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As the family of Nolan Wells desperately searches for answers following his mysterious death after a July Fourth trip to Mississippi's Horn Island, one of the nation's oldest Black family organizations is urging parents to turn their collective grief into action. Jack and Jill of America, Incorporated, shared a statement honoring the life of the 18-year-old college football player while encouraging families to have difficult conversations about friendship and safety. The statement titled Our Sons Deserve to Grow Old calls for parents to protect their children, strengthen their instincts, and build circles of care rooted in dignity, accountability, and mutual concern.

Deiondra Sanders says she is hurt after Jacquees admitted his heart was not fully out of his relationship with Dreezy when he began moving forward with her, and she felt she was just a rebound.

When colleges across the country rewrote scholarship language to comply with the Trump administration's restrictions on diversity initiatives, one prominent Black family in North Carolina decided to take their money elsewhere. For the first time in nearly thirty years, the Upperman family will not award new scholarships at the University of North Carolina Wilmington after refusing to alter the scholarship's mission to satisfy the UNC System's new equality policy. The family is exploring moving its roughly one million dollar endowment to Howard University, Dr. Upperman's alma mater.

Great news for Max Holloway -- Drake just placed a $1 million bet on Conor McGregor to win at UFC 329 on Saturday. Champagne Papi revealed the eye-popping wager on Friday, saying McGregor is back. If Notorious wins, Drake would rake in a whopping $1.85 million profit. However, the rap great hasn't been very lucky with his past bets, losing big on the NBA Finals, Super Bowl, UFC fights, and World Cup.

Big Tigger has been named in police records as the suspect in a domestic dispute investigation involving his wife, Alicia Brown. The veteran radio host, whose real name is Darian Morgan, is being investigated after Brown was involved in an alleged assault during a May incident.