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Nothing like a prominent life in public service to help your other career as a romance novelist. At least that’s the case for Stacey Abrams. Berkley announced Tuesday that it had acquired rights to three out-of-print novels by Abrams that she had written nearly 20 years ago under the name …

People visit the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC on Martin Luther King Day on January 21, 2019. Photo: Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS (Getty Images) In the latest edition of how racist AND anti-Semitic can one be, a North Carolina man has been charged with ethnic intimidation after defacing a …

Part two of The Real Housewives of Atlanta season 13 reunion on Sunday (May 2) and it appears that it might have mended a friendship that has had its fair share of ups and downs.  Castmates Kandi Burruss and Porsha Williams opened up about the current status of their friendship. …

I first saw the photo at a street fair in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in October 2011. I was at the Historic Mobile Street Renaissance Festival, an annual celebration of Hattiesburg’s Black downtown. That afternoon, Mobile Street filled with thousands of people spending their Saturday in the sun, drinking sweet tea and …

Actress Laya DeLeon Hayes absolutely looks up to her TV mom, Queen Latifah, as her mentor on the CBS series The Equalizer. The 16-year-old who plays Delilah opposite Latifah’s character Robyn McCall spoke with People about the bond the pair have and the impact that it has had on her.  …

D-Black da Ghana Bwouy (born Desmond Kwesi Blackmore) is a Ghanaian rapper and entrepreneur who serves as the United Nations’ celebrity ambassador in Ghana. He shot onto the scene in 2008 with a groundbreaking collaborative effort with partner Kewku T, entitled Target Practice. Their singles “Move” and “Breathe” earned them a …

On January 29, 2018, Marvel Comics’ Black Panther hit theatres and it was a box office smash. As production is underway for the second installment, actress Lupita Nyong’o and the cast will film without Chadwick Boseman. Nyong’o, 38, spoke with Yahoo Entertainment about how she is coping with the late …

A former collegiate football player who was just drafted to the National Football League last week did something different to celebrate his entry into the world of professional sports. Instead of gathering friends and families at a rented venue or his home, he hosted his draft party at a homeless …

This May, come home to BET for a night of Black joy, wholesome entertainment, and MORE of the Tyler Perry shows we just can’t resist. New episodes of “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne” season eight and “Tyler Perry’s Assisted Living” season two returns with back-to-back episodes on Tuesday, May 25, …

Ai Bendr “Coffee”Screenshot: YouTube We’ve got a lot going on here, and guess what? I’m here for it. Black women are dominating the first week of May’s charts, floating between different genres and but putting us in our bag and taking us back out. Music is intersectional as all hell, …