By Carmen Ribecca AND Nicki Swift/Updated: We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For a brief moment in 2011, Ted Williams captivated America as “The Man With the Golden Voice.” After a video featuring the once-homeless man’s smooth, radio-friendly voice quickly went viral online, people just couldn’t get enough of him. Williams Read More…
Rhea Bullos (age 11) couldn’t afford running shoes to compete at a local inter-school athletics meet. She covered her feet with tape and drew a Nike symbol on them. She went on to win three gold medals (400m, 800m, and 1500m) —
Image courtesy: Jaylen ChristieFlorida A&M University grad Jaylen Christie is set to release his first comic book, “Stink Bomb Man and The Brain Kids.” Scheduled to be released during Black History Month, “Stink Bomb Man and The Brain Kids” is a tale featuring three Black superheroes who work together to stop a nefarious business Read More…
What’s the context? The United States, Canada and the European Parliament have banned TikTok from federal devices due to security risks U.S. lawmakers are moving forward with legislation “to protect Americans” using TikTok from China, the House of Representatives speaker Kevin McCarthy has said, amid hot debate over calls for a ban on the video Read More…
A GREAT LESSON! Shaquille O’Neal said a few months ago: “My children are older. They’re a little upset with me, well, not really upset, but they don’t understand me. I tell them all the time: “We are not rich, I am rich.” They have to have a bachelor’s degree and then if they want me Read More…
The Last Poets: the hip-hop forefathers who gave black America its voice Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, Abiodun Oyewole and Umar Bin Hassan. Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives It is half a century since the Last Poets stood in Harlem, uttered their first words in public, and created the blueprint for hip-hop. At an intimate open house session, they Read More…
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