-
Black-Owned Bank OneUnited Offers the Blackest Royalty Bank Card Money Can Buy
Just when you thought it couldn’t get no blacker … BLAOW! Turns out that royalty is in more than our DNA; it’s in our ATMs, too. OneUnited, the nation’s largest black-owned bank, recently announced its latest Royalty campaign to celebrate the power of melanated money. An official OneUnited statement on the Queen card reads: [F]rom…
-
Try Again: Lori Loughlin and Husband Face Harsher Charges After Rejecting Plea Deal
Lori Loughlin thought that her being a wealthy white woman legal defense would save her. Yeah…she thought. But reality comes at you fast. Last week, the Full House actress was seen outside the courtroom like business as usual, signing autographs for all the Aunt Becky fans that came to see her. Loughlin, one of the…
-
Watch: Washington Wizards’ Wizdom Dance Squad Milly Rocks, Twerks and Tootsie Rolls, and They're All Older Than 50
Who said Auntie can’t have some fun too? While most visions of NBA dance squads brings to mind young 20-somethings, a recent halftime show for the Washington Wizards showed that age ain’t nothing but a number. These wise elders know that one of the keys to life is found in living in fullest joy. Sponsored…
-
More than 750K Could Lose Food Stamp/SNAP Benefits Under Proposed National Changes
This week we found out that unhealthy diets account for about 11 million deaths worldwide each year. Donald Trump wants to raise that number by at least 750,000. Three-quarters of a million people—that’s how many could lose their benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, later this year under a new proposal from…
-
Los Angeles Gangs Reportedly Host Largest Peace Rally Since L.A. Riots in Honor of Nipsey Hussle
In the wake of the tragic loss of Ermias “Nipsey Hussle” Asghedom, rival gangs from Los Angeles County marched Friday afternoon in the Crenshaw neighborhood to honor the slain rapper, Blavity reports. Together, gang members from Watts, Compton and Inglewood marched from a grocery store to Hussle’s Marathon Clothing store, where the rapper died March…
-
Phenomenal Woman: Maya Angelou’s Legacy Will Be Adapted for the Stage
The miraculous life and words of Maya Angelou are being made into a one-woman show that producers hope to bring to Broadway, Deadline reports. Her only son, Guy Johnson, is working on the project, which is being led by Angelou’s former representative David Michael Rich and Hollywood and Broadway producer J. Todd Harris. Maya Angelou—recipient…
-
President Obama Warns of In-fighting Among Progressives
President Barack Obama held an Obama Foundation Town Hall Europe event on Saturday in Berlin, Yahoo reports, where he talked about the main goal of his foundation—which is to encourage young leaders in different fields. He spent part of his speech calling out “cancel culture,” noting that it could backfire on activists on the left.…
-
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Reminds Code-Switch Critics: 'I’m From the Bronx'
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has an answer for her adversaries on the right who dissed her for supposedly faking a “Southern drawl” while speaking Friday at the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network Convention in New York City, according to HuffPost. “Any kid who grew up in a distinct linguistic culture & had to learn…
-
Don’t Believe the Hype? Cosby Claims He Never Settled
Just hours after news spread that Bill Cosby had settled the defamation lawsuit brought against him, Cosby’s spokesman says it’s all corruption. For those just crawling out from under a rock, more than 50 women have accused America’s Favorite Patriarch-turned-pariah of sexual assault. (Cosby is serving a three- to 10-year prison sentence after being convicted…
