Black America Breaking News for the African American Community

According to The Washington Post, after renaming the two-block stretch of 16th Street NW to Black Lives Matter Plaza in the summer of 2020, it is now a permanent multimillion-dollar concrete installation. Bowser said on Thursday that construction was completed on Black Lives Matter Plaza. There is now one lane …

Photo: lonndubh (Shutterstock) While some kids get their first job or spend weeks from home at sleep away camp during the summers, others make videos of themselves with a friend playing in a white hood and using the N-word. Oh, that’s not a regular summer activity where you’re from? Same, …

At this point, let’s just call it the Big Bill. For weeks, Democrats on Capitol Hill have been going back and forth (and back and forth) on legislation that takes all of the president’s big priorities—universal pre-K, paid leave (now axed), free community college (also axed), climate change, etc.—and folds …

Toya Johnson’s fiancé wanted her to have a fun time over the weekend at a bachelorette party but also not to get too turnt. Monyetta Shaw, the mother of Ne-Yo’s two eldest children, is preparing to tie the knot and Johnson was one of the ladies attending her bachelorette party …

Mental health has always been a taboo issue in the Black community. It’s common that Black men withhold their emotions and are often told to “man up” or “suck it up” instead of tackling the issue head-on. Recently, a number of celebrities, including Naomi Osaka, Simone Biles, and Charlamagne Tha God …

Tichina Arnold and Tisha Campbell-Martin attend at the 2019 Soul Train Awards presented by BET on November 17, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada.Photo: Paras Griffin for BET (Getty Images) All aboard, good people! It’s almost time to come along and ride on the fantastic voyage that is the 2021 Soul …

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Black Caucus Chair Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) said Wednesday a number of the group’s priorities for Black Americans are in President Joe Biden’s spending bill. Democrats are scrambling to come to an agreement on the bill. Beatty told reporters the caucus visited the White House to speak with Biden and his …

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Two officers were indicted by a grand jury on Tuesday for the death of 26 year-old Jamarion Robinson, a Black man who was shot 76 times during a raid on his girlfriend’s apartment in East Point, Ga., back in 2016. Eric Heinze, the assistant chief inspector of the U.S. Marshals …