LEARN MORE ABOUT HBCU WEEK For Black History Month, we will spotlight some of the greatest athletes in Historically Black College and University History. Today we spotlight a woman who became the first Black woman to win a Tennis Grand Slam champion. Little Known Black History Fact: Althea Gibson Althea Gibson started her sports career […]
LEARN MORE ABOUT HBCU WEEK For Black History Month, we will spotlight some of the greatest athletes in Historically Black College and University History. Today we spotlight a woman who overcame childhood struggles to become a three-time gold medalist. Wilma Rudolph overcame a number of struggles as a kid including pneumonia and scarlet fever, and […]
The Chicago Police Department is planning to reintroduce their controversial gang database. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the Criminal Enterprise Information System is scheduled to launch within the next six to 12 months and aims to ultimately replace CPD’s existing gang database, which has been characterized as ineffective, inaccurate and outdated. “The vast majority of our […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW_UTx8upFM Eva Marcille is filling in for Da Brat in this edition of the Hot-Spot but bringing the same hot headlines! Watch the video above to get the latest movie releases including a release from Special K’s famous niece?! Who knew! Plus, Eva covers the latest coming out of Chicago and it is not good. […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCAXwO0FBFY&feature=youtu.be Last year, Kim Kardashian revealed she was going to pursue a degree in law. Now the TV personality is revealing the primary reason behind the career choice: “raising four Black kids”. LIKE US ON FACEBOOK. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER AND INSTAGRAM. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE. In other celebrity news, Future suffered a loss in court after a judge […]
Oakwood University A private HBCU, Oakwood University is located in Huntsville Alabama and owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Founded in 1896, Oakwood University’s purpose was to educate the recently freed African-Americans in the South. Its original name was “Oakwood Industrial School” and based on a 380-acre former slave plantation. Its early days […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZc-RT32nX4 We’re not sure how Black Tony has not figured out how to use Uber yet but we’re not surprised. He is pleading for someone (really, Rickey) to give him the number to Uber so he can get to work. Can someone please teach him how to use a smart phone? LIKE US ON FACEBOOK. FOLLOW […]
via EEWMagazine/Treva Samson // EEW Magazine // Parenting: Talk Show Host Tamron Hall is really busy these days from being a mom to hosting a talk-show and more! And on top of that, she will be on the cover of Parents Magazine. Although the Christian wife and mom makes it look easy, she doesn’t pretend […]
Attending a Historically Black College University can be the best experience that you create it to be. HBCUs are built on a foundation of culture. Listen to the stories of graduates that have amazing reasons why they are proud to be apart of the HBCU Family! It’s important to give back to our HBCUs as we […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxiy54E_OG8&feature=youtu.be Do we as a culture put too much value into material things? What about when love is involved? In this edition of Eva’s Corner, Special K, Da Brat, Rickey Smiley, Gary with Da Tea, and Eva get into a heated debate about the size of engagement rings and whether or not it should matter […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP6R6TQZpFM&feature=youtu.be Tamron Hall is a happily married woman with a new baby! But according to Nick Cannon, he could have been the lucky man in her life. The rapper, actor, TV and radio personality shared that he once sent Hall a luxurious gift in an attempt to shoot his shot. Now we’re learning Tamron would […]
Looking for a black-owned restaurant in your city? There’s an app for that. Entrepreneurs, Anthony and Janique Edwards, were tired of struggling to find black-owned eateries, so they created an app to solve that problem. EatOkra is a new app that connects users to black-owned restaurants in over 30 cities across the country. The couple founded the company […]