How Biggie Smalls Defines Hip-Hop and Brooklyn
Biggie Smalls is a hip-hop icon, and his legacy will be immortalized as an official street. Christopher “Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace Way is located between St.... Read More...
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Ava DuVernay and ‘The Exonerated Five’ Talk #WhenTheySeeUs With Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey interviewed Ava DuVernay director and the Exonerated Five for a discussion about the renewed interest in the Central Park case Sunday. https:/... Read More...
Natasha Tynes Sues Publisher Rare Bird for ‘Racism’ After Shaming Black Metro Worker
Natasha Tynes metro worker issue, made her sue book publisher Rare Bird Lit Inc.for dropping her title after she publicly shamed a Black metro worker in May. ... Read More...
Cyrene’s Reading Corner : ‘How to Slay’ Book Review
How to Slay The Book Review It’s a warm May afternoon in my beloved New York City as I sit in Bryant Park. Natives picnicking while enjoying a relaxing read.... Read More...
Mikisa Thompson Was Charged for Playing Malcolm X Speeches ‘Too Loudly’ But Voice Remains Defiant
Malcolm X Speeches Mikisa Thompson is deeply engaged in the work of Black liberation, a headstrong activist associated with Riot Revolt which seeks to organi... Read More...
‘Central Park Five’ Prosecutor Linda Fairstein Resigns from Charity Boards over ‘When They See Us’ Backlash
Linda Fairstein, Former Manhattan sex-crimes prosecutor who was integral in the Central Park Five, resigned from various nonprofit boards Tuesday. The resign... Read More...
Erika Woods, From Journalist to Fashion Model and Actress
Erika Woods Story By Hadassah Alpert Serendipity is more than a word in the dictionary, the iconic restaurant in New York or the title of the 2001 film starr... Read More...
Jay Z is Hip Hop First Billionaire
Jay Z is the first Hip Hop billionaire.
Forbes made the pronouncement Monday as part of their cover story detailing how the Marcy projects rapper went from rag... Read More...
Quilan Arnold Is Doing God’s Work Through Dance
By Marian Nimoh It is 10 AM on a sunny Saturday morning at St. Joseph High School in Brooklyn, NY where organizers are setting up for the "Every Body Move Da... Read More...
94-Year-Old Nashville Landlord Targeted by Developers Declares ‘I’m Not Selling Nothing’
94-year-old Evelyn Suggs is the owner of several properties in Nashville, Tennessee that developers want but she refuses to sell, not selling nothing is what sh... Read More...
The Growth of Tyler, The Creator
By Michael Cheripka
Since the beginning of his career, Tyler the Creator has done things differently. He began his career with the mixtape ‘Bastard,’ which con... Read More...
The Voices of the #SussexSquad Podcasts are Reclaiming the Narrative
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, have trademarked doing things their way. Supporters of the royal couple, dubbed the #SussexSquad... Read More...
Memorial Day Was Just For Black People Until White People Stole It
White people have been using the "all lives matter" excuse for hundreds of years as racist white people whitewash a day of honoring black lives on the Civil War Decoration Day, in favor of all lives lost in battlefields.... Read More...
Harriet Tubman $20 Bill Won’t Be Released Until Trump Leaves Office
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin announced Wednesday that the Harriet Tubman $20 bill will not be unveiled until 2028. It had been anticipated that the first... Read More...
