By Tashi McQueen, AFRO Political Writer, Report For America Corps Member, tmcqueen@afro.com D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that $16.4 million will be spread amongst 113 nonprofit organizations to expand opportunities beyond what schools offer. Approximately 15,000 school children will benefit from this increase. The investment comes from a fund that aims to connect students with
*Chrisette Michele is still in an ongoing divorce from her estranged husband Doug “Biggs” Ellison. A few weeks back, Chrisette took to Instagram to update her fans on the progress of divorcing Ellison, her husband of two years. As previously reported, the pair tied the knot in 2016 and decided to call it quits in
*Rapper Ja Rule was a big name in the 1990s and 2000s when each music he released was a hit. His songs, such as “Always on Time (featuring Ashanti) and “Between Me and You” (featuring Christina Milian), were hard to ignore in those days, and even in these days. But from the early 2000s, the rapper
*(CNN) — Britain’s royal hierarchy has changed dramatically in the past several weeks after King Charles III became the country’s first new monarch for seven decades and several of his relatives stepped into new roles. But there is a troubling familiarity to the first major crisis to grip the newly reorganized institution. The royals are
*We’ll make this quick and simple. Dark & Lovely is celebrating its 50th anniversary and is reaching out to share an opportunity for you to win $5000 courtesy of the brand and the BrainTrust Founders Studio. Dark & Lovely is hosting a pitch competition aimed at closing the opportunity gap and creating paths to success
*Tuhday’s Social Heat is all about the mens. Word on the curb is Deion Sanders is considering taking a head coaching job at the University of Colorado for $5 million annually, leaving his post at Jackson State. Many fans expressed their disappointment in Sanders and took the move as the Football Hall of Famer abandoning
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By Alexis Taylor, AFRO News Editor Family, friends and fans of slain rapper Kirsnick Khari Ball, better known by his stage moniker “Takeoff,” finally received answers today. Police arrested and charged Patrick Xavier Clark with murder on Dec. 1 for the shooting that claimed Takeoff’s life in the early morning hours of Nov. 1. According
Pinky Cole, the founder, and CEO of Slutty Vegan, comes back home this weekend. Photo credit: Drea Nicole Photography Pinky Cole, the founder, and CEO of Slutty Vegan, comes back home this weekend. The philanthropist and entrepreneur brings the Pinky Cole Experience Tour to the Inner Harbor’s Baltimore Soundstage on Dec. 2 at 7 p.m.
by ARIAMA C. LONG Report for America Corps Member / Amsterdam News Staff The murky circumstances surrounding the death of 25-year-old Shanquella Robinson, a Black woman from North Carolina who died on a trip to Mexico with her six “friends” back in October, has not only spurred an international investigation but a fierce debate in