Do hip-hop and the 2014 Olympics have a connection? According to HeadKrack there is. Listen to Hip-Hop Spot in the audio player to find out how hip-hop is inspiring…
Opening ceremonies for the 2014 Winter Olympic kicked off in Sochi, Russia today. Athletes from 88 countries showed their team spirit in the Parade of…
What’s parking like at the special olympics? This is just one of Ebony Steele‘s thought provoking questions in today’s ”Ain’t Nobody Sayin Nothin.” Listen to the audio to…
Olympic track star Oscar Pistorius was granted bail in the murder case of Pistorius’ supermodel girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The judge believes the Olympian nicknamed Blade…
Atlanta is one of several cities that has been asked whether they are interested in hosting the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The United States Olympic Committee has sent letters to cities that have previously expressed an interest in hosting the games, as well as the cities in the largest 25 U.S. markets. Atlanta hosted […]
As two of the world’s most famous living sprinters, Jamaica’s Usain Bolt and America’s Carl Lewis should be celebrating each other, but instead they’re throwing shots at one another. Soon after winning gold in the 200 meters at the London Olympics for 100 and 200 titles at back-to-back games, Bolt said he had lost all […]
Could 16-year-old Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas be heading to Atlanta to attend Spelman College? TMZ is reporting that Spelman College president Beverly Daniel Tatum is in London attending the Olympics and made a point to give the history-making gymnast a Spelman gift bag containing a congratulatory note, school t-shirt and a CD containing a […]
The bad news is, Gabby Douglas has seen some of the negative comments about her hair. The good news is, the gold medalist could care less! During a recent interview, Gabby responded to her critics by saying: “What’s wrong with my hair? I’m like, ‘I just made history and people are focused on my hair?’ […]
Gabby Douglas appeared on NBC’s Today show this morning, one day after the 16-year-old gymnast made Olympic history by becoming the first African-American woman to win a gold medal in the women’s all-around gymnastics final. Gabby talked about the long road she traveled to get to the 2012 Olympics, getting a congratulatory call from President […]
Gabrielle Douglas has made history, becoming the first black woman to win the all-around gold medal for women’s gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics! Nicknamed the Flying Squirrel, the 16-year-old Virginia Beach native earned her second Olympic gold medal and became the first African-American Olympics all-around gold medalist by beating the competition with her high-flying […]
