We are officially in the Biden-Harris administration and comedian Trevor Noah is one of the many Americans who is breathing a sigh of relief. Noah has even taken to calling President Joe Biden America’s new dad. While discussing yesterday’s Biden-Harris inauguration on The Daily Social Distancing Show, the 36-year-old comedian …
Read More »BET Presents 2020 Election All-Stars
Women are always called when there’s a need for change. Getting Joe Biden and Kamala Harris elected to the White House is no different. Black women, in particular, played a major role in helping the new president and vice president usher in their progressive administration and this is our opportunity …
Read More »Jay-Z Launches $10 Million Fund For Minority-Owned Cannabis Businesses
Previously, BLACK ENTERPRISE reported how rap legend and business titan Shawn ‘”Jay-Z” Carter joined with Roc Nation to form his new cannabis venture called The Parent Company and the launch of his brand, MONOGRAM. This week, the entertainment mogul announced the launch of a new investment fund geared toward minority-owned …
Read More »Delonte West Now Working at the Rehab Center That Helped Get Him Back On His Feet
Photo: Gail Oskin (Getty Images) Former NBA player Delonte West is living proof that the comeback is always greater than the setback. For years, we’ve heard disturbing reports about the personal struggles that derailed his NBA career and they’ve only seemed to magnify since. Whether it was being unhoused, experiencing …
Read More »The Sound of Silence
That could be a reflection of how complicated this moment really is. More than 400,000 Americans are dead from a pandemic that is still raging. The national vaccine rollout is slow, and new strains of the coronavirus are alarming scientists worldwide. COVID-19 didn’t stop Washingtonians from protesting in the streets …
Read More »This Is How Barbara Lee Honored Shirley Chisholm
California Congresswoman Barbara Lee honored Shirley Chisholm, the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination, on Inauguration Day (January 20) by wearing very special jewelry. Lee joins American in celebrating Vice President Kamala Harris’ historic achievement by wearing a pearl necklace gifted to her from the Chisholm family. …
Read More »VP Kamala Harris’ Inauguration Fashion Honored Black American Designers
Kamala Harris made history today as the country’s first woman and the first person of Black and Asian descent to be sworn in as the new vice president. Many spectators and critics have already taken note of her choice of fashion, which paid nods to American designers and special odes …
Read More »Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 5-Year Run on Black Panther Coming to a Close in April
Image: Marvel Entertainment In 2015, when my best friend/then-roommate told me that Ta-Nehisi Coates was going to write Black Panther, my reaction was “Oh shit!” followed by “He’s probably only going to do it for like a year, though.” Well, I was wrong. After five years and 50 issues, Coates’ run …
Read More »The Technicolor Normalcy of Biden’s Inauguration
Read: A sermon in America’s civic religion After all, despite Trump’s gilded decorative tastes, the last inauguration was a bleak nightmare defined by the word carnage and the groans of 3 Doors Down. By contrast, the 2021 inauguration might persist in the public memory as a whirl of fun fashions: …
Read More »Oprah Gifts Amanda Gorman Caged Bird Ring, Earrings
Amanda Gorman, who made history as the youngest ever Inaugural poet, was backed by some incredible star power. After Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were sworn in as President and Vice President of the United States, the 22-year-old Gorman recited her powerful poem “The Hill We Climb.” Gorman exuded elegance …
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