Bronx born ex baseballer; Roberto Martin Antonio Bonilla would be getting over $20 million at the end of his deal from the Mets till 2035. Bobby Bonilla who made a 16 years appearance in the major baseball leagues between 1986 to 2001 is reportedly earning $1.19 million till 2035 which means the contract with the…
83-year-old William Henry Cosby Jr. was finally freed from prison after serving more than two years over sexual assault charges which was overruled by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The retired stand-up comedian, actor and author was sent to the State Correctional Institution Phoenix in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania in September to three to ten years in jail on three counts of sexual assault. He was accused of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand who was a former basketball player in his home back in 2004. Bill Cosby was the first high-profile superstar…
1867 in Richmond, a Baptist minister, Nathaniel Colver was looking for an empty land where he could build a school for training Black ministers. After long walks through the streets, he met amongst a group of Black people, a fair-faced freed woman who almost looked like a white woman, Mary Jane Lumpkin, who said she had a place that will serve as a school, according to the school history as written by Reverend Charles H. Corey. Mary Lumpkin was the widow of Robert Lumpkin, a Richmond slave dealer who owned a slave jail three blocks away from the Virginia state capitol that operated between the 1830s and the 1860s. Robert Lumpkin owned and…
A 19-year-old black fisherman, Gary Duncan was wrongly accused of assaulting a white boy in Plaquemines Parish, New Orleans, LA, in 1966. Years back in October 1966, Duncan saw his cousin and nephew been rounded up by some group of white folks outside a newly amalgamated high school in Plaquemines Parish and approached them in…
400 years ago, during the slave trade where Africans were captured and taken to an unknown land far away from home to work on the plantations of their white slave masters, the enslaved men experienced a horrible sexual abuse in many ways. Many died on the ship before arriving to their new homes. Some were…
Former Jamaican sprinter, Usain Bolt, and his long-time soulmate, Kasi Benett welcomes their twin sons in which they celebrated through their social media on Father’s Day. The 34-year-old retired athlete shared a loved-up family picture with a caption that reveals the names of the new boys; Saint Leo and Thunder. https://www.instagram.com/p/CQWeB5dFGB0/?utm_medium=copy_link Bolt is…
On Wednesday, the president of Botswana, Mokgweetsi Masisi presented a diamond with a 1098-carat which is believed to be the third-largest diamond discovered in the world… According to the government of Botswana, the gem was discovered at the Jwaneng Mine, south-central of the country on 1st June. The mine is being operated by the owners…
A 27-year-old Zimbabwean, Mark Muradzira who is a youth leader of Risen Saints Church, Bindura in the central Zimbabwe almost died after fasting for 33 days and 33 nights in the mountain. Muradzira whose absence was noticed by his friends was seen on the mountain abnormally thin and weak after the 33rd day of him…
South African born, Siyabulela Xuza was born in Mthatha, the capital of Transkei, in 1989. Xuza who was obsessed with chemicals once reportedly blew up their kitchen in Eastern Cape when he was twelve years old — an occurrence that didn’t mar his ambition of building a record-breaking rocket and more energy-efficient rocket fuel. Siyabulela…
Umaru Dikko, who was the Minister of Transport under the regime of Shehu Shagari (1979–1983) when his administration was overthrown by the military and Major Gen. Muhammadu Buhari installed as the head of state. Some former Ministers under Shehu Shagari was jailed, while Dikko managed to escape to London in a disguise of a…