*Gary Antuanne Russell is increasingly a force to be reckoned with in boxing’s junior welterweight division. Russell scored a knockout win over Jovanie Santiago in their match on May 29 that announced him as a force to contend with. His latest fight makes it 14 straight wins, all by knockout, for the 25-year-old. The bout, which Source

*Did you hear about this? The National Football League (NFL) is temporarily replacing “The Star-Spangled Banner”, the national anthem of the United States of America with “Lift Every Voice and Sing” (a Black hymn), as the honorable song before its 2021 games? In a bet, you’d wager correctly that some people are pissed about it. Source

*(San Diego) Late civil rights icon Emmett Louis Till’s 80th birthday is Sunday, July 25th and to commemorate it, Eric J. Chambers, host of The Jazzspel, a jazz and gospel radio show on Smooth Jazz 98.1 KIFM in San Diego, presents a radio musical tribute on Sunday morning, July 25, 2021 from 8am – 10am Source

“If you’re on probation in Georgia, some are required to do a values certification class. We want to be that training camp for people who

*Who’s bad? (Like Michael Jackson’s good-bad, though.) If you haven’t heard of Patina Renea Miller, she’s been putting in work portraying black women in charge. From the leader of District 8 rebels in the 2014, “Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1,” to the president of Panem’s freer world in the same film (Part 2), and Source

Will Smith disclosed the origin of his and DJ Jazzy Jeff‘s 1991 hit song “Summertime” on July 23 in honor of the album’s 30th anniversary. The initial

*Someway, somehow, given his insane past, on Thursday, the master funkateer himself, George Clinton, celebrated his 80th birthday in Los Angeles. 🙂 The man who created the funk bands Parliament and Funkadelic (or Parliament-Funkadelic, if you will) got his groove on with a “small intimate crowd of friends and family” including some of his band Source

*Dang, we’ve got yet another accusation against R. Kelly to report and it’s another doozy, too. New allegations from federal prosecutors claim the singer/producer sexually abused a male minor … whom he’s said to have met at a McDonald’s. On top of that, the feds are also claiming Kelly’s so-called crisis manager bribed a Cook Source

*OK, this is something different. Rapper Saweetie has a new song coming out. It’s sort of an in your face anthem celebrating exotic beauty (her own), and it’s called “Pretty B!tch Music.” Arguably, perfect for a culture that (perhaps above all else) values beauty and wealth. Jealousy alert: listen to the “Pretty B!tch” lyrics with Source

"The movies always show women cutting their hair when all is lost but I wanted to know the feeling of making a change when things are gravy," the actor said.

*There is really nothing new in “Old.” A theme of aging before one’s time in cinema and books is a recurrent topic as it is with time travel. It is the context into which the subject is placed and how it is played out is what makes it ordinary or extraordinary. In “Old,” the players Source

Tennis phenom Naomi Osaka joined the ranks of Muhammad Ali, Wayne Gretzky and only a few others after having the honor of lighting the Olympic

An Illinois teen is recovering at home after he was bitten by a Granite City police dog on Monday during a traffic stop. When the

Dwyane Wade decided to steam things up on his Instagram page on Thursday, July 22, after the former basketball player uploaded a semi-nude photo of his

*In foster care since she was 16, Kelisha Williams is closer to her dream of becoming a lawyer and going into politics as she readies to start classes at Harvard University this fall on a full scholarship. She aspires to attend law school, attain a high political office — and pay it forward by working Source