Black America Breaking News for the African American Community

It’s Friday and that means it’s time to wind down for the weekend.  On Friday April 24 at 2 PT/5 ET, join BET House Party on Instagram Live for a listening party with the soundtrack of BET’s hit show Twenties hosted by composer Amanda Jones, who has been working with …

The coronavirus pandemic is affecting so many aspects of our lives, with our well-being at the top of the list. If you’re looking for ways to better manage your stress, and especially if you’re having trouble sleeping, Diddy has a solution for you. The hip-hop legend and entrepreneur has teamed …

Screenshot: WSB-TV 2 Imagine being in an online meeting with colleagues and other professionals and not expecting anything spectacular to happen during this meeting of minds when suddenly, BOOM—Oprah Winfrey appears on your screen with words of encouragement. This was what educators for Atlanta’s Ron Clark Academy experienced during a …

Actor, J. August Richards, who you may know from NBC’s new show, Council of Dads, or ABC’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. recently went public about his sexual orientation while speaking with his Council of Dads co-star Sarah Wayne Callies on Instagram Live on Monday, April 20. In the NBC drama, Richards …

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescot’s older brother, Jace Prescott, died suddenly on Thursday (Apr. 24) at the age of 31. The Cowboys announced the sad news Thursday evening just minutes after making their first-round selection in the NFL draft. “It is with great sadness and support that we share …

Just before the 2016 election, and then again after its results became clear, I did a series of Atlantic items on a challenge I thought the press was not prepared for. The challenge was dealing with a major political figure—Donald Trump—who fit no previous pattern of how presidents or other …

Billy Porter, like millions of others, are pretty sick of what’s going on in Washington right now, and he’s using his musical talent in order to bring about change. On Friday (April 24), the multi-hyphenate star released a cover of Buffalo Springfield’s legendary 1966 song “For What It’s Worth,” which …

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is rumored to dead, according to a Hong Kong broadcast network. The news comes just hours after a Japanese magazine reported that the North Korean leader was in a “vegetative” state after undergoing heart surgery earlier this month. A vice director for HKSTV …

Toya Wright is speaking out about the backlash she faced for allowing reality TV cameras into the courtroom to capture the murder trial of the man who is charged with killing her brothers in 2016. This past September, Antoine “Tweezy” Edwards was convicted of the 2016 New Orleans shooting that …

Alex Rodriguez was a guest on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon Thursday April 23 and he detailed how he and his fiancé Jennifer Lopez were passing their time in quarantine amid the coronavirus pandemic. After Fallon assumed that A-Rod and J-Lo were going to continue with their plan to …