Register for our kickoff of the first phase of the SpringMo Black Wellness Initiative
by BLACK ENTERPRISE Editors December 11, 2025 Flexible spending accounts (FSAs) and health savings accounts (HSAs) are pre-tax accounts that let you set aside money from your paycheck to pay for medical expenses—essentially giving you a discount on healthcare costs equal to whatever you’d normally pay in taxes on that
Legacy, legacy, legacy! While the Los Angeles Lakers might not be living up to theirs at the moment — taking a 119 – 132 to the San Antonio Spurs — the Carter-Knowles family legacy is thriving courtside. Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter was spotted at Wednesday night’s game sitting courtside with the
A’ja Wilson stood atop the WNBA again in 2025, winning an unprecedented fourth MVP as her Las Vegas Aces earned a third championship in four seasons. For that, she earned The Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year on Wednesday for the first time in her career. It’s the second consecutive year
by BLACK ENTERPRISE Editors December 11, 2025 The traditional path of working a full-time job until retirement is changing. The traditional path of working a full-time job until retirement is changing. More people are now exploring creative, flexible ways to earn extra income and build financial freedom on their own
by Kandiss Edwards December 11, 2025 The inability of artificial intelligence to identify the complexity of Black hair reveals implicit bias in AI training. Bianca Burch, a Spelman College AI Innovation scholar, is leading an effort called “In the Context of Curls: to improve how artificial intelligence approaches Black hair.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The heirs of an 83-year-old Connecticut woman are suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft for wrongful death, alleging that the artificial intelligence chatbot intensified her son’s “paranoid delusions” and helped direct them at his mother before he killed her. Police said Stein-Erik Soelberg,
Jennifer Shah, a former star on “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” has been moved from a federal prison into a community confinement program after serving less than half of her sentence for defrauding thousands of people. A Bureau of Prisons spokesperson confirmed that Shah was transferred Wednesday morning from
The power of Whitney Houston cannot be denied. Thirteen years after her untimely passing, the iconic singer holds the No. 1 and No. 3 spots on Billboard’s Gospel Streaming Songs chart with two of her classic Christmas songs. Houston’s take on “Do You Hear What I Hear?” ascended from No.
Six months after her daughter’s death, April Newkirk is still reliving the moment she learned her daughter, 31-year-old nurse Adriana Smith — then nine weeks pregnant with her second child — had been declared brain-dead. And yet, because her fetus still had a heartbeat, doctors kept Smith’s body on life
Less than two years after winning the national championship in college football, Michigan is again searching for a new head coach. Sherrone Moore, who served as offensive coordinator for the school’s 2023 national championship team before being named the head coach for two seasons, was fired Wednesday (Dec. 10). His
by BLACK ENTERPRISE Editors December 11, 2025 Flexible spending accounts (FSAs) and health savings accounts (HSAs) are pre-tax accounts that let you set aside money from your paycheck to pay for medical expenses—essentially giving you a discount on healthcare costs equal to whatever you’d normally pay in taxes on that
Legacy, legacy, legacy! While the Los Angeles Lakers might not be living up to theirs at the moment — taking a 119 – 132 to the San Antonio Spurs — the Carter-Knowles family legacy is thriving courtside. Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter was spotted at Wednesday night’s game sitting courtside with the
A’ja Wilson stood atop the WNBA again in 2025, winning an unprecedented fourth MVP as her Las Vegas Aces earned a third championship in four seasons. For that, she earned The Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year on Wednesday for the first time in her career. It’s the second consecutive year
by BLACK ENTERPRISE Editors December 11, 2025 The traditional path of working a full-time job until retirement is changing. The traditional path of working a full-time job until retirement is changing. More people are now exploring creative, flexible ways to earn extra income and build financial freedom on their own
by Kandiss Edwards December 11, 2025 The inability of artificial intelligence to identify the complexity of Black hair reveals implicit bias in AI training. Bianca Burch, a Spelman College AI Innovation scholar, is leading an effort called “In the Context of Curls: to improve how artificial intelligence approaches Black hair.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The heirs of an 83-year-old Connecticut woman are suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft for wrongful death, alleging that the artificial intelligence chatbot intensified her son’s “paranoid delusions” and helped direct them at his mother before he killed her. Police said Stein-Erik Soelberg,
Jennifer Shah, a former star on “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” has been moved from a federal prison into a community confinement program after serving less than half of her sentence for defrauding thousands of people. A Bureau of Prisons spokesperson confirmed that Shah was transferred Wednesday morning from
The power of Whitney Houston cannot be denied. Thirteen years after her untimely passing, the iconic singer holds the No. 1 and No. 3 spots on Billboard’s Gospel Streaming Songs chart with two of her classic Christmas songs. Houston’s take on “Do You Hear What I Hear?” ascended from No.
Six months after her daughter’s death, April Newkirk is still reliving the moment she learned her daughter, 31-year-old nurse Adriana Smith — then nine weeks pregnant with her second child — had been declared brain-dead. And yet, because her fetus still had a heartbeat, doctors kept Smith’s body on life
Less than two years after winning the national championship in college football, Michigan is again searching for a new head coach. Sherrone Moore, who served as offensive coordinator for the school’s 2023 national championship team before being named the head coach for two seasons, was fired Wednesday (Dec. 10). His