Black America Breaking News for the African American Community

📚 Hark, by Sam Lipsyte (Getty / Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic) How I came to love my epic quarantine reading project “I felt as though an ocular dial had been tweaked and the details of my life—objects, surfaces, textures—began to intensify.” 📚 In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel …

Kirsten Corley Bennett, Chance the Rapper’s wife, took a moment to be transparent about her marriage with the couple’s fans on her Instagram. On Tuesday (Nov. 10) the mother of two shared a fall-themed family portrait featuring her husband and their two daughters, Kensli and Marli. Captioning the post, the …

Officials with the Baton Rouge Police Department have announced the arrest of a man accused of punching and verbally assaulting a female Southern University student athlete. According to WAFB 9, Shane McKinney, 54, was arrested and charged with simple battery on Tuesday (November 10). The alleged incident took place on …

Black Panther star Danai Gurira is tackling Shirley Chisholm’s political career in the upcoming movie, The Fighting Shirley Chisholm.  According to Variety, the script is written by Adam Countee and the film will be directed by Cherien Dabis, who directed several episodes of Empire and The L-Word. The film is …

(Credit: Getty Images/Zillow) Having to move during a pandemic can be daunting, and if you’re a Black woman renter, statistics show that you will be hit harder, pay more in rent and endure systematic racism.  There are advantages, however, to being equipped with information and aligned with organizations that can …

The only person facing charges in the Breonna Taylor police killing is embroiled in another scandal in Kentucky. The former Kentucky police officer, who is facing criminal charges in the Taylor shooting, is now being sued by a young lady who alleges that he sexually assaulted her back in 2018, …

The coronavirus is spiking at record numbers all over the country. One of the hottest infection spots in the nation is the state of Georgia. Now, a COVID-19 scare has stopped all production for Bravo’s Real Housewives of Atlanta.  According to PEOPLE, someone on the production staff tested positive for …

Photo: ChiccoDodiFC (Shutterstock) Cops, in my humble opinion, are generally racist. I don’t think that’s a controversial statement, provided you have at least one foot grounded in reality. Need an example? Well, a trove of leaked texts between two ex-Scranton, Pa., police officers revealed that they were hella racist. According …

Former model-turned-actor Boris Kodjoe, whose mother is German and father is Ghanaian, lived in Germany before he moved to the United States in his late teens. As we all know, racism is a global issue and the 47-year-old recently opened up about experiencing racism in Freiburg, Germany.   “I was part …

His normal schedule already consists of “no public activities,” which is helpful, but he will be expecting “state visits” from foreign leaders. This could easily be accomplished. NATO is governed by the principle of collective security—all for one, one for all—and a clearer case for invoking Article 5 can hardly …