Black America Breaking News for the African American Community

What you don’t know can hurt you. It’s no secret that our education system has not equipped Americans with a foundation of financial literacy, and the Black community has been hit especially hard by this failure. In a recent financial literacy test, Black Americans scored 38%, with only 28% answering …

Gregg Leakes, the husband of Real Housewives of Atlanta star NeNe Leakes, has died from colon cancer. He was 66. Longtime family friend and publicist Ernest Dukes confirmed in a statement on Wednesday (September 1) that Leakes died “peacefully” in his home while surrounded by his family, PEOPLE reports. “Today …

A Memphis judge has blocked the release of a video that captured the final moments of Alvin Motley Jr.’s life. Motley was killed by former cop-turned-security guard, Gregory Livingston, at a Kroger gas station last month. The special prosecutor in the case originally planned to release the video evidence to …

Oprah Winfrey has helped thousands of young people attend college and her latest scholarship is going the extra mile to assist young leaders.  The new scholarship is via The Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation and benefits “students who have displayed both academic excellence and leadership within their respective communities,” PEOPLE exclusively …

Gabriela Pesqueira When the coronavirus pandemic struck last year, people throughout the developed world raced to buy toilet paper, bottled water, yeast for baking bread, and other basic necessities. Americans also stocked up on guns. They bought more than 23 million firearms in 2020, up 65 percent from 2019. First-time …

Actress Zendaya, 24, threw a lavish party for her birthday coming up tomorrow. The star of projects like Malcolm and Marie, Euphoria, Spiderman, Space Jam, to name a few. According to Daily Mail, The party was held at a 30,000-square-feet mansion, Lake 2 Estate in Beverly Hills, with enough room …

Founders First CDC, a national non-profit organization, has announced its new Job Creators Quest Grant to support BIPOC business owners throughout Texas. The grant will award $100,000 to support minority and underrepresented business owners throughout the state of Texas. Founders First will award 30 grants to diverse-led companies in north, …

Model Veronica Webb walks the runway during Nicole Miller New York Fashion Week: The Shows at Gallery II I at Spring Studios on September 08, 2019 in New York City.Photo: Bennett Raglin (Getty Images) Speaking of The Cut, the outlet also recently reflected on how diversity has evolved on the …

Perhaps a girlboss Cinderella was inevitable. Kerry Brown / Amazon Studios What would a modern Cinderella look like? The classic fairy tale has been told so many times on film, always following the same basic arc: A charming girl, who is forced into servitude by her mean stepmother and wishes …

A former assistant to R. Kelly provided shocking testimony on Tuesday (August 31), claiming that the R&B singer had strict rules for women in his orbit and consequences if they did not follow them. According to the New York Times, during the ninth of Kelly’s New York federal trial, the …