Black America Breaking News for the African American Community

Disney’s The Proud Family premiered in September of 2001 and ran until August of 2005. Now, the popular animated series is getting a reboot on Disney+. According to The Hollywood Reporter, executive producers Bruce W. Smith and Ralph Farquhar, who worked on the original series, said in a joint statement …

Back in January, Wendy Williams shocked Real Housewives of Atlanta fans when she reported that NeNe Leakes had just texted her that she was quitting the Bravo show. Later during the broadcast, Williams begged Nene not to quit and began to cry as she revealed that NeNe had a …

Image: Instagram With the legacy of Jim Crow laws and violent racism toward African American communities, many black families moved up North through the Great Migration for more economic opportunity. These days, there is a new migration happening with black entrepreneurs looking to take their ideas and businesses down South. …

Lizzo always has time for a little family and fun, and she uploaded an Instagram video on Monday (March 2) sharing a moment with her mom.  The award-winning singer teamed up with her mother, Shari Johnson-Jefferson to film a choreographed dance video as Trey Taylor and Armon Warren’s cover of …

Nicki Minaj’s husband has been arrested by U.S. Marshals on an indictment after he failed to register as a sex offender. TMZ reports that Kenneth Petty was placed into federal custody Wednesday (Mar. 4) after he turned himself in to the Marshals. He’ll stand before a judge later today, …

Director X at ‘Black Love Is’ Launch with Tinder on February 25, 2020 in Hollywood, Calif.Photo: Erik Umphery (Tinder) In the late 1990s and throughout the 2000s, Director X’s stamp was all over your favorite music videos. Whether he made you whine with Sean Paul’s catalog or emote with Usher, …

Racquel Bailey was an aspiring actress in Georgia who desperately wanted to get Tyler Perry’s attention. Starting in 2012, she got creative and paid for ads on billboards in Atlanta. Eight years later, she will be featured in tomorrow night’s episode of Sistas. The 33-year-old told CNN about her audition …

I’m going to start by saying not all vegans are annoying people, and many choose that lifestyle for a variety of reasons and simply go about it in silence. Now that that’s out of the way, one unidentified California runner really takes the (vegan) cake for being the stereotypical …

Oh, right, yes—I’m supposed to avoid touching my face, a task that I and pretty much everyone else have been failing at specularly. It’s hard to change habits, and that is exactly what public health advice for coronavirus has asked us to do. By definition, habits are things “we don’t …

Gabrielle Union is now an author of children’s books with Welcome to the Party, which the actress says was inspired by the birth of her first daughter Kaavia James. Union told PEOPLE, “I’m so excited to be releasing my first children’s book. Since the birth of my daughter … I’ve …