Black America Breaking News for the African American Community

‘);var c=function(){cf.showAsyncAd(opts)};if(typeof window.cf !== ‘undefined’)c();else{cf_async=!0;var r=document.createElement(“script”),s=document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0];r.async=!0;r.src=”http://srv.clickfuse.com/showads/showad.js”;r.readyState?r.onreadystatechange=function(){if(“loaded”==r.readyState||”complete”==r.readyState)r.onreadystatechange=null,c()}:r.onload=c;s.parentNode.insertBefore(r,s)}; })(); Two North Carolina men visiting Miami for Spring Break were arrested after they allegedly drugged and raped a 24-year-old woman who later died in her hotel room, police said. The men, 21-year-old Evoire Collier and 24-year-old Dorian Taylor (both of Greensboro) are also …

Cuba Gooding Jr‘s trial is scheduled to start in Feb. 2022 for his New York City groping case.  According to ABC News, Judge Curtis Farber set the trial date for Feb. 1, which involves the allegations that the 53-year-old violated three different women at three various Manhattan nightclubs in 2018 …

‘);var c=function(){cf.showAsyncAd(opts)};if(typeof window.cf !== ‘undefined’)c();else{cf_async=!0;var r=document.createElement(“script”),s=document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0];r.async=!0;r.src=”http://srv.clickfuse.com/showads/showad.js”;r.readyState?r.onreadystatechange=function(){if(“loaded”==r.readyState||”complete”==r.readyState)r.onreadystatechange=null,c()}:r.onload=c;s.parentNode.insertBefore(r,s)}; })(); 21-year-old Ahmad Al-Issa has been identified as the suspect in the King Soopers grocery store mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado Monday (Mar. 22) that killed 10 people including a police officer. Police ID’d Al-Issa as the shooting suspect Tuesday. He’s from Arvada, about …

Congressional Democrats are reintroducing a bill that would repay the families of Black American veterans who fought in WWII but denied GI Bill benefits. The GI Bill Restoration Act was introduced by House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.) and Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), and Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) …

‘);var c=function(){cf.showAsyncAd(opts)};if(typeof window.cf !== ‘undefined’)c();else{cf_async=!0;var r=document.createElement(“script”),s=document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0];r.async=!0;r.src=”http://srv.clickfuse.com/showads/showad.js”;r.readyState?r.onreadystatechange=function(){if(“loaded”==r.readyState||”complete”==r.readyState)r.onreadystatechange=null,c()}:r.onload=c;s.parentNode.insertBefore(r,s)}; })(); Rapper NLE Choppa was arrested in Broward County, Florida over the weekend and is facing multiple charges. According to his arrest record, NLE (whose real name is: Bryson Lashun Potts) was taken into custody Sunday (Mar. 28) and has been charged with burglary, …

Image: Shutterstock/G-O Media (Shutterstock) Fourscore and three years ago, Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter—a self-titled “musicianer” who was heralded as a “Bad Nigger” who “makes good minstrel” by Life magazine—explained how he came to create one of the first racism* carols. Named after nine young Black men who had been falsely …

‘);var c=function(){cf.showAsyncAd(opts)};if(typeof window.cf !== ‘undefined’)c();else{cf_async=!0;var r=document.createElement(“script”),s=document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0];r.async=!0;r.src=”http://srv.clickfuse.com/showads/showad.js”;r.readyState?r.onreadystatechange=function(){if(“loaded”==r.readyState||”complete”==r.readyState)r.onreadystatechange=null,c()}:r.onload=c;s.parentNode.insertBefore(r,s)}; })(); Jason Derulo is about to become a dad for the first time. The “Ridin’ Solo” singer recently revealed that he and his girlfriend, model Jena Frumes, are expecting their first child together. Derulo announced the news Sunday (Mar. 28) in a video he …

Each installment of “The Friendship Files” features a conversation between The Atlantic’s Julie Beck and two or more friends, exploring the history and significance of their relationship. This week she talks with two friends who used to be married. They discuss their amicable—really!—divorce, how they reconnected afterward, what it means …

‘);var c=function(){cf.showAsyncAd(opts)};if(typeof window.cf !== ‘undefined’)c();else{cf_async=!0;var r=document.createElement(“script”),s=document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0];r.async=!0;r.src=”http://srv.clickfuse.com/showads/showad.js”;r.readyState?r.onreadystatechange=function(){if(“loaded”==r.readyState||”complete”==r.readyState)r.onreadystatechange=null,c()}:r.onload=c;s.parentNode.insertBefore(r,s)}; })(); Former President Barack Obama’s grandmother Sarah Ogwel Onyango Obama has died at the age of 99. Known as Mama Sarah, she passed away early Monday (Mar. 29) at a hospital in the city of Kisumu in western Kenya, her daughter Marsat Onyango told …

Rapper and actress Eve recently announced that she’s expecting her first child with husband Maximillion Cooper. Now, while promoting her new ABC series Queens, which follows four R&B/hip hop divas from the 1990s on a reunion tour, the former talk show host told the crew at The Breakfast Club that …