Black America Breaking News for the African American Community

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 …

The family of Elijah McClain has settled a federal civil rights lawsuit two years after McClain was killed during an encounter with police. The city of Aurora, Colorado, and McClain’s family settled the suit for an undisclosed amount on Monday, KUSA-TV reports. It came over one year after the family …

Autumn A. Arnett with her children. (Photo: Courtesy of Autumn A. Arnett) The other week, I logged into Medium.com to write a blog post, and all of the suggested blogs were about how “you CAN have a four hour work day” or “you deserve everything you’ve ever dreamed of.” And …

Photo: Zolnierek (Shutterstock) Civil rights groups, students and educators filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday against the state of Oklahoma over a law that limits how race and gender are taught in public schools. The bill, HB 1775, which was passed by Gov. Kevin Stitt this past May, intended to …

“How to Build a Life” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. Click here to listen to his new podcast series on all things happiness, How to Build a Happy Life. Want to live in a directed, resolute way? To always know why you’re …

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 …

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Ordinary people stand and watch street performer Radha Rao belt out tunes all the time, but it was true glory when R&B star John Legend showed up as she sang one of his hits. The Boston street artist got the surprise of her life while performing this past weekend when …

Photo: Joshua Lott (Getty Images) Former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel was supposed to find a job in the private sector making a ton of money on some company’s board, thus fading into the oblivion that is the place where shitty mayors go to live out the rest of their lives. …

From my home in Beirut, I think of Hong Kong all the time. Even though I’ve never been and have no real ties to it, I feel as though I have a stake in its future. I stare at news headlines that read, “Hong Kong Families, Fearing a Reign of …