Black America Breaking News for the African American Community

Twitter has been making up policy as it goes along, because it has had to. It has been more transparent this year about its decisions than it was in years prior, because demands for accountability have finally reached an unignorable pitch, but we can still only speculate about much of …

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Lawrence Clayton, a veteran actor who made his Broadway debut as C.C. White in the 1981 film Dreamgirls, has reportedly passed away. Deadline reports that Clayton died on November 2. His death follows a two-year fight with glioblastoma cancer. RELATED: Quinn Coleman, Record Executive, DJ And Son Of Former BET …

South Carolina Democrat Jaime Harrison told the Washington Post Tuesday, he is interested in becoming the Democratic National Committee Chair. The Yale graduate and former high school teacher told the Post he’s not only interested in the position, but he has the support of House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), …

Chadwick Boseman’s final feature performance before his untimely demise, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, which stars Viola Davis, hits Netflix on December 18. The film is already getting Oscar buzz and his co-stars have spoken out about how dynamic he was on screen even while battling cancer. Viola Davis is now …

Photo: Andrey_Popov (Shutterstock) We live in strange times, y’all—an era of fabricated electoral disputes, a very real pandemic, and seemingly a holiday for every event and demographic imaginable. For instance, here in the United States, November 11 is commonly observed as Veterans Day. But in China, the “Double 11″ date …

We’re just at the start of the holiday season and  Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is already spreading joy.  According to 11 Alive, Johnson surprised Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta “with the new Xbox series video game consoles along with specialized portable gaming kiosks, called ‘GO Karts.’” However, it wasn’t just Children’s …

The Atlantic is pleased to offer, below, an adapted and updated excerpt from former President Barack Obama’s new memoir, A Promised Land, which will be published on Tuesday by Crown. Yesterday, The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, sat down with President Obama to conduct the first interview for publication …

Lawrence Clayton, a veteran actor who made his Broadway debut as C.C. White in the 1981 film Dreamgirls, has reportedly passed away. Deadline reports that Clayton died on November 2. His death follows a two-year fight with glioblastoma cancer. RELATED: Quinn Coleman, Record Executive, DJ And Son Of Former BET …

Usher is giving his fans a lot more info about his newborn baby daughter, Sovereign. On Wednesday (November 11), the singer joined Ellen DeGeneres to speak about his little one and revealed she was born early. “She came out early,” he told DeGeneres during a virtual appearance on The Ellen …