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Another day, another B. Simone dragging. This time, it’s because people have discovered that a number of passages from her best-selling book “Babygirl: Manifest The Life You Want” were stolen. B. Simone has become a worldwide trending topic on Twitter Saturday (Jun. 13) for the third time in recent …

Screenshot: @bandaidbrand (Instagram) A whole damn century from the time it was first introduced, Band-Aid brand has finally come to the realization that black people exist, have skin, get boo-boos, and need bandages. It only took a global uprising against the racist killing of black people for it to happen. …

In honor of Pride Month, Nickelodeon has announced that Spongebob Squarepants is gay. The children’s TV network made the big reveal Saturday morning (Jun. 13) in a tweet celebrating Pride Month, writing: “Celebrating #Pride with the LGBTQ+ community and their allies this month and every month.” The tweet featured …

📚Child of Light: A Biography of Robert Stone, by Madison Smartt Bell 📚The Eye You See With: Selected Nonfiction, by Robert Stone, edited by Madison Smartt Bell 📚Robert Stone: Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise, Outerbridge Reach, by Robert Stone, edited by Madison Smartt Bell The roots of Route 66 …

In 2010, the Young Star Award at the BET Awards was established to acknowledge people under 21 who are already making strides in their respective entertainment or sports fields. Being a kid doesn’t mean you don’t have a voice and these young people have proven that they are well on …

Written by Demetria Irwin Empowering women has been a major focus of Queen Latifah’s career, from “Ladies First” to “U.N.I.T.Y,” to the acting roles she selects in movies like Bessie and Hollywood. Now, Queen Latifah is taking that feminist mindset to women of color filmmakers.  For the second year in …

ABC announced today (June 12) that for the first time the popular reality series, “The Bachelor,” has cast the show’s first Black lead. Matt James sat down with Good Morning America today (June 12) to reveal the news. James is a portfolio manager and Air Force veteran, who appeared as …

Two tough years in the making, there were days when Longevity founder Phil Long, 60, wasn’t sure the marriage of his small business, one of the nation’s few certified black-owned wineries, with Bronco Wine Co., one of the largest wine producers in the U.S., would happen. But in early March, …

Andre Leon Talley has been revealing all about his friendship with editor-in-chief Anna Wintour ever since their public falling out back in 2018.  In Talley’s The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir, which was released in May, after years of a rocky relationship, he wrote, “I had suddenly become too old, too …

People gather during a protest against police brutality on June 6, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. Photo: Elijah Nouvela (Getty Images) Another black man in America has been killed by police. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) says it is investigating an incident in Atlanta in which police officers shot and …