Nadia Mohamed was voted in as the next mayor of St. Louis Park, Minn., a suburb on the west side of Minneapolis that just became the first city in the United States to elect a Somali American to that office. Deqa Dhalac of South Portland, Maine, was the first Somali American to serve as an...
Actress Keke Palmer made headlines earlier this year when she wore a see-through dress to Usher’s Las Vegas residency and seductively danced as he sang to her. It was then that many were introduced to her partner, Darius Jackson, with whom she shares a son, Leodis “Leo” Andrellton. As footage from Palmer’s girls’ night in...
Democrat Gabe Amo defeated Republican Gerry W. Leonard Jr. in a special election for Rhode Island‘s 1st Congressional District seat Tuesday, becoming the state’s first Black Congressman. The seat was vacated by seven-term Rep. David Cicilline, also a Democrat, who announced in February that he would step down to become president and CEO of the...
A Florida resident who suffered injuries while vacationing in Medellin, Colombia, is stuck in the country due to hospital officials pressing his family to pay before he is released. Michael Eugene Clark, a Clark Atlanta University alum, went on the annual trip with two of his friends last month, CBS News reported. While there, the group went...
Atlanta City Councilman Jason Dozier is excited about the future of Georgia’s capital. Through Comcast, two metro Atlanta nonprofit organizations, Raising Expectations and Inspiredu, received $110,000 in grants to bring more digital equity to the city. At Comcast’s announcement, Dozier spoke to rolling out about what the grants mean for the people of Atlanta. What did you...
A former long-serving officer in the suburban Detroit police department appeared in federal court this week in connection with multiple charges related to his physical altercation with a Black teenager this summer at the Warren Police Department jail. The incident was captured by the jail’s surveillance camera, prompting the Department of Justice to allege he...
