Black America Breaking News for the African American Community

On Sept. 6, Michael K. Williams, 54, was found dead in his Brooklyn home. His cause of death has now been released. According to TMZ, the Chief Medical Examiner in New York determined the official cause of death is “acute intoxication by the combined effects of fentanyl, p-fluorofentanyl, heroin and …

The Obamas are returning to Chicago to kick off the groundbreaking for the Obama Presidential Center. The center, built in partnership with the University of Chicago, will be located in the Jackson Park neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. The new landmark will house a public library, children’s center, …

Image: Tudoran Andrei (Shutterstock) Activists in Bethesda, Maryland are working to prevent the sale of an asphalt parking lot that was once a historic Black cemetery and preserve the bodies of several freed slaves and their descendants that may lie below. NBC News reports the parking lot is part of …

People who have heard of LuLaRoe have usually come across it for one of two reasons. Either someone they know has tried to sell them the company’s stretchy leggings and fit-and-flare dresses over Facebook, or they’ve seen some of the gleeful coverage of LuLaRoe’s very public disintegration as a brand: …

UPDATE:  Kelly Price was safe Friday night (Sept. 24) after she was reported missing in the Atlanta area, where she lives, according to her attorney. Monica Ewing, the gospel singer’s lawyer, says the artist is recovering at an undisclosed location, NBC reports. She noted that Price was over COVID-19 but …

After a nearly year-long “freeze,” the Central York School Board voted unanimously to reinstate access to books and other educational resources that they considered “too activist in nature.” The list included children’s books on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and other Civil Rights leaders; the autobiography of Pakistani …

Farmer John Boyd Jr., runs his hay bailer at his farm in Boydton, Va., Thursday, May 27, 2021. Just two generations out of slavery, by 1910 Black farmers had amassed more than 16 million acres of land and made up about 14 percent of farmers. The fruit of their labors …

One of the most underrated aspects of the cinemagoing experience comes when you emerge from the theater, turn to the person you came with, and realize they’re as excited as you are to talk about what you just saw. Although I missed plenty about going to theaters when they were …

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Back on May 8, Jason Derulo welcomed his first child, a baby boy named Jason King, with his model girlfriend, Jena Frumes. The two have now split. The 31-year-old singer broke the news on Twitter, writing, “Jena and I have decided to part ways. She is an amazing mother but …