Earlier this month, a Black woman launched the newest Black-owned radio station and television network located in downtown Atlanta. Black News has reported that Tina Redmond, who uses the moniker DJ Chic Chick, is now the owner of Atlanta’s newest Black-owned radio station and television network, TRACC Radio and TRACC …
Read More »Jamie Foxx to Star and Executive Produce Upcoming Limited Series on the Life and Career of Mike Tyson
Jamie Foxx attends SiriusXM’s Urban View ‘Just Mercy’ Town Hall with Michael B. Jordan & Jamie Foxx on December 17, 2019 in New York City. Photo: Cindy Ord for SiriusXM (Getty Images) Whether it’s an aspiring jazz musician, a legendary soul singer, or an exonerated man who finally gets justice …
Read More »The Show That Changed Television Forever
Lear’s agent pushed the concept to CBS. Wood was initially hesitant, but soon recognized that he had found his conversation starter. He later explained his thinking to the sociologist Todd Gitlin: “I really thought the pilot was very, very funny … It sure seemed to me a terrific way to …
Read More »Relationship Guru Derrick Jaxn Admits To Extramarital Affair
Derrick Jaxn, a highly respected social media relationship guru, is responding to claims he was having an affair with another woman while still being married to his wife, Da’Naia Broadus. A woman named Candice De Mederios told blogger Tasha K earlier this month that she had an affair with Jaxn, …
Read More »The Precautions to Consider If You Received The COVID-19 Vaccine
Just because you received the COVID-19 vaccine doesn’t mean you’re fully in the clear to travel the world and hang out with large groups of people. While nations across the globe work to obtain herd immunity, the CDC released a list of guidelines for those who have been vaccinated. There …
Read More »Lizzo Wants to See If You Can Dance ‘Good As Hell’ for a New Series at Amazon Studios
Lizzo attends the 30th Annual GLAAD Media Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on March 28, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California.Photo: Frazer Harrison (Getty Images) Kitty-cat, kitt-cat, prrr. All the big girls down to the flrrrr. If you’re a full-figured woman with twerk skills on legendary, then Lizzo is looking …
Read More »Comedian Gary Owen And Kenya Duke Call It Quits
Comedian Gary Owen and wife Kenya Duke are calling it quits after 18 years of marriage. According to TMZ, Duke filed divorce documents on Friday (March 19) in Los Angeles County Supreme Court. There’s no clear indication of why the 46-year-old filed for divorce from Owen, 46. The couple has …
Read More »Chicago Private School Won’t Allow 4-Year-Old Boy to Wear Braids
A young Chicago Black mother allowed her son’s hair to be braided in a style he saw on someone else and he wanted to mimic the style and his mother obliged. After being happy and excited to show it off to his friends at school, the 4-year-old faced disappointment when …
Read More »Voices of Harlem: Jermaine Dupri Joins Rémy Martin and the Harlem Writers Guild on a Poetry-Inspired Collaboration
Screenshot: Rémy Martin It’s Lit!It’s Lit!Where all things literary live at The Root The relationship between poetry and music is intrinsic. While all music isn’t lyrical and poetry isn’t musical, it’s difficult to imagine one without the other—and impossible to imagine Harlem without either. The New York City neighborhood that …
Read More »Audio Confession Surfaces In Kendrick Johnson Murder Case
New potential evidence could lead investigators to the killer of Kendrick Johnson, a Valdosta, Ga. teen whose body was found inside a rolled-up gym mat at his high school in 2013. Fox 5 Atlanta reported on Friday (March 19) that Lowndes County Sheriff Ashley Paulk received an audio recording of …
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