Photo Credit: Tinseltown // Shutterstock Taraji P. Henson is on a mission to help change the conversation and destroy the stigma surrounding mental health in the Black community. She launched the Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation in honor of her late father. The organization will provide scholarships to Black students majoring in mental health, offer mental health services to…… read more »
Photo Credit: JStone // Shutterstock Rihanna announced via Twitter (Aug.13) that Issa Rae will host, and Childish Gambino will perform, at this year’s Diamond Ball. Via Billboard, “The fourth annual fundraising gala will take place on Set. 13 to raise money for the Clara Lionel Foundation, curated by Rihanna in 2012 to improve health, education arts, and culture…… read more »
photo credit: Jamie Lamor Thompson / Shutterstock Drug Hill is Back! And with 2 new members. The group is coming back for their 6th studio album, and have added 2 new people for the ride. Coming from the 90s R&B group Playa, Jawann “Smoke” Peacock and Benjamin “Black” Bush, will replace Dru Hill member, Larry “Jazz” Anthony.…… read more »
Photo Credit: Mitch Gunn // Shutterstock Less than four weeks ahead of the 2018-19 NFL football season, two police unions inSuth Florida are demanding their members boycott the Miami Dolphins due to their demonstration against police brutality and social injustice during the national anthem. On Thursday, the Miami Dolphins went against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at…… read more »
photo credit: FabrikaSimf // Shutterstock You may remember the Clermont Twins, Shannon and Shannade, from Bad Girls Club Season 14. Since then the ladies have came up in the entertainment world, starring in Future’s “Real Sisters” video and even modeling for Kanye’s Yeezy Season 6 campaign. Well it seems that one of the twins can kiss her…… read more »
Photo Credit: Lukasz Stefanski // Shutterstock Lezley McSpadden, the mother of the late Michael Brown, announced her run for Ferguson, Missouri’s city council on Friday, four years after her son was killed. Lezley, known as one of the “Mothers of the Movement,” made the announcement near the street her unarmed 18-year-old son was shot and killed…… read more »
photo credit: bento rodrigues // Shutterstock On Saturday, a video went viral of a black police officer in Baltimore pushing and punching suspect who doesn’t appear to be fighting back. The officer was initially suspended. “I’m deeply disturbed by the video that surfaced online,” interim Police Commissioner Garry Tuggle said in a statement Saturday. “The officer involved has…… read more »
photo credit: JStone // Shutterstock Aretha Franklin has been battling cancer for many years, and now the singer has fallen gravely ill according to a very close friend. Aretha is down to 86 pounds at 76 years old, and a week ago, everyone in Aretha’s circle was told “she could go at any time.” Friends and family…… read more »
Photo Credit: FabrikaSimf // Shutterstock Dewayne Johnson, a terminally ill California man was awarded $289 million in damages after a jury decided Monsanto, the company who produces weed-killer Roundup, was responsible for giving him cancer. Via People Magazine, “Monsanto denies the claims their product causes cancer and told the wire they plan to appeal the verdict.” Dewayne is a…… read more »
Photo Credit: Kathy Hutchins // Shutterstock Tyra Banks has signed a first-look deal with Universal Television and Universal Television Alternative Studio and she will develop both scripted and unscripted content for the network. Although, Tyra is the host of NBC’s competition series “America’s Got Talent,” this deal will have no effect on her role. Universal TV president…… read more »