William Jonathan Drayton Jr, better known as Flavor Flav, is one of the world’s best-known hypemen. Importantly, he’s become an adored social media figure in recent years. From using his own money to sponsor women swim athletes in the Olympics to being a diehard Taylor Swift fan, Flav has touched a younger audience, though he […]
“I promised myself before I got out of that bus that no matter what the outcome was that, you know, I was just going to try to do better for myself,” he told ABC News. “I knew that I wanted to better myself, and I did that.” McKinley was arrested for a gang-related murder when […]
The newest installation of The Color Purple came out on Christmas day and is already performing in a promising way for Warner Bros. Pictures. Blitz Bazawule directed the movie musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s award-winning novel which serves as a retelling of the iconic 1985- The Color Purple film, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring […]
YOU SERVED. YOU DESERVE. Brian Reese was good at masking his PTSD, bipolar disorder, depression, and anxiety. He even told himself he did not “deserve” benefits, which he later discovered was complete bullshit. As an air force officer deployed to Afghanistan, he embodied the motto of “service before self.” Unfortunately, […]
90-year-old Thelma Jones from Southfield, Michigan recently earned her 5th-degree black belt in Isshinryu karate and she’s not planning to just stop now. Jones has been practicing karate for 50 years and still takes karate lessons 3 times a week at Southfield Martial Arts. Jones instructor, Willie Adams, who is a 77-year-old grandmaster with a […]
Eliza Ann Grier born enslaved in North Carolina earned her M.D., and in 1898 she became the first Black woman to practice medicine in Georgia. It took her 8-years to finish her bachelor’s degree in education from Fisk University in 1891 because she took every other year off to pick cotton and perform other work […]
As Blavity previously reported, the teen aspires to be a coach for an NBA team and join NASA. She also has appeared in a commercial with Stephen Curry. Of her spelling bee win, Avant-garde said she’s happy “I can go out like my Guinness world records, just leave it right there and walk off.” Zaila […]
Junius G. Groves earned the title “Potato King of the World” in 1902 for growing the most bushels of potatoes per acre than anyone else at the time In the early 20th century one of the most successful Black men in America was Junius G. Groves a self-educated farmer, landowner, and entrepreneur. Groves was born […]