Kansas City police have detained three people in connection with a shooting near the end of the parade to celebrate the Chiefs’ Super Bowl LVIII victory. Kansas City police confirmed one death. But in all incidents of this nature, information
Kobe Bryant’s statue will be unveiled in Star Plaza in front of Crypto.com Arena, “The House that Kobe Built,” in Los Angeles on 2-8-24 — this date was chosen for the significance of those numbers. Bryant, who played for the
As unsparing as Katt Williams was last month when he nearly broke the Internet, laying low a swath of comedians in his path, Mo’Nique fired some nuclear blasts on former football player Shannon Sharpe’s “Club Shay Shay” podcast. During a
Entertainment mogul Byron Allen is digesting the legal equivalent of a very unhappy meal. McDonald’s pledged to more than double its spending on advertising — specifically with Black-owned businesses — to avoid allegations of racial discrimination during the height of
Observers commenting on Day 25 of the YSL trial in Fulton County Superior Court are not impressed with the prosecution’s case against rapper Young Thug and his co-defendants. The prosecution spent most of its time examining various posts on
Three Grammys and a new kidney for his 21-year-old son — that’s how Killer Mike is choosing to look at his trip to Los Angeles this past weekend. Misdemeanor battery on a security guard at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards?
Atlanta Police Detective Mark Belknap never made it to the witness stand on Day 24 of rapper Young Thug’s YSL gang trial Thursday as the jury was brought in twice only to be excused without any testimony to consider. “Ladies
Brad Holmes, whose bold roster-reshaping decisions helped the Detroit Lions win their first division title in 30 years, has been named the 2023 NFL Executive of the Year by the Pro Football Writers of America. Holmes, 44, the Lions’ vice
Days after lighting into columnist Jason Whitlock, calling him the “worst person in the world,” Stephen A. Smith had some pointed words for the Democratic Party. “It is an absolute disgrace on the part of the Democratic Party — Democrats,
Days after Spelman College announced it had received a $100 million gift, the largest given to a single HBCU, the United Negro College Fund announced that it, too, had received a $100 million gift from the Lilly Endowment Inc. “We
College football recruiting always has been a bit of a cutthroat business in which coaches have been known to say anything about a rival school — whether true or not — just to attract a prospect or to keep one
From the woman who initially couldn’t bring herself to acknowledge slavery as a cause of the Civil War comes the ultimate in hair-splitting distinctions without a difference: Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley says that America has “never been a racist
The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Miami Dolphins 26-7 on a bitterly cold evening in the Midwest. It got down to minus-10 degrees by the time the first-round AFC playoff game ended. It got even colder for former NFL coach
The pregnant, Black Ohio woman who suffered a miscarriage at home last September — and then was threatened with felony in December — won’t face charges after all, thanks to a grand jury in January. Brittany Watts seemed destined to
Lil Nas X says he will attend Liberty University in the fall, with “a dual concentration in Christian leadership and Biblical studies.” Imagine Liberty’s surprise. It’s a conservative Christian school in Lynchburg, Virginia. There is nothing about Lil Nas X’s
The White president at an HBCU in Missouri has been placed on voluntary paid administrative leave and is being pressured to resign after the school’s Black vice president of student affairs reportedly committed suicide because of “bullying and severe mistreatment,”
A Black actor who recently took to X (formerly Twitter) to call diversity hiring practices an “insult” didn’t seem to mind it when it also benefited him. Clifton Duncan, a classically trained actor who may be best known for his
Elon Musk, you got some ‘splaining to do. As the supposed champion of free speech, Musk’s X mysteriously suspended at least nine accounts on X belonging to left-leaning journalists and activists late Monday and early Tuesday without explanation. Hours later,
If taking Instagram-friendly photos and blue is your favorite color, Chefchaouen, Morocco, should be on your future destinations bucket list. Tucked into the northwestern corner of a country tucked into the northwest corner of the African continent, this seemingly made-for-Instagram
Lloyd J. Austin III, the U.S. Secretary of Defense and the first Black man to hold that position, has been diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer. It is why he was recently hospitalized for several days, leading to him transferring his
