Culture, News, Sports, The Show
Editor Dennis Freeman conducts in-depth interviews with high-profile athletes, musicians, newsmakers and just people making a difference in other people lives.
Thank you, Stan Lee. Take a victory lap, Jack Kirby. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is in good hands. Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame is everything we wanted in the climatic finish to a decade-plus relationship that we’ve had with Earth’s avenging superheroes. To be exact it has been 11 years since Iron Man first invaded our world, […]
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By Brendan Campbell, Angel Mendoza and Tessa Diestel | News21 EUGENE, Oregon — Sergio Reyes and two other Mexican immigrants were busy landscaping at their worksite in early 2018 when they were accosted by a man hurling racial epithets and threatening to cut off the head of one of them. “It doesn’t matter if I […]
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By Allie Bice, Abby Bitterman, and Ashley Mackey | News21 NEW YORK — “If you attack one of us, you attack all of us.” Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the New York-based Union for Reform Judaism, wasn’t just speaking for Jewish people. As religious hate crimes rise in America, faith groups across the country have […]
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Brad Pye Jr. has had a history of firsts during his illustrious sports journalism career. The Hollywood Walk of Fame may not call Pye’s name, but they should. The “Switch Reels” guy made radio sports talk cool to listen to before it became customary barbershop gossip. The beneficiaries of all this coolness have been urban […]
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By Lillianna Byington, Brittany Brown and Andrew Capps | News21 JASPER, Texas — Former Texas prosecutor Guy James Gray keeps a 20-year-old CD in his desk that documents with graphic photos one of the most vicious hate crimes in history — the day James Byrd Jr. was beaten, stripped naked, tied to the back of […]
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MISSOULA, Mont. — Native American women across the country are being murdered and sexually assaulted on reservations and nearby towns at far higher rates than other American women. Their assailants are often white and other non-Native American men outside the jurisdiction of tribal law enforcement. In some U.S. counties composed primarily of Native American lands, […]
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LOS ANGELES, CA-Kenneth B. Morris Jr. is on a mission. His quest is to put the narrative about the life of abolitionist Frederick Douglass into as many young people hands as possible. To be precise, Morris wants to see one million youths receive the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave. “Well, […]
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LOS ANGELES— As he enters his 40th season as the “Voice of the Clippers,” legendary broadcaster Ralph Lawler announced his plan to retire following the conclusion of the 2018-19 season. Over the course of his tenure, his commentary has captivated fans across the sports world, creating a legacy that will last far beyond his final […]
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Hollywood, CA-What now, America? It’s hard to imagine a world without Aretha Franklin. A genre has departed from us, one which will never be replaced or perhaps seen again. Franklin kept us lifted and encouraged with her “Amazing Grace,” a song that makes you undoubtedly reflect on getting yourself right with God. She reminded us […]
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A couple of years ago, saxophonist Jazmin Ghent’s musical career took a bold step forward. Taking part in the “Smooth Jazz Cruise 2014 Opening Act Competition,” Ghent and other competitors had the luxury of trying to impress accomplished jazz artists such as Boney James, Marcus Miller, and Brian Culbertson. “It was these people that I […]
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The thing that Kevin Robert Harris II (Track Bully) loved most was banging out music tracks. He played the piano. He knew how to compose. Music became his universe. Basketball used to be his love fling, but as he grew older, Harris immersed himself into the world of making music. He became pretty good at […]
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LONG BEACH, CA-Entrepreneurs are individuals who are readily-assembled. They’re pre-packaged with creativity. Growing up in Long Beach, California, Kevyn Palmer always knew the creative juices that bubbled inside of him as a youth would someday navigate its way into fruition. “When I came out with my first brand, Positive Reaction, I wanted to see more […]
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Audra McDonald doesn’t know how to do anything but be great. She sings. She acts. The breadth of her unparalleled success has skyrocketed McDonald to recognition as entertainment royalty. Her unprecedented six Tony Awards, five Drama Desk Awards and Emmy honor tells you a lot about the type of thespian she is. When she took […]
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Steven Burton is someone you might consider to be a revolutionary. In a good sense. The 33-year-old entrepreneur is making waves in the tuxedo and formal wear industry, creating a space called his own with the company he founded-Perfect Tux. In just a year and a half, Perfect Tux has made over $800,000 in revenue. […]
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The hardest thing to adjust to since my move from New York to Los Angeles has been all the driving, which I know is a basic and “new to LA” complaint that people are sick of hearing about. But recently I started obsessing over Daniel Caesar’s album Freudian—just in time for its Grammy nomination—and everything […]
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