The Lady B Show

Food stamp recipients could soon be able to order groceries online with companies like Walmart and Amazon. Currently, 38 million Americans nationwide use food stamps.

  Prayers and condolences go out to the family and friends of Oscar-nominated writer and director John Singleton who has passed at the age of 51. The Singleton family says “he passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family and friends.” Singleton had been in a coma following a stroke 12 days earlier. John was responsible for flourishing acting […]

Somali-American model Halima Aden who spent part of her childhood living in a refugee camp in Kenya is breaking barriers in the beauty and fashion industries. Halima is now the first ever model featured in a Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue while wearing a hijab and burkini. She also made it to the Miss Minnesota U.S.A. Semi-finals […]

It’s confirmed. The University of Virginia men’s basketball team will not celebrate at the White House. Weeks after the Cavaliers clinched the 2019 NCAA championship title, the head coach announced the team would not celebrate the win over Texas Tech at the White House. The long tradition of championship teams visiting the White House has been broken multiple times under […]

Uber drivers in Philadelphia are joining six other major cities in a strike by turning off the app for 12 hours on May 8th, which means no rides for customers during that time. Drivers are protesting over poor working conditions and low pay.  

Antoinette Love from New Orleans has been accepted to 115 colleges and universities across the nation along with more than $3.7 million in scholarships. According to her high school, that’s more than any other college-bound senior in the country, so far this year. Love will be visiting schools over the next few weeks and hopes […]

Hennessy has announced its plan to allocate $10 million to the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF). Over the span of the next 10 years, the donation will benefit graduate students seeking to continue their studies at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the “corporate, social and economic systems.”

Photo by jdwfoto/iStockphoto.com   If you’re not yet registered to vote, TODAY is the deadline for the upcoming primary election in Pennsylvania. The May 21 municipal primary will decide local party Democrats and Republicans who will be on the ballot in the November general election. In Philly, those registered will select Democratic and Republican mayoral […]

Jamie Foxx and Wanda Sykes are moving on up… to ABC network as the actors will play George and Louise ‘Wheezy’ Jefferson in an upcoming live special. ABC is teaming up with talk show host Jimmy Kimmel for a 90-minute, live tribute to classic sitcom All in the Family and its wildly successful spinoff, The Jeffersons. Entitled Live in Front of a […]

  The Justice Department announced that 60 people across five states, including more than 30 physicians, were charged in connection with millions of illegal opioid prescription. The states are Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and West Virginia. According to the Justice Department, the suspects wrote over 350,000 prescriptions and distributed 32 million pills.