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Last Friday, the Shenandoah County school board in Virgina voted 5–1 to reinstate two schools’ previous, Confederate names. The board voted 5–1 to ditch the problematic names only four years ago, after the murder of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests across the nation in 2020. According to the Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative, […]
Giants fans don’t root for the Jets. Yankees fans don’t respect the Mets. Rangers fans don’t acknowledge the Islanders. New York is a divided sports town – except when it comes to basketball. The Knicks run the city, despite the team’s recent struggles. New York won one playoff game between 2012 and 2022. But that […]
Elvis Presley’s granddaughter Riley Keough won a court order Wednesday blocking a looming foreclosure sale of the late singer’s historic Memphis home Graceland, after her attorneys argued that the bizarre effort to sell the home was “fraudulent.” At a hearing in Memphis court, Chancellor JoeDae Jenkins granted Keough’s request for a preliminary injunction that will […]
“War!” a singer once shouted. “What is it good for?” Well, that depends. In the music business, what can seem like grand ideological conflicts are usually just messy public negotiations over money. That doesn’t mean they’re not brutal, though. And sometimes the amounts at stake turn out to be very much worth fighting over. […]
Asher HaVon is the champion of The Voice 2024. The Selma, Alabama native emerges at the very top of his class in this 25th season of NBC’s singing contest, winning Tuesday night’s (May 21) all-star finale. Team Reba’s singer impressed through the season with his powerful, honey-laced vocals, flair and big-game instincts. 🚨 announcing the […]
Muni Long finally joins forces with Mariah Carey on the remix of Long’s viral hit “Made For Me,” which dropped Tuesday night (May 21) via Supergiant Records/Def Jam Recordings. “When I got the call from JD [Jermaine Dupri, one of the song’s producers] to work on the ‘Made For Me’ remix, I said yes immediately. […]
Last Friday, the Shenandoah County school board in Virgina voted 5–1 to reinstate two schools’ previous, Confederate names. The board voted 5–1 to ditch the problematic names only four years ago, after the murder of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests across the nation in 2020. According to the Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative, […]
Let social media tell it, Millennials and Gen-Zers don’t usually find common ground. But, when it comes to calling out and critiquing how unspoken— and verbalized— traditions within the Black community are wielded against youth, they’re on the same page. Many young Black girls have long experienced comments from grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, older cousins, […]
Marcus Scribner is enjoying a new kind of freedom. The actor has spent the last decade working in the sitcom world: he first originated the role of Andre Anderson Jr.—best known as Junior—on the hit series Black’ish back in 2014. When the show ended in 2022, Scribner followed his elder on-screen sister to college, joining […]
Elvis Presley’s granddaughter, the actress Riley Keough, has filed a lawsuit aimed at blocking a looming foreclosure sale of the late singer’s historic Memphis home Graceland, calling the proceedings “fraudulent.” In a case filed in Tennessee court last week, Keough alleged that the foreclosure was triggered by phony demands from a company called Naussany Investments […]