Black America Breaking News for the African American Community

During a virtual sit down on Friday (April 16), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar joined Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett for “A Conversation Between Legends,” and spoke about the importance of the COVID-19 vaccine. The basketball legend and Dr. Corbett, the scientific lead of the Vaccine Research Center’s coronavirus team at the U.S. National …

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is in the hot seat as calls for action against community policing grow. According to CBS News, A Chicago activist has criticized Lightfoot’s response to police accountability in her delayed release of bodycam footage that revealed a cop fatally shooting thirteen-year-old Adam Toledo in the Little …

Photo: Alex Wong (Getty Images) Ted Cruz, the Texas senator with the Dollar Store version of Wolverine’s facial hair, must have left the part of him that even bothers hiding his hypocrisy in Cancun when he went on his short-lived vacation from being a piss-poor elected official earlier this year. …

R. Kelly is slated to trade a jail cell in Chicago for one in New York City. On Thursday (April 15), a federal judge gave the green light to relocate the R&B singer in preparation for his trial this summer on alleged sex-trafficking crimes. The case, which has faced several …

Everything Legendary founders pitched their vegan burger brand on season 12 of ABC’s hit TV show “Shark Tank.” After striking a deal with Mark Cuban, Everything Legendary sold $250,000 worth of burgers online within 24 hours of the episode airing. “This is a vegan, flavorful movement that we’re starting right …

Screenshot: Bad Boy Entertainment/ YouTube Hip Hop lost another great emcee Saturday. It’s been just over a week since Black Rob was seen expressing his condolences for the passing of rap icon DMX from his hospital bed in Atlanta, Ga., in an Instagram video posted by New York City radio …

Black Rob has passed away at the age of 51. The former Bad Boy rapper revealed recently that he was homeless and battling health issues, and was even hospitalized for kidney failure a week ago. RELATED: Diddy Has Reportedly Reached Out To Black Rob “Oh man, I’ve been dealing with …

A Holbrook, Massachusetts man has been charged with hate crimes after allegedly attempting to run over a group of Black children with his truck on April 10. Holbrook Police Department reported that Shane Belleville, 36, put his grown a** nose in children’s business after a schoolyard fight between one Black …

Photo: Alex Edelman (Getty Images) It seems like every day, the Republican party comes closer and closer to being truthful about what the GOP actually is—a white people party. Republicans think they’re slick by occasionally letting in your wypipo-friendly Black person who will call Black Lives Matter racist for pats …

Black Rob passed away on Saturday (April 17), and one detail from his tragic death at 51 has left fans especially devastated. In the days following Rob’s hospitalization due to kidney failure, it was revealed that Rob, born Robert Ross, was homeless and needed money to help with his medical …