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Source: iOne / Urban One On Thursday (February 26), the groundbreaking scholastic esports platform PlayVS announced a new partnership with Urban One to create a gaming community dedicated for use at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) nationwide.  The partnership is set for three years, and will create a home for esports within the HBCU network with long-term infrastructure in the PlayVS College League for students in the network to […]

Source: Reach Media / Radio One Jasmine Sanders and DL Hughley are back at it on The DL Hughley Show, serving up the latest “What’s Trending” with the kind of raw honesty and wit about the Epstien files and the fall of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, who was stripped of his royal title and is facing potential indictment in connection with the files are sending shockwaves through […]

Source: Win McNamee / Getty As we mark another Black History Month, a moment that should honor the resilience and achievements of Black Americans, we instead confront a painful truth: Donald Trump has spent the first year of his second term in office making life harder for Black families, narrowing the pathways to opportunity that earlier generations fought to open, and going to great lengths to strip the nation of […]

Source: The Washington Post / Getty With the 2026 State of the Union just hours away, recent data shows President Donald Trump is wildly out of step with the people and reality. NPR reports that 60% of those recently polled think the country is worse than last year.  The same poll indicated the “majority think the state of the union is not strong.”  By many accounts, it doesn’t matter what […]

Source: Spencer Platt / Getty The U.S. Coast Guard announced it’s opening an investigation into a swastika found in the restroom at its primary recruit training center in New Jersey.  According to the Washington Post, a Coast Guard instructor discovered the hand-drawn swastika on Thursday evening at the Cape May training center and reported it. Adm. Kevin Lunday, the Coast Guard commandant, flew to Cape May on Saturday after being […]

Source: Reach Media / Radio One Sybil Wilkes is back with another edition of “What We Need to Know,” delivering the stories that matter most to our community. From critical voting rights legislation and vehicle safety alerts to an inspiring story of civic duty and a heartbreaking call to action for a missing child, here is a breakdown of what we need to know. Here is a breakdown of the […]

Getty The 2026 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominees reflect just how far the definition of “rock” has expanded over the decades. This year’s ballot crosses genres, generations, and cultural movements in a way that feels intentional — and long overdue. Pop royalty like Mariah Carey represents an era of chart dominance and vocal influence that shaped modern music. Meanwhile, hip-hop’s impact is undeniable with the inclusion of Wu-Tang […]

Source: SAUL LOEB / Getty On Friday, just after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs on nearly all U.S. trading partners were unconstitutional, because, as usual, Trump was assuming powers that are actually granted to Congress, a man who called himself “John Barron” called in to C-Span to complain that the SCOTUS ruling was “the worst decision you ever have in your life, practically…a […]

Source: Hunter College / hunter.cuny.edu/people/allyson-friedman/ A white professor of a public college in New York City was caught on a hot mic making racist comments during a Feb. 10 Community Education Council meeting about a proposal by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration to close or relocate a number of public schools. The educator, who attended the meeting virtually, is now claiming her remarks were taken out of context and that the mic […]