With credits from iconic films like The Five Heartbeats, Malcolm X, What’s Love Got to Do With It, Amistad and Selma already under her belt, Ruth E. Carter‘s historic 2019 Academy Award win for Best Costume Design for Marvel’s Black Panther in many ways felt overdue. But just ahead of …

On the two-year anniversary of Ahmaud Arbery’s hate crime murder, his mother has announced a new scholarship program in his honor. On Wednesday, Wanda Cooper-Jones announced the establishment of The Ahmaud Arbery Foundation in an effort to prevent any other family from feeling the pain she has felt since Arbery …

Every holiday season, fans of media maven Oprah Winfrey look forward to her “My Favorite Things” list.  Winfrey’s tally from the holiday season of 2021 featured a lot of Black-owned businesses, and in honor of Black History Month before it ends, PEOPLE magazine shared them in a recent compilation.  In this March …

Image: AB+DM for Variety Between high-profile ad campaigns and a new competition series, get ready for another Lizzo takeover. The singer/actress is featured on the Feb. 23 cover of Variety to discuss her next album, auditioning for The Little Mermaid and the Prime Video premiere of Watch Out for the …

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In this day and age, it’s perfectly acceptable to have mixed feelings about the artist formerly known as Kanye West. If his politics and personal life have become increasingly cringeworthy over the course of his career, it’s equally true that his creative output remains difficult to turn away from; as …

Another Black woman has made history as Pamela Culpepper becomes the first Black woman on the luxury fashion brand Prada’s board of directors. According to a Prada press release, Culpepper has been appointed as an independent non-exclusive director of Prada S.p.A. along with Anna Maria Rugarli. The latter has also been …

The free, family-friendly Black Joy Parade in Oakland, California, will return after a year of being virtual. The parade, set to proceed through downtown with performances by dance troupes, musicians and spoken word artists, will be headlined by Grammy Award-winning singer Ashanti.  “We are so excited to host The Black …

FEBRUARY 17th 2022: A Manhattan judge orders Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. – along with their father former President Donald Trump – to testify within 21 days in New York State Attorney General Letitia James’ investigation into the business dealings of The Trump Organization.Photo: Dennis Van Tine/STAR MAX/IPx (AP) …

“How to Build a Life” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. Click here to listen to his podcast series on all things happiness, How to Build a Happy Life. A few days after she became the first female skater to land a quadruple …