tennis lately. Unfortunately, their singles tournaments are now over, as both were eliminated in the first round.

Nicole Linton, the ICU nurse responsible for a car crash that killed six people in in Los Angeles earlier this month, apparently suffered a ‘frightening’ mental collapse in the days leading up to the tragedy.