Black America Breaking News for the African American Community

There won’t be a Halloween parade this year for a Seattle public school because of its effects on marginalized students of color who don’t celebrate the holiday, The Seattle Times reports. School district officials stated that the pandemic did not play a role in their decision, and they received no …

Sitting on the couch playing with her giggling 18-month-old son, Kurendia Massey received the call no one wants to get. “They’re letting you go,” the recruiter from Massey’s temp agency informed her, just hours after she’d finished an eight-hour shift pulling inventory in a warehouse. The news left Massey, a single …

Charlamagne Tha God is all about spreading that “healing energy.” So the radio personality and talk show host didn’t shy away from crediting Tyler Perry with being the one who helped him identify aspects of his childhood trauma. During an appearance on The Daily Beast Live on Monday, Charlamagne (born …

Photo: arisara (Shutterstock) Politics are weird AF. For instance, the Virginia governor’s race—one I happen to be witnessing (via force) from a front-row seat in Washington, D.C.—has reached extinction-level event levels of mudslinging. Glenn Youngkin, the Republican nominee whose ads make me hate him as a person, and Terry McAuliffe, …

In the fall of 2019, Facebook launched a massive effort to combat the use of its platforms for human trafficking. Working around the clock, its employees searched Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram for keywords and hashtags that promoted domestic servitude in the Middle East and elsewhere. Over the course of …

One person is dead and several others have been injured after a shooting at Grambling State University in Louisiana. According to CNN, the shooting happened in the early morning hours of Oct. 17  at a dining facility where homecoming breakfast was being prepared. One of the injured was a student. …

Book writer Jocelyn Nicole Johnson is showing the world it’s never too late to publish your dream novel. The author’s first book, “My Monticello,” is on its way to becoming a Netflix film.  Johnson, 50, always had an interest in creating literature, but fell off throughout the years, according to …

In this Feb. 18, 2020, file photo, then-Pierce County Sheriff’s Dept. spokesman Det. Ed Troyer answers questions during a news conference in Tacoma, Wash. Photo: Ted S. Ryan (AP) Sedrick Altheimer is coming for the justice he seeks after a swarm of Tacoma, Wa., police officers descended on him in …

Before I tell you what happened at exactly 2:28 p.m. on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, at the White House—and how it elicited a very specific reaction, some 2,400 miles away, in Menlo Park, California—you need to remember the mayhem of that day, the exuberance of the mob as it gave …

Source link