Black America Breaking News for the African American Community
Technically, the next attempt to overthrow a national election may not qualify as a coup. It will rely on subversion more than violence, although each will have its place. If the plot succeeds, the ballots cast by American voters will not decide the presidency in 2024. Thousands of votes will …
Read More »Tisha Campbell Calls Out Company For Martin And Gina Shirts
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Read More »Actor Jussie Smollett Testifies Him And Accuser Shared Drug-Fueled Nights At Bathhouse Together
Former Empire actor Jussie Smollett testified in his defense Monday saying that he and his accuser spent drug-fueled nights together at a gay bathhouse. Smollett, 39, testified that he and Abel Osundairo met at a nightclub in the fall of 2017 and shared cocaine together. The actor also said he …
Read More »Ladies Night: The Other Characters in Insecure's 7th Episode? A Wardrobe by All Black Female Designers
Screenshot: HBO (YouTube) Never let it be said that Insecure doesn’t know how to carry a theme alllllll the way through. Even as the show prepares for its farewell, it marked another first on Sunday night—an episode themed around the girls’ night of Issa, Molly, Kelli and Tiffany—by dressing its …
Read More »Are We Doomed?
Danielle Del Plato A year after the insurrection, I’m trying to imagine the death of American democracy. It’s somehow easier to picture the Earth blasted and bleached by global warming, or the human brain overtaken by the tyranny of artificial intelligence, than to foresee the end of our 250-year experiment …
Read More »Kids And Other Adorable Family At The Hip Hop Awards
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Read More »A Ball For First Black Mayor Of St. Petersburg, Florida, Canceled Due To ‘Inappropriate’ Circus Theme
A ball planned for Ken Welch, the first Black mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida, was canceled amid concerns the ball’s circus theme was inappropriate. The Junior League of Florida, which has held the ball since 2006, scrapped the event after Welch declined the invitation to attend. The theme for the ball …
Read More »Nas and Showtime Team Up for Iconic Project Series Celebrating 50 Years of Hip-Hop’s Past, Present, and Future
Screenshot: Showtime/YouTube (Getty Images) Hip-hop, the music genre that has expanded beyond beats and breakdancing and into a multi-billion dollar industry since its inception in 1973, will be turning 50 soon and that incredulous feat will be the subject of a new project series from Nas, his production banner Mass …
Read More »A Party, and Nation, in Crisis
In October of 1860, The Atlantic’s first editor, James Russell Lowell, wrote of Abraham Lincoln that he “had experience enough in public affairs to make him a statesman, and not enough to make him a politician.” Lowell, in his endorsement, was mainly concerned not with Lincoln’s personal qualities but with …
Read More »Black Couple Gets $75K But Under One Cringeworthy Condition
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