Black America Breaking News for the African American Community

Michelle Obama is getting her own cooking show on Netflix! The streaming platform and the former first lady announced that she will be starring and executive producing her own cooking show for kids called “Waffles + Mochi.” CNN reports that the new show, arriving on March 16, will be feature …

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Tessica Brown recently went viral after spraying her hair with Gorilla Glue. Now the 40-year-old from Violet, Louisiana, has reportedly hired a lawyer to sue the spray adhesive company. After sharing her story on Instagram about how her hair refused to budge a full month after she used the glue in …

And that ends the section of the newsletter where I talk about insurance. By positioning itself in this way, Understory happens to have collected a new kind of hail data. It has a ground-truth record of where hail has landed, a surprisingly hard type of data to come across in …

Back in December, just as the long-awaited COVID-19 vaccine roll-out was beginning to get underway, I wrote that this was an opportunity to take another step along our journey to be a “more perfect union.” Just as our nation had with the Polio vaccine more than half a century earlier, …

The award-winning online bakery, Luv’s Brownies®, home of the Original Heart-Shaped Brownie®, is bringing its sweet treats to the Bay Area with the launch of its first-ever dessert truck. Luv’s Brownies kicked off the first two locations on January, 9th & 10th at the Rose Garden Farmers’ Market and Cupertino Farmers’ …

Photo: theendup (Shutterstock) Any makeup lover is all-too-familiar with the ubiquitous black lacquered displays and striped shopping bags of Sephora—but until recently, finding Black brands on its shelves proved a bit more challenging. The world’s premiere beauty marketplace has been working to change that image, inside and out: after becoming …

But among those who can afford to be selective, remote work has allowed some to sample their options. Last summer, Sarah Sodine Parr, a 28-year-old tech worker, and her husband moved away from San Francisco and tested out a succession of monthlong rental houses in other cities, noting which features …

Tyler Perry is using his influence to shed light on race in the American workplace. The accomplished director, actor, screenwriter, producer and philanthropist is teaming up with LinkedIn as the first guest editor of Conversations for Change, a new content and community discussion series the social-networking site is launching to …

Wells Fargo, the multinational financial services company, has announced investments in six Black Minority Depository Institutions (MSIs). The investments were part of a pledge Wells Fargo made last year to invest up to $50 million in Black-owned banks. As part of the investment, the banks will also have access to …