In February FOX Sports’ Gus Johnson received the 2021 Jake Wade Award for media contributions to college athletics. A Howard University alumna (1990), Johnson’s voice has vivified play everywhere from NCAA hockey to Canadian football. NCAA football and basketball, though, are where he endeared himself to a nation, including this year’s “Heartbreak City” men’s basketball
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Raised by a franchise-holding father, Dallas, TX, native and Hampton University graduate Alyson Rae Lawson knew what she wanted to do. While not running three McDonald’s like her dad, she has become the first Black woman to run not one but two Texas 7-Eleven franchises. Across the street from one another in Arlington, TX, each
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Black entrepreneurs are committing to their community and coming together to offer a $2,000 scholarship for two HBCU undergraduate students. Four businesses have teamed together for this initiative: Lauren and Zevi Lacey, Founders of Urban Business Directory, CEO Wesley Jacques of BlueDrem Media & Marketing Services, Gia Mac, CEO of Infinite 7 and Ashley Johnson,
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Three Delaware State University students are making a difference by taking part in a national competition, the Hope for Sickle Cell Disease Challenge, that raises awareness about Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). Two graduate students, Lindsey Hyppolite and Joshua Patterson, and an undergraduate freshman, Nia Allen, are competing in the challenge. Conducted by the National Heart
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Fisk University announced the start of its new 4-year graduation pledge, the Fisk Four-Ever Pledge, that will include a bonus Master’s degree at a discounted price. In order to qualify for the pledge students must follow the university’s “Roadmap to Success,” which breaks down the yearly requirements to graduate within four years. Students who participate
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Rapper DMX has died at the age of 50. After suffering a heart attack the previous week, the artist was hospitalized and placed on life support until his eventual passing away. Born Earl Simmons in December of 1970, DMX grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and he came onto the rap scene in the early 1990’s.
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By David Wahlberg MADISON, Wisconsin (madison.com/Wisconsin State Journal) — For Mao Lor, 65, getting a COVID-19 vaccine was painless and will make her feel safer leaving home, she said. “There’s no hurt,” the resident of the Bayview apartments in Downtown Madison said after receiving a shot Wednesday. “I need to protect (myself) so I can
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By Katie Lobosco About 8 million low-income people were eligible for stimulus payments last year but never received the money, raising concerns about getting the latest round of help to those most in need — yet there’s no sign the Internal Revenue Service plans to restore a tool that would make it easier. Early in
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Review by Brian Lowry “Them” inadvertently serves as a reminder of how deftly Jordan Peele threaded the needle of social commentary and horror with “Get Out,” and how elusive that target can be. Comparisons are inevitable to Peele’s films and HBO’s “Lovecraft Country,” but this 10-part Amazon anthology series proves provocative and bingeable while taking
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If they haven’t already, these two women are going down in basketball history as legends: C. Vivian Stringer and Dawn Staley. Vivian Stringer doesn’t need an introduction. One of the most recognizable names in all of college basketball, Stringer has built a legacy that is unparalleled by any other coach in the NCAA. Vivian Stringer
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