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Veronica Fraley is currently living out her dreams as a part of Team USA’s Track and Field team at the 2024 Summer Olympics. However, the 2024 NCAA discus champion expressed that she was struggling to pay her rent which caught the eye of Flava Flav and Alexis Ohanian. On Thursday (August 1), Veronica Fraley took to X, formerly Twitter, to share with her followers that her school, Vanderbilt University, didn’t […]

Source: Theo Wargo / Getty Drake may be done going back and forth with Kendrick Lamar, but it seems like A$AP Rocky isn’t letting the King of the North off the hook that easily for speaking sideways about his queen, Rihanna. Months after A$AP Rocky took a subliminal shot at Drake on Kid Cudi’s “WOW,” the Harlem rapper is at it again as he throws another indirect dart at the […]

Source: Courtesy / HBCU Week Foundation The HBCU Week Foundation is bringing its college fair back to Walt Disney World Resort for the second time, spotlighting Disney’s commitment to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Read more about the college fair inside. The HBCU Week Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to encouraging high school students to enroll in HBCUs, providing scholarship dollars for their education, and creating a pipeline […]

Source: Jason Armond / Getty Who actually thought that Donald Trump in a room of real, Black, seasoned journalists wasn’t going to be a whole disastrous insult to Black people–to reasonable people of any race? When it was first announced that Donald Trump was invited to participate in a Q&A session at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) annual convention in Chicago, plenty of people warned it was a […]

Source: PixelCatchers / Getty Is that my bestie in a Tessy? August 1st is National Girlfriend Day. Ladies, leave your man at home! Commonly mistaken, this day isn’t for romantic relationships. National Girlfriend Day is an annual holiday to celebrate the women in your life! It is unclear who or what created the National holiday, but is reported to have been first celebrated around 2004. RELATED: Top 5 Black Women Trailblazers in […]

Source: nedomacki / Getty If your diet is rich in processed red meat, you could be at a higher risk of developing dementia. That’s according to new research revealed July 31 at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Philadelphia. The findings are the result of a four-decade study of more than 130,000 adults. Researchers looked at the link between diet and cognition. They define processed red meat as bacon, bologna […]

Source: ELIJAH NOUVELAGE / Getty Social media users had a field day mocking Donald Trump after his slur against  Kamala Harris’ racial identity during an NABJ panel. On Wednesday (July 31), Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump took part in a contentious interview at the National Association for Black Journalists convention. Trump disparaged Vice President and presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris by questioning her racial identity. “She was always of Indian […]

Simone Biles embodies the wisdom of the late, great Black Audre Lorde, who said, "Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” The post Simone Biles: Walking The Path The Greatest Of Black Women Leaders Have Walked appeared first on NewsOne. The post Simone Biles: Walking The Path The Greatest Of Black Women Leaders Have Walked appeared first on Black America […]