Black America Breaking News for the African American Community
Photo: Doug Mills-Pool (Getty Images) Trump and his criminal cronies are escalating their ideas of how to deny the results of November’s election. With 31 days to go until President-elect Biden’s inauguration, the outgoing president is now reportedly considering instituting martial law to keep himself in power. Trump made the …
Read More »Eve Makes ‘Bittersweet’ Departure From ‘The Talk’
Eve said goodbye to The Talk in what she described as a bittersweet moment. On Friday’s (December 18) episode of the CBS daytime program, the co-host and rapper, 42, said she was very thankful for the time she spent on the show over the past four years. RELATED: Eve Says She …
Read More »3 Black Fathers Launch Roku Channel With 13 Shows to Address the Lack of Diversity in News Programming
Three years ago, three black fathers, Marquis Lupton, William Way Jr., and Brandon Way Sr. decided to do something about the lack of diversity in their regional news stations. Building off of Marquis’ decade long journalism career, the three fathers decided to launch The Cultured Professional, best known as the TCP …
Read More »Kansas City Star Apologizes For Decades of Racially Biased Reporting
Photo: AP This year was marked by a movement towards racial reckoning in America, including a recognition of the historic injustices done towards Black people in this country via policing and also from a whole host of other institutions. Now another entity has stepped forward to acknowledge its role in …
Read More »The Life of a Little Black Boy in America
Photographs by Rashod Taylor Rashod Taylor, a fine-art photographer based in Bloomington, Illinois, has been documenting Black American life for years. His ongoing analog photo series Little Black Boy is an intimate and weighty record of his son’s childhood. It began in 2015, when his son was born. This year, …
Read More »Rochester Mayor Told Police Chief To Lie About Prude Death
La’Ron Singletary, the former Rochester police chief who was terminated in September, is making some shocking claims in legal documents that were released to the public earlier this week. According to NBC News, Singletary said Rochester mayor Lovely Warren urged him to omit facts and give false information to back …
Read More »#ChangeMusic Roadmap Initiative Launched by The Recording Academy And Color Of Change
0 (Image: The Recording Academy) The Recording Academy and Color Of Change have announced the collaborative release of the #ChangeMusic Roadmap. #ChangeMusic Roadmap is a guide created to help move the music industry beyond conversation and intention and move it towards actionable racial justice. This collaborative effort is the latest initiative …
Read More »Wrapping Paper Roll Call: In Celebration of the Essentials
Photo: insta_photos (Shutterstock) What do you get the person who has given so many so much—in many cases, the gift of care, comfort and survival—this year? As 2020 comes to a close, the indisputable heroes in our midst are essential workers, especially those who’ve risked their own health, lives, and …
Read More »DJ Screw Biopic Is In The Works
DJ Screw’s story is slated to hit the silver screen. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Sony is developing a biopic about the legendary Houston producer based off of Isaac Yowman’s musical tribute, All Screwed Up. The movie will also share the same title with Yowman serving as executive producer. Yowman’s …
Read More »This Couple Helps Black-Owned Brands Get Their Products into Grocery Stores
Meet Allen and Subriana Pierce, an African American entrepreneurial couple whose company, Navigator Sales & Marketing, connects grocery retailers with small business owners that sell their own line of packaged foods, household items, etc. Their company is a food and beverage broker with product representation in over 15,000 stores including Albertsons, …
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