Banking Black (Adobe Stock photo) OneUnited Bank says its the nation’s biggest Black-owned bank. Since protests roiled the nation after George Floyd and Breonna Taylor were killed by police, Black-owned financial institutions and other companies are seeing renewed interest in their business. Read More: Discover launches #EatItForward campaign to give …

Members of the Washington Wizards and Washington Mystics basketball teams march to the MLK Memorial to support Black Lives Matter and mark the Juneteenth holiday June 19, 2020 in Washington, D.C. Photo: Chip Somodevilla (Getty Images) The NBA could learn a thing or two from its “little sister,” the WNBA. …

Courtesy www.pexels.com Discover announced a social media campaign to give $5 million to Black-owned restaurant businesses following COVID-19 financial distress. Two hundred eateries will receive $25,000 to help offset issues brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. READ MORE: theGrio’s ‘Staying In Business’ explores Black restaurants facing COVID-19 Rather than have …

“The deep sleep I would soon enter required a completely blank canvas if I was to emerge from it fully renewed,” she says—and she recruits a pretentious young artist named Ping Xi to be her sleep “warden.” She gives him carte blanche to use her blacked-out body for his own …

(Photo: Adobe) There is a fire spreading across the internet, across social media, and across the world. This fire is consuming, but not in the way you think. This fire is lighting up consumers to shop with Black-owned businesses. Right now, buying Black is trending in a way that it …

The family of Breonna Taylor is claiming that the 26-year-old’s home was targeted in a city operation to clear a neighborhood undergoing gentrification. According to legal documents obtained by TMZ, Taylor family attorneys filed court documents to amend the wrongful death lawsuit against Brett Hankison, Myles Cosgrove, and Jonathan Mattingly, …

Photo: Shutterstock (Shutterstock) On the day following Malia Obama’s 22nd birthday (and some other holiday about a mediocre flag or somethin’), a “Constitutional Conservative running for Congress in Florida’s 18th Congressional District” named KW Miller proclaimed that Beyoncé was not a true African-American and was instead an Italian woman named …

British-Nigerian actor John Boyega of Star Wars fame and British actor/model Jodie Turner-Smith of Queen and Slim are part of the starring team in the upcoming thriller Borderland. Rounding up the headliners in the upcoming film will be Jack Reynor of Midsommer and Felicity Jones, also of Star Wars, according …

Pushing back against the entertainment industry that too often undervalues Black talent, Michaela Coel explained to Vulture that she had to reject Netflix’s $1 million offer for her latest show, I May Destroy You. It wasn’t the $1 million paycheck that bothered the British writer, director and actress. The problem …

Pushing back against the entertainment industry that too often undervalues Black talent, Michaela Coel explained to Vulture that she had to reject Netflix’s $1 million offer for her latest show, I May Destroy You. It wasn’t the $1 million paycheck that bothered the British writer, director and actress. The problem …