Author: Dorcas Onasa

For the first time in seven years, a commercial aircraft carrying passengers from the United States touched down in Caracas, Venezuela, on Thursday and for many on board, the moment was nothing short of life changing. The inaugural flight, operated by Envoy Air, a subsidiary of American Airlines, departed Miami International Airport just after 10 a.m. EDT and landed in the Venezuelan capital roughly three hours later, drawing an outpouring of emotion from passengers, airport staff and the wider Venezuelan community watching from afar. The flight’s resumption comes after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security suspended direct service to Venezuela…

Spotify is taking a direct swing at the growing wave of AI-generated music flooding its platform, and this time it is doing so with a visual cue that listeners will be able to spot immediately. The streaming company is rolling out a new green checkmark badge called Verified by Spotify, designed to help users distinguish between human artists genuinely building careers in music and accounts pushing out artificially generated content. The badges will begin appearing on artist profiles in the coming weeks and will be awarded only after a human review process  not an automated filter. That distinction matters, because…

Jackie B. Grice had the title, the contracts, and the company. What she did not have, for years, was herself. Grice and her husband built J. Diamond, Inc. operating as Agape Travel and Tours into a multimillion-dollar transportation company offering charter buses, shuttles, vans, black cars, and government contracts. By any measure, it was a success story. But inside that story was a woman who had quietly stopped tending to herself in order to tend to everything else. A business built in a space not designed for them The charter transportation industry is overwhelmingly white and male. Grice describes walking…

On May 1, New York City will become the center of one of the most widely organized labor actions in recent memory. The May Day Strong rally and march is drawing together a coalition of more than 500 labor unions alongside immigrant rights groups and community organizations from across the country, all converging around a shared demand: that working people be prioritized over the wealthy and powerful. The coalition’s rally cry No Work, No School, No Shopping is a deliberate call for broad participation, encouraging people from every corner of society to pause, step outside and make their collective presence…

Gary Jenkins, draws from a childhood shaped by poverty and instability to lead one of New York City’s most vital organizations serving unhoused adults. Growing up as the youngest of eight children in a single parent home in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Gary Jenkins learned early what it meant to stretch a dollar and navigate uncertainty. Financial instability was a constant, and the world around him shaped by incarceration, substance abuse and systemic neglect made it easy to imagine only a narrow set of futures. But Jenkins, now 59, found his way out through the guidance of two unlikely anchors: an…

The Justice Department has unveiled a sweeping plan to repeal and revise more than 30 gun regulations, reigniting one of the most contentious policy debates in the country. The announcement comes just days after a man carrying firearms attempted to approach the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, a timing that gun control advocates have been quick to highlight. At the center of the proposal is the repeal of a 2024 Biden administration rule that expanded background check requirements for firearms sold at gun shows and other informal venues. The rule had been designed to close what is widely known as…

Recent celebrity headlines have served as a very public reminder that no level of success, self-awareness or accomplishment makes a woman immune to heartbreak. Even the most accomplished women can find themselves caught in patterns that leave them questioning their worth. What those moments reveal is not a personal failure they reveal something about how modern dating tends to operate, and why more women are reconsidering how quickly they extend emotional access. The modern dating landscape has shifted Dating has always carried some degree of risk, but the emotional stakes feel particularly high right now. A certain type of man…

 Lumumba Sayers Sr., 47, was found guilty of second degree murder after fatally shooting Malcolm Watson, 28, outside a children’s birthday party  a man he wrongly believed was responsible for his son’s death. A Colorado jury has convicted former MMA fighter Lumumba Sayers Sr. of second degree murder following the fatal shooting of Malcolm Watson, 28, outside a children’s birthday party in 2024. The verdict, delivered after a trial that laid bare a devastating chain of grief, mistaken identity and irreversible violence, has drawn renewed attention to the toll that personal loss can take on even those most publicly committed…

Shirlene King Pearson, widely known as Ms. Juicy, is back in the headlines though not for the reasons her fans would hope. The reality television personality was arrested in Georgia on April 18 on two charges, suspicion of driving with a suspended or revoked license and suspicion of driving without insurance. Online records confirm she was released the following day, according to TMZ. The arrest comes at a particularly tender moment for the 49-year-old television personality, who has spent the past several years focused on recovering from a serious stroke that left her fighting to relearn the most basic functions…

For many Black Americans, the road to financial freedom is blocked not just by major economic setbacks but by smaller, often overlooked financial burdens. Municipal fines traffic tickets, unpaid toll fees, even overdue cell phone bills may seem minor at first, but when left unaddressed, they can snowball into significant debt that quietly erodes financial stability. The racial wealth gap in America is well documented, and systemic factors continue to drive it. Where a person lives and their race can directly influence their credit score and the assessed value of their home two cornerstones of financial health. These structural disadvantages…