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Kansas Public Employees Retirement System at its March meeting made $150 million in commitments to private equity and real estate funds. Board commitments include: $50 million to TA Associates’ 13th fund, targeting $7.5 billion; $50 million to Platinum Equity Capital ... → Read More
Napoleon Jimmies made history last year when he became one of the first male cheerleaders to cheer for the NFL. → Read More
Singer Katy Perry’s fashion line has removed shows that some have said resembled blackface, according to the Guardian. → Read More
One of the country’s oldest Black churches just gave a huge donation to Howard University students who were struggling to... → Read More
A transgender student in Memphis said that she has been the victim of bullying at her school because of her gender identity, → Read More
A video showing three young Black men assisting a 100-year-old man who was struggling to get his wife into a car has gone viral online. → Read More
Joseph Walker’s funeral was attended by a number of people on Monday who heard that the veteran was set to have services with no family in attendance. → Read More
Jussie Smollett is finally speaking out after he was reportedly physically attacked by two men hurling racist and homophobic slurs. → Read More
Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams appears in a new advertisement for voting rights that will air during the Super Bowl. → Read More
Senators Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) have spoken out against the racist and homophobic attack on actor Jussie Smollett → Read More
Parents at an upstate New York middle school have accused two school employees of telling four 12-year-old Black girls that they had to be strip searched → Read More
Japan’s Naomi Osaka won the Australian Open on becoming the world’s number one female ranked tennis player, according to BuzzFeed News. → Read More
DMX was released from prison on Friday after serving almost a year in federal prison for tax fraud. → Read More
President Donald Trump has signaled that he will sign a bipartisan bill that would re-open the government for three weeks → Read More
Following resurfaced accusations of sexual assault by R. Kelly, Philadelphia Councilwoman Helen Gym introduced a resolution that would ban the singer from the city, NBC 10 reports. “If you’re a rapist or a child molester, you’re not welcome in Philadelphia,” Gym said. “I think we live at an incredible moment in time where we are […] → Read More
The family of Rev. Martin Luther King and the National Park Service announced that the home where the civil right icon raised his family will eventually be open to the public. → Read More
Martin Luther King Jr’s daughter is coming to the defense of a meteorologist who used a racist slur while saying her dad’s name. → Read More
A former teacher said she plans to sue the New York City Department of Education for $1 billion after she was fired for allegedly placing her knee in the back of a student during a lesson about slavery. → Read More
Rumors of Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) running for president in the 2020 election has been running rampant in recent months and it looks like the politician is set to announce an official presidential run → Read More
President Donald Trump, who ran his 2016 presidential campaign promising his supporter that Mexico would pay for a wall between the U.S. and Mexican border → Read More