The sports world is mourning the loss of basketball legend Darryl Dawkins, who died of a heart attack yesterday. Dawkins was the first high school player to go directly to the NBA. He was selected No. 5 in the 1975 NBA draft by th...
The blogosphere is mourning the loss of Marcy Borders, 42, the woman referred to as ‘Dust Lady,’ after what would become an iconic photo of her taken by AFP photographer Stan Honda went “viral” during news ...
Emanuela Grinberg of CNN is reporting Major League Baseball Player David Denson, 20, has announced that he is gay, making him the first openly gay active player in league history. Denson, a first baseman for the Milwaukee Brewers&...
Faith Karimi of CNN is reporting that civil rights leader and former board chairman of the NAACP Julian Bond has died. Bond died Saturday night after a brief illness in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, according to the Southern Povert...
Nekala Alexander of Atlanta Black Star is reporting Moziah Bridges, 13, has built a successful business which has produced $200,000 in sales with his bow tie business. She writes: “His name is Moziah Bridges and he is the CE...
Lesley Goldberg of the Hollywood Reporter is reporting Hip-Hop legend and actor Andre Benjamin will star in the second season of ABC‘s hit drama American Crime. Goldberg writes: “The Outkast singer otherwise known as A...
Legendary basketball player Allen Iverson received the Game Changer Award at the 2015 BET Players Awards. The award was presented to him by NBA star Chris Paul and Hip-Hop icon Lil’ Wayne. Iverson received the award for brin...
Caribbean 360 is reporting that United States officials have submitted a formal request to extradite Austin ‘Jack’ Warner, a former Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) executive who is accused of r...
Yvonne Wenger of the Baltimore Sun is reporting Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has fired police commissioner Anthony W. Batts due to the surge in violence in Charm City. Wenger reports: “We cannot grow Baltimore wi...
ABC News is reporting that pioneering educator and activist Marva Collins has died. Collins started West Side Preparatory School in Chicago’s Garfield Park neighborhood in 1975. She also founded a style of education that cam...
