Black America Breaking News for the African American Community

If we’re being honest, the best time for financial literacy – both for personal and professional use – was yesterday. The second-best time is today. Proper money management and accounting skills can go a long way in the immediate future, and they can make the distant future far less stressful …

Virgil Abloh attends the Dior Homme Menswear Spring/Summer 2019 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on June 23, 2018 in Paris, France.Photo: Jacopo Raule for Dior (Getty Images) A new exhibition dedicated to the life and legacy of the late Virgil Abloh is coming to the Brooklyn Museum soon. …

I glanced into my teenage daughter’s bedroom one spring afternoon last year, expecting to find her staring absentmindedly at the Zoom screen that passed for high school during the pandemic. Instead, she was laughing uproariously at a video she had found. I asked her what she was looking at. “It’s …

A four-part docuseries from the History Channel and Hungry Eyes Media shatters Canada’s image as a safe harbor utopia for Black people and elucidates the little-known stories of trailblazing Black Canadians who helped build the nation.  The role of Black Canadians and their communities in Canada is something that producers …

A sizeable Black population and local government and private efforts that inspire Black entrepreneurship make the “Mid-Atlantic pocket” a hot spot for those businesses. Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware were cited as notably advantageous for Black businesses as they respectively landed the No. 1, 2,  and 5 spots with the best …

Photo: Kyle Robertson/ Columbus Dispatch If at first you don’t succeed, try and get rejected again. On Jan. 12th, the Ohio Supreme Court rejected legislative maps drawn by Ohio Republican lawmakers, stated they were “unconstitutional,” and set a 10-day deadline “to redraw lines that don’t gerrymander districts.” According to the …

The illustrious Sarah Breedlove, better known as Madam C.J. Walker, became one of the nation’s first women self-made millionaires more than a century ago by turning the use of hot combs, brushes, and the “Walker Method” pomade formula she perfected into a Black haircare empire. Today, Walker’s descendants, including her …

Sign up for Imani’s newsletter, Unsettled Territory, here. For more than a century, readers have been fascinated by the American South, a place where the dialects remain distinct, raconteurs abound (I’ve never met a southerner who can’t tell at least one good story), and American music is rooted. Their interest …

Almost everywhere we turn, someone is preaching the gospel of self-love—but what does that look like in practice, and how do we achieve it for ourselves? I’ve been writing and thinking publicly about loving ourselves better for a long time. I even wrote a book about what self-love looks like …

The Daily Show host Trevor Noah has thrown his hat into the ring in calling out Joe Rogan after old footage of him making racially insensitive comments and using the N-word recently resurfaced on the Internet. On Noah’s Monday episode, the late-night host played a clip from India Arie’s recent …