Black America Breaking News for the African American Community

What happens when a business founded to improve the lives of all who walk through it doors has those doors closed by a global pandemic? For La Niecia Vicknair, founder of the Los Angeles boutique gym Thrive Health Lab, the answer was simple: find a way to keep giving the …

(Photo: Netflix) Netflix series #BlackAF has struck a chord in the Black community to become one of the most polarizing new titles on the streaming platform. The underlying topics of colorism and Black representation in media triggered much of the backlash and Kenya Barris, the show’s star and creator, recently broke …

Photo: Shutterstock About a year ago I made up my mind to never give birth to a child in the United States. The decision came after I stumbled into an urgent care clinic in the Chicago neighborhood I lived in, after hours of lying on the couch in my apartment …

Editor’s Note: We asked photographers in 24 locations around the globe to point their cameras up to the sky at precisely the same moment — 1PM GMT, April 25. At a time when the world is so isolated, these photos are a reminder of what we share. Photographs by Yumna …

A 73-year-old man in Angola who fathered 281 children from 47 wives has died. Francisco Tchikuteny Sabalo, a popular Angolan polygamist also known as “Big Dad” or “Pai Grande,” reportedly passed away on April 14th from prostate cancer at the age of 73. Reports out of Africa noted that …

R. Kelly’s trying another plea to get a judge to release him from jail, claiming he has proof he’s vulnerable to the coronavirus outbreak. Via legal documents filed by his lawyer and obtained by TMZ, the singer is asking the judge to release his client pending his trial. Kelly also …

The time has finally come! After it was unclear if we would even get a reunion special, the first teaser for the three-part Real Housewives of Atlanta season 12 reunion has been released. The entire cast joined Andy Cohen via video chat to wrap the season, and despite filming …

Share0 Governor Brian Kemp. Photo Courtesy of Twitter Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is taking a lot of heat after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a study showing African Americans are suffering gravely from the coronavirus pandemic. The study, released Wednesday, showed African Americans make up a majority …

Insecure’s Issa Rae, Jay Ellis, and Yvonne Orji in 2016.Photo: Neilson Barnard (Getty Images for HBO) Halfway through what already feels like a too-short season of Insecure, the addictively funny show on HBO about Black millennials living in Los Angeles, has secured a fifth season. HBO announced its decision to …

The sequel to the 1996 hit movie Space Jam has been anticipated for a long time.  Now its new star, LeBron James, has revealed its title in an Instagram post. PEOPLE reports James was attached to star in the new flick, titled Space Jam: A New Legacy in 2018 when …