42-year-old Shenita Russie healthcare employee from Arkansas, claims that she owes almost a million dollars in medical bills after she was hospitalized due to COVID-19. The mobile respiratory therapist, reportedly got infected with the virus while working with COVID-19 patients in Boston when the pandemic first started. When her condition got critical, she was placed […]
NASA has awarded the HBCUs Alabama State University, Florida A&M University and J. F. Drake State Technical College a grant totaling more than $1 million dollars each to enhance minority engineering programs and experimental research and at their respective institutions. ASU and FAMU will be receiving the grants along with four other colleges and universities across […]
An Arkansas woman who spent more than a month in the hospital while she battled COVID-19 owes nearly $1 million in medical bills. Shenita Russie, 42, contracted the virus while she worked as a mobile respiratory therapist in Boston in 2020. After falling gravely ill, she was hospitalized in Little Rock to be near her family […]
Barry Hankerson, Aaliyah’s uncle and owner of her masters, said he approved of Normani possibly using a sample of his niece’s song, “One In A Million.” In her newly released track “Wild Side” featuring Cardi B, Normani uses a beat that sounds similar to Aaliyah’s 1996 hit. Hankerson told TMZ that the Princess of R&B “always […]
Master P’s son Hercy Miller has signed a multi-million dollar deal to be a brand ambassador for tech company Web Apps America while playing basketball as a freshman at Tennessee State University this fall. The endorsement deal comes after the NCAA changed its rules to allow college athletes to score endorsement deals and earn money. […]
A Georgia man went on a date with a woman, but it ended with unexpected huge price tag according to FOX 5 Atlanta. The woman spent several hours with the man she recently met, enjoyed some food and adult entertainment at another establishment. The pair wound up sharing a bed together at a hotel. In […]
CPS has pledged to identify bullying by tracking repeated offenders and common locations, and training nurses and employees to intervene during and report bullying incidents. Attorneys for Taye’s family will meet with school officials twice a year for the next two years to monitor the reforms. Students assaulted Taye on two occasions when he was […]
Blue Ivy Carter, the first-born daughter of music moguls Jay-Z and Beyoncé, has already accumulated a net worth of $500 million, according to the U.S. Sun. The 9-year-old girl, who is quickly making a name for herself as a talented artist, is also proving to be an example of her parents’ effort to attain generational wealth. Jay-Z opened up […]
With a $4 million donation, Baltimore Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti is creating a scholarship fund in honor of the team’s former general manager Ozzie Newsome, the first Black person to hold that position in the NFL. Newsome made history when he took the position in 2002, and continued the role until 2018. “The brilliance of […]
Xavian Branch, a graduating senior at a high School in Jackson, Mississippi, earned a total of $1.5 million in scholarships from 20 different colleges across the country. The Jim Hill High School class valedictorian, who earned a 4.8 GPA in the International Baccalaureate Diploma program, said he accomplished everything that he wanted to accomplish in high […]