Black America Breaking News for the African American Community

Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District Representative Ilhan Omar, has shared that she will not rush to get the COVID-19 vaccine, unlike other members of congress.  Omar headed to Twitter on Sunday (Dec. 20) to argue that lawmakers should defer to frontline workers and teachers “who are making sacrifices everyday” to be receiving …

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The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives voted 275-134 to meet President Donald Trump’s demand for $2,000 COVID-19 relief checks on Monday, sending the measure on to an uncertain future in the Republican-controlled Senate. The Republican Trump last week threatened to block a massive pandemic aid and spending package if Congress …

L- an image of Valentino Dixon’s painting of the 12th Hole at Augusta National Golf Club. R- Dixon, speaking in the “Making an Exonoree” YouTube documentary.Image: WGRZ Press Photo/ Strong Island Films Inc. Valentino Dixon has a lot to be grateful for these days. Not only did he finally get …

Read: Is television ready for angry women? The film’s premise arose from a simple question: If a woman in real life wanted to take revenge on men who prey on inebriated women, what would that look like? Fennell told me that the first time she could envision the movie was …

When you think of Black billionaires, the names Oprah Winfrey and Jay-Z may instantly come to mind. However, it was Reginald Lewis who paved the way for American moguls in the 1980s. The lawyer and entrepreneur was the first Black man in America to conduct a $985 million deal. After …

Rich The Kid has stepped up and offered support for Famous Dex, who has reportedly checked into rehab.  RELATED: Fans Are Sending Prayers After This Rapper Was So High On Instagram Live, He Nodded Off… Rich signed Dex to his Rich Forever imprint in 2016. Dex left the label in …

0 (Image: Screenshot) Over the weekend in New York City, a white woman falsely accused the 14-year-old son of a Jazz musician of stealing her iPhone at a SoHo hotel, and a portion of the skirmish was captured on video and posted to social media. Jazz musician Keyon Harrold posted the …

Photo: Brendan Smialowski (Getty Images) On Sunday night, President Donald Trump signed legislation for $900 billion in COVID relief funding along with $1.4 trillion in government spending, which averted a government shutdown that was scheduled to arrive on Tuesday. The COVID relief bill—which was approved by both the House and …

Photographs by Ricardo Nagaoka Should American cities defund their police departments? The question has been asked continually—with varying degrees of hope, fear, anger, confusion, and cynicism—since the killing of George Floyd on Memorial Day. It hung over the November election: on the right, as a caricature in attack ads (call …