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Talk about a Mama’s boy. Shaquille O’Neal, widely known as Shaq, has dropped $20,000 for his mom to watch John Legend and Jennifer Hudson perform from an exclusive view. During his fundraising event “The Event,” Shaq enticed attendees to bid generously during the live auction by offering a hefty price

Bryce James, son of NBA legend LeBron James, reportedly received a scholarship offer to play basketball at Ohio State University, the same university his father once said he would have attended had he chosen to attend college. According to People Magazine, James received the offer during his unofficial visit to

Two people were involved in a shooting incident at Bowie State University during the Historically Black University’s Homecoming Weekend celebrations. There is no apparent connection to the circumstances that forced another HBCU, Morgan State University, to cancel its homecoming due to a campus attack by a gunman. Fox 5 DC

A new study conducted by UCLA establishes that attitudes related to medical racism can be countered by critical education. In the study, entitled You can’t dismantle what you don’t recognize: The effect of learning critical Black history in healthcare on perspective-taking, groups of white people were exposed to different history

Two Black female customers at a Dollar General in South Charleston, West Virginia, are suing the store on the grounds of racial discrimination. Kitrena Mitchell and Alexandria M. Shoffner filed separately against the business and the store’s manager on Sept. 13. The lawsuit describes a trip to the store back

Yusef Salaam, one of the wrongfully accused Central Park Five who served nearly seven years in prison for a crime that he didn’t commit, opened up to Esquire about his position as a Harlem city council primary race winner and how he plans to serve the city that turned its

Kirk Franklin will pull up to New Birth Missionary Baptist Church to perform a pop-up concert to promote his latest album, Father’s Day. Franklin, who has not put out new music in four years, dropped his new release Oct. 6, and plans to share with the Georgia congregation Oct. 9,

“Time doesn’t stop for you to figure out who you are in survivorship,” Lauren Tarpley told BLACK ENTERPRISE. “I live my life like a love letter to my children.” In an honest testimony, Tarpley acknowledged that surviving breast cancer means something different to each person. “You think that everything is

Owner of Brooklyn Chop House, Robert “Don Pooh” Cummins, and the Godmother of Soul Patti LaBelle reportedly have begun an exclusive and lucrative partnership with Walmart stores to stock shelves with the restaurant’s famous dumplings. According to AfroTech, the 79-year-old R&B singer and Cummins facilitated the new partnership through LaBelle’s

Some teachers across America have begun using a new way to quiet down their young students. According to a TODAY news report, teachers have started adapting Beyoncé’s mute challenge in their classrooms. The coolest new way to quiet students comes straight from Beyoncé’s “Renaissance World Tour.” The “mute challenge” from