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WASHINGTON D.C. – What is Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert doing hanging out with the Chicago Cubs? That’s what social media wants to know. Gilbert showed up in a photo with the Chicago baseball team Wednesday afternoon. https://twitter.com/KosichJohn/status/880137837689135104 The team was being honored for winning the 2016 World Series. If you’ll remember, the Cubs beat […]
The pressure the White House is putting on the press finally cracked Playboy correspondent Brian Karem, who scolded Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders about the continued accusations from the White House that reporters do nothing but peddle fake news. Now he’s elaborated on the battle between Trump and the press on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, telling co-hosts Joe Scarborough and […]
Netflix has set a Thanksgiving Day premiere for Spike Lee’s series adaptation of his 1986 film “She’s Gotta Have It.” NOLA and her three lovers — The Cultured Model, Greer Childs; The Protective Investment Banker Jamie Overstreet; and Da Original B-Boy Sneakerhead Mars “please baby baby baby baby please” Blackmon — are all coming to […]
The news comes just a week after a judge declared a mistrial in his sexual assault case. Bill Cosby may still be celebrating his shocking mistrial, but not everyone is supportive of the legendary comedian these days. Ben’s Chili Bowl, a restaurant in Washington, D.C., known for celebrating Black history and culture, has repainted […]
Officials in St. Anthony, Minnesota, “moved expeditiously” to resolve the case and start the healing process. St. Anthony, Minnesota reached a $3 million settlement with the family of Philando Castile, who was fatally shot by a police officer last year, CNN reports. A joint statement, released on Monday, called the shooting “a tragedy” for […]
The administration has been unresponsive to concerns expressed at the first meeting, the CBC says. There will be no second meeting between the 49-member Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) and President Donald Trump. On Wednesday, the CBC Tweeted its rejection to Trump’s invitation for a follow-up visit at the White House. https://twitter.com/OfficialCBC/status/877604448113217536 A letter from […]
WASHINGTON – Mystery solved: No, President Trump doesn’t have recordings of former FBI director James Comey. “With all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking of information, I have no idea … whether there are ‘tapes’ or recordings of my conversations with James Comey, but I did not make, and do […]
Before his stand-alone debut as Marvel’s “Black Panther” in February, Chadwick Boseman will hit the big screen this fall as Thurgood Marshall. Directed by Reginald Hudlin, “Marshall” takes place in 1941, well before his landmark Brown v. Board education victory that ended segregation in schools in 1954, or his appointment as the Supreme Court’s first African-American justice […]
Darryl Aikens met all the requirements for his diploma and inspired the Golden State Warriors with his tenacity. Ateenager battling cancer, who inspired the Golden State Warriors, achieved yet another victory. WPVI-TV reports that Darryl Aikens graduated from McClymonds High School in Oakland on June 9. The road to graduation was fraught with aggressive treatments […]
Yet another police officer is acquitted of murder in the killing of yet another African American. Afired Milwaukee police officer who shot and killed 23-year-old Sylville Smith was found not guilty of first-degree reckless homicide on Wednesday, reports CNN. If you think that Dominique Heaggan-Brown lost his job because of the Smith case, that […]
DeMario Jackson says he will not return to the set of “Bachelor in Paradise.” According to TMZ, the contestant – who also competed for Rachel Lindsay’s final rose on “The Bachelorette” – says he’s suffered from anxiety ever since his drunken swimming pool sex with fellow “BIP” contestant Corinne Olympios during filming made headlines. The scandal caused […]
You knew NeNe Leakes wouldn’t let Porsha Williams’s shade on national television go unaddressed. On Dish Nation Wednesday, NeNe’s return to “Real Housewives of Atlanta” was brought up for discussion, and Porsha let it be known that she wasn’t the least bit enthused. “I’m glad she got her job back,” Porsha said in a dry, sarcastic […]
