James Harden and Lil Baby made headlines in France this week while plenty of other events were happening back in the United States. As Blavity previously reported, Harden was in Paris for Fashion Week when police found him near a car which carried marijuana. Officers briefly searched the NBA star before letting him go. Police also detained […]
A Florida bartender has gone viral after he came to the aid of a woman being harassed by another customer according to FOX 10. Twitter user Trinity Allie was with her friend at No Vacancy in St. Pete on June 13 when a man approached them. That’s when bartender Max Gutierrez handed her a note […]
Johnniqua Charles went viral last year after she was captured on a video singing defiantly to a police officer “You about to lose your job.” The song was remixed and used during protests against police violence across the nation. To mark the one-year anniversary of her shining moment on Thursday, Charles went to Instagram and […]
Speaking with BuzzFeed last year, Charles said she was homeless and dealing with a drug addiction while doing sex work to survive. The South Carolina resident had also lost contact with her family, who were taking care of her 3-year-old son. But the viral moment changed everything. “I’d been on the streets, and they’d been […]
An locksmith recorded his interaction with several police officers who confronted him as he was changing a lock what he said was a predominantly white neighborhood. The video was shared on TikTok on May 23 and has been viewed over one million times. An officer tells the man and his colleague they because someone called […]
Angela Rye, an attorney and political activist, was the comment speaker. “As America sits at the significant crossroads of another opportunity to choose whom she will become,” Rye said in her speech. “She’s had so many opportunities to make a different and more constructive decision toward a more perfect union, and you all sit in […]
Tyrell Raby, a high school graduate in Louisiana, is going viral after he launched a dance party while receiving his diploma on May 17. In the video captured by Raby’s aunt, Alicia Vessel, the student showed off his moves while being joined by three friends who left their seats to dance with the Madison Prep Academy […]
The 39-year-old revealed in an interview that singer India Arie was the one who alerted her of the challenge. “I got a text from India Arie. She was one of the ones who was saying, ‘Look at what people are saying and how they’re dancing to your song,” the “Pocketful of Sunshine” singer told Vice. […]
Kimani Jackson, a recent graduate of Florida A&M University just released an ode to his experience at the school and the production level looks like it is something out of a Beyonce’s Lemonade. The Omega Psi Phi brother and member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia holds the title of 21st Mr. Florida A&M University. He […]
At just 11-years-old Damon Weaver interviewed then-President Barack Obama in 2009 has passed at 23. Weaver interviewed Obama on August 11, 2009, to discuss issues that were important to the children of America. During their conversation, the pair talked about educational issues, including school lunches (with Weaver suggesting “French fries and mangoes”), bullying and what […]