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Detroit is honoring Aretha Franklin by renaming a library after the late Queen of Soul. On Monday, Franklin’s family joined local leadership and postal service officials to celebrate the Aretha Franklin Post Office Building to honor the “Respect” singer. It was formerly known as the Fox Creek Station Post Office. …

Wendy’s is expanding its breakfast menu outside of its restaurant locations. The fast-food chain announced it is partnering with Kellogg to make “Wendy’s Frosty Chocolate Cereal.” The limited-edition cereal will taste just like the chain’s chocolate Frosty. The chocolatey cereal will also contain chocolate-flavored marshmallows. According to the press release, each bite “evokes …

According to reports, a former Hungarian porn star is accused of stabbing her 2-year-old son and putting his body at the checkout line of an Italian supermarket following a nasty custody battle. On Friday, Katalin Erzsebet Bradacs, 44, went into a Lidl store in Città della Pieve, Umbria’s central area, when she yelled …

California Governor Gavin Newsom is continuing the fight against racial bias in his state, this time by signing a bill that seeks to prevent deaths among Black women in childbirth. On Monday, Newsom signed a new measure nicknamed the “Momnibus” bill. It will grant free health insurance for up to …

A Michigan nurse is accused of stealing COVID-19 vaccination cards from the Veterans Affairs hospital where she worked.  Bethann Kierczak, 37, is facing charges for stealing the vaccine cards and the theft of the vaccine lot numbers that she used on the cards. Over a four-month time period, Kierczak offered …

Tesla has been ordered to fork over a hefty payment to a Black former employee who was subjected to racial abuse while working for the company. On Monday, an eight-person jury ruled that Owen Diaz, who worked at Tesla’s Fremont plant in 2015 and 2016, endured extensive racial discrimination and …

A Tennessee man is facing several different charges after reportedly kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman who mistook his truck for a ride-share. Randall C. Johnson, 49, faces charges of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated rape, and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Johnson picked up the 24-year-old woman and her male …

Target said on Tuesday that employees who work during the busiest days of the holiday season would be paid $2 per hour more. Store and service center employees who work on Saturdays and Sundays from November 20 to December 19 and on Christmas Eve or the day after Christmas will …

On Fox Soul’s Cocktails with Queens hosted by Claudia Jordan, ‘the queens” — Jordan along with LisaRaye McCoy, Vivica A. Fox and Syleena Johnson– discussed recent reports that claim R. Kelly plans to try to get his sentence reduced by providing the feds with names of other celebrity pedophiles. During the candid …

A Florida medical examiner’s office confirmed Tuesday that the body found in a wooded area in Orlando last Saturday is Miya Marcano. The 19-year-old had been missing since September 24, when she was expected to board a flight to visit family in South Florida. She was last seen at the …

Arkansas’ KATV anchor Chris May and meteorologist Barry Brandt are being faced with backlash from viewers after the two wore Afro wigs to celebrate temperatures dropping into the 70s following a blistering weeks-long heatwave. After the broadcasters wore the African American-style hairpieces during the evening weather report that aired on September 16, the station suspended the two …

On Monday a Florida middle school drama teacher was arrested for having sex in her car with a former student on multiple occasions. According to a police report acquired by the Miami Herald, the alleged relationship between Brittiny Lopez-Murray, 31, and the 14-year-old student began in August when the teacher texted …

Yesterday, billions of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger users could not access their accounts, and now Facebook has apologized for the mass outage. Santosh Janardhan, Facebook’s vice president of infrastructure, said in a blog post: “To all the people and businesses around the world who depend on us, we are sorry for the …

Howard University has partnered with Netflix to establish a scholarship fund honoring the late actor Chadwick Boseman. The Chadwick A. Boseman Memorial Scholarship is a $5.4 million endowment that will benefit students in his alma mater enrolled in the College of Fine Arts. Each class year, a scholarship will be …

Williams Shatner is going to space with the help of Jeff Bezos‘ Blue Origin. It looks like Captain Kirk is back in action. On Monday, the 90-year-old actor announced he’d be traveling to space on the next Blue Origin flight. “I’ve heard about space for a long time now,” Shatner …