Black America Breaking News for the African American Community

Season 5 of the United Shades of America couldn’t arrive at a better time. The CNN original series hosted by comedian W. Kamau Bell kicks off its new season Sunday as the country opines on how to rectify centuries of systemic racism—a topic that’s been at the center of national …

Jay-Z and Rihanna, among a host of celebrities, have sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice demanding a reopening of an investigation into the tragic death of Danroy “DJ” Henry in 2010. Henry, a student at Pace University in New York, was fatally shot by a white police …

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Photo: Alex Wong (Getty Images) Given the sheer amount of fuckery popping off on a daily basis, it’s almost easy to forget that we’re currently in the midst of a pandemic that is decimating both public health and the economy. Almost. While the president and certain GOP governors try to …

Supermodel Tyra Banks has left the runway and entered the ballroom.  Following the July 13 announcement that long term host Tom Bergeron and his co-host Erin Andrews would be leaving the ABC hit show Dancing with the Stars, the network announced that fashion model Tyra Banks would be the new …

In The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates famously described Trump’s politics as white supremacy made evident because of the election of a Black president. Although the writers of the “More Specific Letter” don’t mention Trump by name, they’re building on Coates’s argument: Trumpism is the brutal manifestation of inherited power. Thus, the …

Nick Cannon was trending yesterday (July 14) for comments he made about race and ethnicity. Now, his relationship with ViacomCBS  has been terminated. In a June 30 YouTube video, Cannon spoke with former Public Enemy member Richard “Professor Griff” Griffin, who was reportedly kicked out of the group for anti-Semitic …

The future belongs to Ridgeley Hudson Jr. The recent graduate of King High School in Detroit has reportedly received multiple scholarships from schools across the country, amounting to over $2 million. “I never thought that I’d be here at this moment with scholarships to the tune of $2.3 million,” Hudson …

On top of playing Michelle Obama for the Showtime series First Ladies, Viola Davis will also play Nanisca, a general of the all-female military unit known as the Amazons. The film, which will be  directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, is set  during the 18th and 19th centuries in the Kingdom of …

Daniel Johnson with his two children. (Daniel Johnson Instagram) Daniel Johnson, 25, made an Instagram video alongside his five-year-old daughter Dakota. They sang about the importance of embracing their blackness. Many on social media called it a heartwarming moment between the father and the daughter and the video soon went …