Olympic champ Biles withdraws from all-around competition in Tokyo
TOKYO (AP) 7-28-2021 — Simone Biles will not defend her Olympic title. The American gymnastics superstar withdrew from Thursday’s all-around competition to focus on her mental well-being. USA Gymnastics said in a statement on Wednesday that the 24-year-old is opting...
African American Spelling Bee Champ Makes History
By BEN NUCKOLSJuly 9, 2021 LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Zaila Avant-garde understood the significance of what she was doing as she stood on the Scripps National Spelling Bee stage, peppering pronouncer Jacques Bailly with questions about Greek and Latin roots. Zaila...
In the Tyler Perry TV world, Black women go from being respected and desired to being the butt of jokes
by Professor Vikki Jenkins vikki@socaliptv.com Many black women who supported the early career of writer, director and producer Tyler Perry, were excited that his success led him from the strictly “playhouse” circuit to the “big screen”. Even when some members of the...
Boy Scouts of America sexual abuse victims rival that of Catholic church
By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press April 16, 2021, 8:41 PM DOVER, Del. — Insurance company The Hartford has agreed to pay $650 million into a proposed trust fund for victims of child sexual abuse as part of the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy case.In exchange...
AMA, who recently apologized for 120 years of racism against Black doctors and patients get backlash for efforts to fix problem they helped to create
AMA doctors meet amid vocal backlash over racial equity plan This November 2018 photo provided by the American Medical Association shows Gerald Harmon at the Interim Meeting of the AMA in National Harbor, Md. The nation’s largest, most influential doctors’ group is...
Mass murders, drug deaths, world’s high covid rates show America continues to pay for it immoral treatment of it’s African American citizen
America’s gun obsession is rooted in slavery Carol Anderson Fri, June 4, 2021, 6:00 AM Bodies are piling up all over the second amendment as two of America’s pandemics converge. The “plague of gun violence” and the inability to mount an effective response, even in the...
Gen z repeat same mistakes as their grandparents; everything on Tik Tok is African American culture
TikToker slams Gen Z trend for ‘whitewashing’ Black culture: ‘Everything on this app originated with Black people’ Kelsey Weekman Wed, June 2, 2021, 11:15 AM·6 min read Kahlil Greene, a senior studying history at Yale University, could be...
Byron Allen sues McDonalds; we make them billions , they return us crumbs and rhetoric like 99% of US companies
Byron Allen Sues McDonald’s For Discriminating Against Black-Owned Media, Seeks $10 Billion In Damages Byron Allen, the founder of Allen Media Group, which owns Entertainment Studios Networks, Inc, the parent firm of theGrio and the Weather Group, LLC, is suing...
Black Man Charged With Murder After Shooting White Burglar In Oklahoma
by Sha Be Allah May 14, 2021 A report from the Atlanta Black Star confirms that a veteran and father of five is set for trial for first-degree murder after he fatally shot a burglar trying to break into his marijuana business. 34-year-old LaRue Bratcher fatally shot...About Us
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