Black America Breaking News for the African American Community

Multi Billionaire media mogul and talk show icon, Oprah Winfrey, is giving the staff at OWN TV Election Day off so they can head to the polls to cast their ballots.  Winfrey made the announcement on her social media platforms on Aug. 19  in the hopes that her latest effort …

Photo: TFoxFoto (Shutterstock) Officials for Chicago Public Schools have voted to significantly reduce the budget for school resource officers. The budget, which barely passed, reduces the budget for SRO’s from $33 million to $15 million, according to WGN-9. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and CPS CEO Janice Jackson announced on Wednesday …

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have been understandably private since moving to California, however the couple are using their time and resources to create positive change. This week, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex made their first joint appearance from their new home in Santa Barbara with leaders from the …

Read: What Joe Biden can’t bring himself to say Consider the emotional maturity it takes at Brayden’s age to talk about his personal struggle—let alone when that personal struggle is talking, when it’s hard to even talk at all, when it hurts to speak. Like Biden, Brayden’s eyes drifted from …

Zavion Davenport, also known as drag performer Chi Chi DeVayne from RuPaul’s Drag Race, has died at 34 years old. Entertainment Weekly confirmed Davenport passed away, though the cause of death has not been revealed. Chi Chi was open on social media about fighting Scleroderma, which is a rare disease …

Kamala Harris Officially Becomes Vice PresidentIal Candidate, Stepping Into History 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT: California Sen. Kamala Harris formally accepted the nomination of the Democratic party to become its candidate for vice president, the first Black woman and first South Asian woman to do so, making history. She is …

Screenshot: jaythegoat3476 (TikTok In Georgia, an investigation has been launched after a video went viral showing a cop tasing a Black woman on her front porch. According to AJC, the video shows an officer approaching a group of Black women sitting on their front porch. He tells one of the …

3. A number of Republican Party defectors spoke. Some progressives bristled. Elaine Godfrey reports from a (virtual) watch party for Ohio leftists: “They worry that Democrats have abandoned core party values in their effort to oust Trump, and they fear that by welcoming Never Trumpers into the fold, the Democratic …

Exhale.  I woke up this morning with a deep appreciation of the significance of this day. It is a day won not by any one person, but with the tireless effort of generations of Black women and women of color who have worked to make this moment possible. They are …

Tanaye White is one of the 2021 rookies in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue. (Photo: Sports Illustrated Swimsuit) The winners of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit‘s annual model search have finally been revealed and one of the two models, Tanaye White, is turning heads with her beautiful brown skin and lush mane …