Here are a couple of facts that you might not have known about this day.
A grandmother in Germany gave birth to quadruplets at a Berlin hospital last week, May 19, and is now the oldest woman ever to accomplish this. Before giving birth to these latest four children, she had 13 kids. You heard that right? THIRTEEN. At 65 years of age, Annegret Raunigk is a single mom and also a grandmother […]
A total coalition of 62 Senators, 14 Democrats and 48 Republicans voted “yes” for Trade Promotion Authority on Friday, which will fast-track the piece of legislation that will allow him to be able to work and negotiate better with eleven Pacific Rim nations. That means that the deal will link trade between 40 percent of […]
A man in Milwaukee was pronounced dead on Tuesday after collapsing in his apartment. His family was notified and his body was already being sent to the morgue when lo and behold, he started moving again! MUST READ: Chance The Rapper Wants You To #SaveChicago His girlfriend who had not heard from him for about […]
As Summertime in the Chi gets underway, with all its wonderful festivals, beaches, and endless amounts of things to do, people in the city also know that the season can mean a higher rate of crime, and especially gang activity in some of Chicago’s neighborhoods. Chance The Rapper, who grew up in the Chicago neighborhood […]
In case you’ve been wondering what Akon is up to these days, he has apparently been busy with launching a new academy that is set to provide up to 600 million Africans reliable electricity. The initiative or institute called Akon Lighting Africa will be inaugurated this summer, and will be based out of Mali’s capital, Bamako. […]
Just as we were throwing our hands in the air wondering from where we might possibly ask for justice after the announcement came that Micahel Brelo, who shot two unarmed Black suspects in 2012, was found not guilty, it has been reported that the DOJ will be reviewing the case. The announcement came only a few […]
Khameyea Jennings, the 18-year-old from Jacksonville, Florida who was taken to prom by Jacksonville Jaguars defensive tackle Sen’Derrick Mark, passed away on Thursday. Jennings, who was suffering from liver cancer, had her dream come true when Mark picked her up in his Lamborghini, after Jacksonville’s chapter of Dreams Come True had approached the NFL team about Jennings […]
With 34 areas reporting from 43 voting blocks, Ireland has become the first nation to approve same-sex marriage by popular vote. This is despite the strong Roman Catholic presence in the country that currently doesn’t approve of such unions, and has been quite vocal in its disapproval. However, the popular vote, with a ratio of almost […]
Earlier this month, the House voted to pass the bill that would have ended the NSA data collection that has been on-going since the Patriot Act. But today, after hearing numerous arguments on all sides, the Senate has failed to pass the bill. The NSA’s data collection program which has made global headlines since it’s […]
When photojournalist Gillian Laub, began making a film about segregated proms in Georgia, she had no idea that her piece would turn into a much bigger expose on racial bias and crime in America. Laub, the photojournalist who brought a small-town high school in Georgia that still held segregated proms in 2008 to the public’s attention, […]
Women In Motion, a series of talks that takes place at the Cannes Film Festival, and draws some of the most acclaimed women who work in film, got a great dose of reality from actress/producer/director Salma Hayek this year. Hayek, who has always lead the way in various women’s causes, believes that top executives in Hollywood […]
