Debt management can be an overwhelming and isolating experience for many. The emotional burden of making ends meet coupled with shame can feel heavy. Being bombarded by calls from debt collectors day and night only makes it worse. The average American credit card balance rose to $7,236 in 2024. Chances

Your fashionable neighbor’s new shoes. Your fit friend’s favorite yogurt. Your dad pitching you his alma mater. Influence has long been the match that lit the fuse to compel someone to make a purchase or develop certain beliefs. But thanks to social media, modern-day influencers now have a forum far

Civil rights leaders are still grappling with the weight of President Donald Trump’s swift and sweeping executive orders eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion and rolling back decades-old policies meant to guard Black and brown Americans from racial discrimination. But while many are contemplating and strategizing, it’s clear that civil rights

The Justice Department said Monday that it had fired more than a dozen employees who worked on criminal prosecutions of President Donald Trump, moving rapidly to pursue retribution against lawyers involved in the investigations. The abrupt action targeting career prosecutors who worked on special counsel Jack Smith’s team is the latest

President Donald Trump’s anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion executive orders are already impacting higher education where Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are concerned. On Friday, Rutgers Graduate School of Education’s Center for Minority Serving Institutions announced it was canceling the center’s HBCUs and Registered Apprenticeship Mini Virtual Conference to appease

There is no discussion of 1990s-era Black movies without films written by Barry Michael Cooper, the Harlem, New York, born-and-raised journalist turned screenwriter who penned “New Jack City,” “Sugar Hill,” and “Above The Rim.”  Cooper, who moved to Baltimore in the mid 1980s, passed away on January 21, 2025. He

The athletic department of the University of South Carolina (USC) issued an apology and suspended their in-arena DJ after a controversy surrounding song choice and the star of LSU’s women’s basketball program, Flau’Jae Johnson. After USC beat LSU 66-56 on Friday evening, the in-arena DJ — DJ T.O. — played

After President Donald Trump signed executive orders in his first week in office ending federal programs related to diversity, equity, and inclusion and reversing executive enforcement of civil rights laws, public statements made on social media have suggested that the 47th president of the United States also moved to end

In the wake of a Trump-led culture shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives (many spearheaded in the wake of the George Floyd protests in 2020), some of the biggest companies in the world have been showing us one by one who still values diversity, equity, and inclusion and

Skai Jackson is taking on her most rewarding role yet: motherhood. On Sunday, the former Disney star, beloved for her role in the family comedy “Jessie,” announced on Instagram the arrival of her first child.  Though she has not publicly revealed the child’s gender or birthday, the actress shared her