Oklahoma Superintendent Doesn’t Seem to Understand a Black Mother’s Outrage After Her Children Were Punished for Wearing BLM T-shirts An Oklahoma mother says her 8-year-old son was punished for wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt to school. Ben Stapleton, a third grader at Charles Evans Elementary School in Ardmore, was informed by the principal during […]
The couple exchanged vows in Palm Springs, California in 2017 after meeting on the set of Orange Is the New Black (OITNB) five years prior, where Morelli was a writer. According to People, the location of their wedding was the same spot where the couple had got engaged in October 2016. They marked their four-year […]
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Essie Justice Group, a founding organization of the National Bail Out Collective, is gearing up to bail out as many California mothers and caregivers as possible for a fifth consecutive Mother’s Day. According to recent study by the Vera Institute For Justice, incarceration in the country has quadrupled since the 1970s. Though the use of jails […]
Singer, activist and Red Table Talk co-host Willow Smith gave her mom the most heartwarming gift for Mother’s Day, proving that children really are their parents’ biggest fans. On Wednesday’s episode of Red Table Talk, the 20-year-old brought together Jada Pinkett Smith’s former rock band Wicked Wisdom for a special Mother’s Day reunion on the […]
In Atlanta on any day of the week you can find children and teenagers selling water on various intersections throughout the city. According to an Atlanta Police report street sales are the cause of hundreds of calls ranging from disorderly conduct, fights, aggressive behavior, arrests, and in some cases, an shooting. Meka Pless’s son, Jalanni, […]