Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson has secured Shreveport City Council approval to establish a new downtown entertainment district, with construction expected to begin as early as late 2025 or in the first quarter of 2026, according to local officials. Representatives for Jackson say he will invest $50 million of personal funds in the project. Early work […]
A Jamaican national, Orville Etoria, who spent two months in a maximum-security prison in Eswatini after being deported there under a U.S. “third-country” removal program, has been returned to Jamaica, officials confirmed. Etoria was repatriated on September 21 with assistance from the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration (IOM), an Eswatini government spokesperson said. His […]
The Brooklyn Nets are reviving their fan-favorite City Edition uniform that pays tribute to Christopher “The Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace for the 2025–26 NBA season, seven years after the design first debuted and quickly sold out. The camo look, originally introduced in 2018 as part of the NBA’s City Edition Remix—honors the Bed-Stuy legend behind Ready […]
Dr. Quintard Taylor, the distinguished historian of African American history and founder of BlackPast.org, has died at 77. Born in Brownsville, Tennessee, Taylor built a towering academic legacy documenting Black life across the United States, especially in the American West. His scholarship includes the Pulitzer Prize–nominated Search for the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the […]
The Women’s Pro Baseball League (WPBL) will make its debut in May 2026, introducing six teams and marking the only professional women’s baseball competition in the United States. Interest is already surging. More than 600 women registered for last month’s open tryouts in Washington, D.C. the first women’s baseball tryout of its kind since 1943, […]