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Source: Worawee Meepian / Getty Texas artist Vickie Valladares dedicated four months and 700 long hours to completing a mural in the children’s hallway of Greater Vision Community Church in Killeen, Texas. Up for a challenge, Valladares completed the special piece one week shy of the start of Vacation Bible Study. In what started out as an after-work hobby where no more than four hours a day were spent working […]

Source: Catherine Ivill – AMA / Getty Jay-Z and Roc Nation have come under fire for backing a program in Pennsylvania, which critics say aims to gut public education. A new campaign underway in Pennsylvania is aiming to get students from low-income households in Philadelphia into the city’s private schools. The Pennsylvania Award for Student Success (PASS) program is spearheaded by Jay-Z and his Roc Nation entertainment company, which also […]

Source: DIMITAR DILKOFF / Getty Luxury stores are still a big target for the criminal underworld. Thieves crashed a car into the Chanel store in Paris for a heist. As reported by Raw Story one of the brand’s most popular brick and mortar locations got hit last week. In the early hours of Monday, June 10 a team ram-raided a truck into the doors of the Chanel store located at 52 […]

Source: Gregg DeGuire / Getty Taye Diggs is shining a spotlight on schizophrenia after his younger sister Christian was diagnosed with the condition in her 20s. In an interview with CBS News, Diggs said he didn’t know what to do when he first found out about her diagnosis.  “I’m the older brother. Chris and I were very close,” he said. “I was born first and then she was born, so […]

Source: X screenshot A white man shown on a viral video brutally punching a reported Black woman in the face on a New York City street during a Pride Month celebration over the weekend has purportedly been identified as a managing director and partner who leads the business services franchise at an investment bank. The video footage reportedly recorded on Saturday in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn was posted […]

U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) speaks with reporters as he leaves the U.S. Capitol for the weekend on May 17, 2024, in Washington, D.C. | Source: Kevin Dietsch / Getty A longtime civil rights activist with a history of working with conservatives has defended controversial comments from a Black Republican congressman who recently lamented that the Jim Crow era was better for Black families in the U.S. Bob Woodson, whose […]

Source: Tom Szczerbowski / Getty The 6 God is back at it. Drake is choosing the Dallas Mavericks to win the NBA Finals and he is putting his money where his mouth is. As reported by HipHopDX the “Family Matters” rapper is putting his past with Kendrick Lamar behind him. This week Drake reappeared on social media with one of his first few posts since his beef with you know […]

Source: Shareif Ziyadat / Getty Howard University announced that it is rescinding the honorary degree it bestowed on Sean “Diddy” Combs in 2014. The decision comes after video footage was revealed in May of the disgraced Hip-Hop mogul beating his ex-girlfriend and Bad Boy recording artist Cassie Ventura in a hotel lobby in 2016. On Friday, June 7, the Howard University Board of Trustees announced that it decided to rescind […]

Source: kickstand / Getty Last week, at a multi-floor law office building in Buffalo, New York, a Black woman, an employee of one of the  firms, recorded a white woman, a Karen, threatening to call security on her. Why? Because the firm that the Black woman worked for was on a different floor than the floor–and the public employee bathroom–that Toilet Karen (TK) went all Christopher Columbus on.  TK had […]