ABC announced today (June 12) that for the first time the popular reality series, “The Bachelor,” has cast the show’s first Black lead. Matt James sat down with Good Morning America today (June 12) to reveal the news. James is a portfolio manager and Air Force veteran, who appeared as …

Two tough years in the making, there were days when Longevity founder Phil Long, 60, wasn’t sure the marriage of his small business, one of the nation’s few certified black-owned wineries, with Bronco Wine Co., one of the largest wine producers in the U.S., would happen. But in early March, …

Andre Leon Talley has been revealing all about his friendship with editor-in-chief Anna Wintour ever since their public falling out back in 2018.  In Talley’s The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir, which was released in May, after years of a rocky relationship, he wrote, “I had suddenly become too old, too …

People gather during a protest against police brutality on June 6, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. Photo: Elijah Nouvela (Getty Images) Another black man in America has been killed by police. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) says it is investigating an incident in Atlanta in which police officers shot and …

In Loni Love’s new memoir, she goes deep about love, career and her experiences with racism. In an excerpt via PEOPLE, the 48-year-old talk show host told a harrowing story about being arrested by a police officer over a soda.  Back in the 1990s, Love, originally from Detroit, said she …

A Black man was shot in the back and killed by Atlanta police after someone complained that he was sleeping in his car in a Wendy’s drive-thru line. According to a preliminary report from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, officers with the Atlanta Police Department were dispatched to the …

Cops became a reliable recruiting tool for police departments across America. It also became a way for disgraced units to rehab their reputation on camera. As a Vox documentary points out, the Los Angeles Police Department finally agreed to give the show access in 1994, two years after riots erupted …

Dave Chappelle is back with a new comedy special 8:46, which debuted today on Netflix.  The  legendary comedian delivers his scathing takes on politics, celebrity and, of course, Trump. But the 46-year-old really let loose on African-American Trump supporter Candace Owens in response to the vile comments about George Floyd …

On this day, civil Rights activist Medgar W. Evers was shot in the back by a white supremacist in front of his Jackson, Mississippi home. He was only 37 years old. Born in Decatur, Mississippi, on July 2, 1925, Evers became involved with the National Association for the Advancement of …

Days after transgender model Munroe Bergdorf announced she joined L’Oreal’s United Kingdom diversity board, she has received racist and transphobic comments. On Wednesday (June 10), the 32-year-old took to Instagram and spoke out about the onslaught of hateful words she’s received, adding that the comments always increase “every time something …