Category : Lifestyle

Award-Winning Actor Passes Away at 61 after Brief Illness

(Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) Hollywood is mourning the loss of one of their most talented actors. Andre Braugher, the intense television and movie actor who won an Emmy for “Homicide: Life on the Street” and won the hearts of viewers in the c...

Congress Must Strengthen Privacy Protections While Safeguarding National Security

Photos: YouTube Screenshots It’s a basic constitutional principle: law enforcement and intelligence agencies need a warrant to listen to your phone calls or read your emails. Agencies, however, have found a workaround. An arcane law, Section 702...

‘Hello Alice,’ A Company That Offers Funding To Black Businesses, Is Moving To Get A Racial Discrimination Lawsuit Dismissed

Carolyn Rodz, left, is a advocate for women entrepreneurs worldwide and CEO of Circular Board, a virtual accelerator for businesswomen, and Elizabeth Gore, right, is an entrepreneur-in-residence at Dell and she also chairs the United...

Reparations meeting gets heated at York

As the Dec. 31 deadline approaches for Gov. Hochul to sign the Reparations Bill sponsored by state Sen. James Sanders Jr. (D-South Ozone Park), elected officials and community members alike have voiced frustration regarding her inaction, and propon...

Lawsuit Claims Alabama Prison Work Programs Are The New Slavery In America

Photo: Getty Images Current and former inmates have filed a class action lawsuit accusing Alabama’s prison labor program of being a type of “modern-day slavery,” per CBS 42. According to the lawsuit, inmates in the Alabama prison system are for...

Alabama Prison Work Programs Are ‘Modern Day Slavery’, Lawsuit Alleges

Rich Township, Matteson to Give Bikes, Scooters, TVs and Clothes to Kids in Need

Rich Township Supervisor Calvin Jordan and Matteson Mayor Sheila Chalmers-Currin will be joined by state, county, and locally-elected officials and by over 700 incredibly happy children in a successful holiday giveaway and programming that has made i...

Craig Watkins, former Dallas County District Attorney, dies at 56

Watkins was the first Black man to be elected district attorney in Dallas County and is nationally known for creating the first Conviction Integrity Unit in the country By Frank Heinz and Candace Sweat • Published December 12, 2023 • Updated on Decem...

Mayor Adams’ Budget Cuts Shields Police Misconduct And Violence By Slashing Oversight Measures

Photos: Video\YouTube Screenshots New York, New York – At their board meeting tonight, the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) announced they will have to end investigations of certain police misconduct cases as a result of Mayor Adams’ Sep...

Gary Torgow Takes Helm as Chairman of Michigan’s Premier Business Roundtable

Business Leaders for Michigan, the state’s influential business roundtable, has heralded a new era in its leadership with the election of Gary Torgow as its chairman. Torgow, who holds the chairmanship at Huntington Bank, is set to...

London Breed’s $75 Million In Cuts Eliminates Reparations Office

by Daniel Johnson December 14, 2023 Breed has never signaled any real support for the reparations plan, the San Francisco mayor has repeatedly said that reparations is an issue t...

To Build Narrative Power for Reparations, We Need Infrastructure

Image credit: Image of Calle House by Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Composition by Devyn H. Taylor If the Government has the right to free us, she had a right to make some provision for us and since she did not make it soon after Ema...

WATCH: Black Landlord Surprises Tenants With Free Rent For Christmas

Photo: Instagram A Black landlord is blowing up on TikTok after giving her tenants a heartwarming early Christmas present. Britni Ricard, the CEO of the multimillion-dollar brand Cota Skin Care, uploaded a now viral video surprising the tenants of...

Wayne County Leads the Nation in PACE Projects, Paving the Way for Green Economic Development and Job Growth

Wayne County has emerged as a frontrunner in the realm of Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) projects, making significant strides in sustainable economic development and job creation. County Executive Warren Evans proudly announced today that Wayn...

Hollywood Casino at Greektown Rewards Cancer Survivor with New Dodge Challenger

In a heartwarming act of kindness, Hollywood Casino at Greektown recently celebrated the triumph of Tina H., a 53-year-old resident from Waterford, MI, who marked over one year of being cancer-free. Tina’s resilience and strength were recognize...