After a string of buzzy awards show performances over the past year — and ahead of the release of his debut album “Montero” later this month — the question wasn’t if, but how Lil Nas X would raise the bar at the 2021 MTV Music Video […]
An HBCU professor is being praised for going above and beyond when a student needed help. A viral video showing Professor Aqeel Dix, Ph.D., a health sciences professor at Lincoln University, as he holds a student’s baby while instructing the class is being celebrated. The student needed a babysitter to attend class, […]
Twenty-five years after the death of legendary West Coast rapper and actor Tupac “2pac” Shakur, his unrivaled legacy continues to reverberate throughout the hip-hop community. Monday marked the quarter-century mark since he died from gunshot wounds sustained during a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996. […]
Gay icon and former Motown singer Carl Bean has died. He was 77. The Unity Fellowship Church Movement, the church Bean founded for LGBTQ congregants, confirmed his death Tuesday, saying Bean’s “transition to eternal life” came on Sept. 7, “after a lengthy illness.” “Archbishop Bean worked tirelessly for […]
Rebellious inmates at the Attica Correctional Facility give the Black power salute while Commissioner R.G. Oswald negotiates with leaders of the takeover. The riot began in the overcrowded prison after inmates discovered alleged undeniable racial biases with past prison sentences and parole decisions. A half-century after […]
Federal authorities reportedly investigated how a now-retired Bureau of Prisons employee leaked information about R. Kelly to celebrity blogger TashaK. while the R&B singer was locked up in Chicago’s federal jail. The disgraced artist had been jailed for four months when a now-retired Bureau of Prisons employee allegedly leaked information about the […]
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