TJMS: If You Missed It
A Texas mother admitted to forcing her healthy son to undergo numerous unneeded medical surgeries from 2009 to 2017. According to CBS 11, the medical abuse began when Kaylene Bowen-Wright’s son, Christopher, was just 11 days old. According to officials, Christopher unnecessarily visited the doctor 323 times over the course of eight years. By the time he […]
Nike is changing the way it handles contracts with elite female athletes that choose to become pregnant, according to Sports Illustrated. In a letter from Nike EVP of Global Sports Marketing, John Slusher, to the company’s sponsored athletes last week, first tweeted by ESPN’s Emmanuel Acho, there was a clear change to the issue of pay for pregnant athletes. […]
Seventeen-year-old Dorian Harris reportedly shoplifted a $2 beer from a corner store and it cost him his life. Now, the store clerk responsible for shooting and killing the teen is facing up to 60 years in prison after being found guilty of murder in the second degree. Lawyers for Anwar Ghazali argued that the store […]
If you missed the Tom Joyner One More Time Experience at Toyota Music Factory in Dallas the past weekend, you missed a great party! Al B. Sure got the crowd going and even ended up in the crowd! https://www.instagram.com/p/B1P0oaZpJbZ/ Doug E. Fresh got on stage and did his thing! He’s still got it…not that we […]
Four Michigan, police officers reportedly stopped a 20-year-old Black man on the street on August 8 because a white woman called 911 after he “looked suspiciously” at her. Devin Myers was reportedly trying to go into a vegetarian restaurant but was questioned by at least four officers on the sidewalk outside of the establishment. Video […]
A Georgia woman is in hot water after authorities say a ploy to get even with all the men she felt had done her wrong apparently went too far. According to the Washington Post, Brandi Yakeima Lasiter decided to take revenge on lovers who had left her brokenhearted by posting to social media that she […]
First day of school photos are precious, there’s no denying it. But one Louisiana mom’s photo is going viral for what her kids decided to do before starting the school year. Jamisha Harris, of Baton Rouge, shared a prayer and photo of her three children — Eugene, 10, Jorden, 8, and Emily, 7 — praying […]
A New Haven Puerto Rico Festival continued its celebration as usual, despite a social media threat from a white man who was posing as a Black man at the time. The New Haven Register reports, 53-year-old Jeffrey Hanson, was arrested for one count of second-degree breach of peace after posting on a fake Facebook page […]
On August 9, Kalisa Villafana became Florida State University’s first Black woman to earn a doctoral degree in nuclear physics. She earned her undergraduate degree from Florida A&M University, and returned to her native Trinidad and Tobago to work. After a year, Villafana decided she wanted an advanced degree in order to provide greater career […]
David and Aaron Cabella, 24-year-old twin brothers from Philadelphia, aimed to fill a void by creating a business that will help get other Black-owned businesses’ products to consumers. Black and Mobile and launched on August 1 through an app the pair developed. David began learning entrepreneurship at a young age and taught himself how to design websites […]
