LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jay-Z will receive the President’s Award during the 50th NAACP Image Awards on Saturday. The NAACP announced Thursday it selected the 49-year-old rapper and entrepreneur for “shedding light on the issues that plague the black community including systematic racism and unjust […]
Legendary entertainer Pearl Bailey was born on March 29, 1918 and raised in Newport News, Va. Over the course of her long career, Bailey won both an Emmy and Tony Award. Bailey started out as a singer at 15 on the amateur level, when she […]
“The numbers are very high and continue to sustain themselves,” said Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley. The organization is currently working out of two locations and actively working with city officials to identify a centralized location […]
Japan will reveal the name of the country’s next era on April 1, as the country prepares for the abdication of Emperor Akihito later this year. The current Heisei Era began in 1989, when Akihito succeeded his father Emperor Hirohito, who ruled during the Showa […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harrisannounced Thursday the rollout of a slate of endorsements in South Carolina, including one of its longest-serving black lawmakers. The senator from California hopes the support will show her ability to reach broad sectors of the critical […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Filthy Fuhrer and five other members of a white supremacist gang that was spawned in prisons in Alaska, Arizona and Coloradohave been charged in the gruesome beating death of a member whose Nazi tattoo was burned off his rib cage with […]