Music and business mogul Rick Ross was given a proclamation from Georgia Congresswoman Nikema Williams on Monday, June 2, 2025. Ricky Rozay was bestowed this honor because of his work in the community, his collaboration with historically black colleges and
Gospel icon Kirk Franklin and members of the Kingdom Choir delivered a rousing performance to close out Blavity Fest 2025 in Atlanta on Sunday, June 1, 2025. The singer with the most number one songs (8) and albums (14) on
Hip Hop legends Goodie Mob headlined the kick-off for the annual “Wednesday Wind Down in the Point” at Victory Park in front of East Point City Hall in Georgia. Every year, thousands of denizens from the town and Atlanta area
Pusha T unloaded on his former friend and frequent collaborator Kanye West because of the latter’s alleged antics in recent years. The 48-year-old rapper, who was born in New York and raised in Virginia Beach, Virginia, under the name Terrence
In addition to demanding spousal support in their contentious divorce proceedings, Offset took the time to bash Cardi’s new relationship as fake. Cardi B has gone Instagram official with her romance with NFL star wide receiver Stefon Diggs. Rumors go
The sporting week was an engrossing one as the Indiana Pacers finally returned to the pinnacle of their sport, the NBA Finals, for the first time in a generation. Meanwhile, their female counterparts, the Indiana Fever of the WNBA, are
Instead of the storyline being the Indiana Pacers being in the NBA Finals for the first time in a quarter century, it ended up being the fact that Tyrese Haliburton was snubbed for the Eastern Conference Finals MVP. The Pacers
Rihanna suffered a heartbreaking loss as her father, Ronald Fenty, passed away in Los Angeles on Saturday, May 31. He was 70. The news of Ronald Fenty’s passing comes days after the Fenty family gathered in an L.A. area hospital
For Wintrice Stewart, a former track star and lifelong sports aficionado from Fort Myers, Fla., joining HBCU Elite was a godsend. One of the programs, “Elite HoopHer,“ taps into her passion and aligns with her post-graduate collegiate studies in sports
Tara Turner, Ph.D, is the founder of “Elite HoopHer,” an innovative and unprecedented camp for female basketball players attending HBCUs around the country. “Dr. T,” the former tennis coach at Clark Atlanta University, created HBCU Elite, an all-expense-paid, four-day trip
V-103 icon Greg Street, one of the of the caretakers and curators of Southern hip hop, was honored on May 28, 2025, by the city of East Point, Ga., during their famed “Wednesday Wind Down in the Point.” During the
While folks may be looking for the next Quincy Jones, they should be peeping out the first Big Tank. The musical supervisor for “BMF” oversees the songs and mood music for this enthralling Starz series. And he has demonstrated his
East Point, Georgia, Councilwoman Sharon Shropshire basks in the success of the annual “Wednesday Wind Down in the Point” concert series that her office was instrumental in bringing to life in 2018. Every year during the summer months, a cavalcade
Niko McKnight, the estranged son of R&B crooner Brian McKnight, has died. He was 32 years old. Brian McKnight’s brother, Claude McKnight, revealed the tragic news on TikTok that his nephew Niko McKnight succumbed to cancer two years after he
Under partially cloudy skies that spat trickles of precipitation, the city of East Point thundered with booming beats and iconic acts at the 7th annual summer sizzle called “Wednesday Wind Down in the Point.” Atlanta legends Goodie Mob headline the
Despite the fact that President Trump commuted the sentence of legendary Chicago Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover, he will not get out of prison anytime in the near future, leaving some of his supporters confused. Trump’s federal gesture does not
Mayor Andre Dickens received the Herman J. Russell CEO of the Year Award at the 46th annual Atlanta Business League (ABL) CEO Awards Luncheon at the Marriott Marquis in May 2025. Afterward, the mayor sat down with the ABL’s chair-elect
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ legal team boldly moved to call for a mistrial on Wednesday morning, May 28, and the presiding judge quickly slapped it down. Diddy’s defense team called for an end to the trial The defense filed a motion
R&B crooner Jaheim was arrested earlier this month, for alleged animal cruelty for not properly caring for his dogs. Jaheim, whose full name is Jaheim Hoagland, was charged by the Fulton County Sheriff’s Department in suburban Atlanta with six counts
Leona Barr–Davenport, the president and CEO of the Atlanta Business League (ABL), discussed the 46th annual “CEO Awards Luncheon” at the Marriott Marquis in downtown Atlanta. The ABL, Atlanta’s oldest minority business development and advocacy organization, hosted the event to
