NASA engineer and mathematician Mary W. Jackson is finally getting her just due. On Wednesday (Jun 24) NASA announced plans to rename their headquarters located in Washington DC after the first Black female aerospace engineer Mary W. Jackson. Jackson, who was the agency's first American American female engineer in 1958, opened up opportunities for countless women of color in STEM who followed in her footsteps.
Say what you want about Curtis but you can’t deny he knows how to get to the bag. The rapper is now coming out with a disinfectant soap.
As the shocking news of the death of Bashar “Pop Smoke” Jackson’s death sends shockwaves throughout the industry, fans on Twitter are trying to make sense of the killing. Many of the Brooklyn rapper’s colleagues and fans have taken to the social media network to express their sorrow.
Chokwe Lumumba, the radical Black activist who rose to become mayor of Jackson, Miss., is dead at age 66. Lumumba was just the second Black mayor of the southern city, and one of the most visible members of the Black revolutionary movement to hold political office of a major city. Mayor Lumumba died on Tuesday […]
Chris Bosh just won his second NBA championship in a row as a member of the Miami Heat. While that’s a cause for celebration, the NBA All-Star is also in the midst of some serious baby mama drama.
An alleged video model, accused in the death of another woman, following a concrete-filled butt injection procedure was apprehended in Memphis, last week. Natasha Stewart, who also goes by the name Pebbelz Da Model, is famed for her “48-inch backside” and was wanted for questioning in the demise of a female victim in Jackson, Miss.
Joe Jackson is continuing to make headlines for his odd behavior after the death of his son Michael Jackson. This time, the Jackson family patriarch claims that it’s his estranged wife Katherine’s fault that their son died June 25th last year of cardiac arrest. In an interview with News Of The World, Joe claims that […]
Carla Hughes dodged a bullet, proverbially speaking, as she will not be receiving the death penalty as many believed she would. The former grade school teacher made headline nationwide after she brutally stabbed, then shot, to death her lover’s fiancée. In a state known for killing it’s personal labor force, a jury of nine women […]
Officials within the armed forces and civilians alike are celebrating the construction of a new ship within America’s naval fleet. Jackson, Mississippi bore witness to a unique moment in history, with Navy brass and local officials all celebrating the commission of the USNS Medgar Evers. Named to honor the legendary civil rights hero turned martyr, […]
Anyone that has ever attempted to join a fraternity or sorority signs up knowing the perils that may befall them for wanting to become members of the brother or sisterhood. In the decaying halls of America’s Historically Black College’s, the premise for joining social society’s are the same as any other, with the “dangers” and […]
