Entertainment Featured Interviews Television January 22, 2021 ‘Grown-ish’ cast talks new season, global pandemic and Black Lives Matter Grown-ish is back and picking up right where season three left off, seeing Yara Shahidi’s Zoey Johnson leaving college to...
Featured Health January 19, 2021 Black activists split over COVID-19 vaccine due to history of racism in medicine As Black activists continue to pour into the streets to push America to reckon with its systemic racism, they are...
Black Business Business Featured January 18, 2021 D.C. Black-owned businesses prepare for inauguration week amid threats of violence In the aftermath of the attempted armed takeover of the Capitol, a number of Washington’s Black-owned businesses have decided to...
Featured Politics January 14, 2021 Washington activists call for expulsion of some GOP lawmakers in wake of attempted coup With Washington still scrambling to make sense of last week’s attempted coup, a group called Shutdown DC gathered in front...
AFRO-LATINX January 12, 2021 Afro-Puerto Rican identity explored in ‘Afro-Latinx Revolution: Puerto Rico’ documentary Latin America and the Caribbean received 95 percent of the Africans stolen during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. But what does...
News Politics January 8, 2021 Congressional Black Caucus says law enforcement ‘complicit’ in Capitol attack, calls for immediate investigation Rep. André Carson just ended a Zoom meeting with fellow members of the Congressional Black Caucus when he was informed...
Politics January 3, 2021 Ossoff hired 2,000 young mostly Black Georgians for community mobilizing All eyes will be on Georgia on Jan. 5 as a pair of U.S. Senate runoff elections will determine if...
Featured News December 31, 2020 Harris Senate seat pick reveals Black women are still not truly valued A year like no other. Herstoric. Challenging. Knee buckling. Groundbreaking. Barrier shattering. Distressing. Ups and downs that no one could...
Entertainment Featured Film News Reviews December 30, 2020 ‘Soul’ is just what we needed at the end of 2020 Disclaimer: There are spoilers in this review Pixar’s newest film, Soul, has left viewers questioning their entire existence and contemplating...
Entertainment Featured December 30, 2020 Dance pioneer Adolfo ‘Shabba-Doo’ Quinones dead at 65: report Early Wednesday, dance historians and lovers of all things hip-hop were saddened by reports that Adolfo Quinones, more commonly known...
Featured Opinion Opinions December 30, 2020 What Black women’s political wish list should be for 2021 As we near the end of 2020, Black women political elites and citizens alike deserve more than a round of...
Business Career Featured December 29, 2020 Brooklyn native launches start-up to assist more Black tech entrepreneurs The technology industry is known for its paucity of diversity. In an industry dominated by white men, the number of...
Featured Lifestyle December 29, 2020 Poet Nikki Giovanni on BLM using their power: ‘They’re not afraid to be themselves’ Nikki Giovanni is one of the most world-renowned and celebrated poets, activists, and literary giants. A pioneer during the Black...
Books Career Finance December 28, 2020 After 25 years we’re still asking: ‘Why should white guys have all the fun?’ When you think of Black billionaires, the names Oprah Winfrey and Jay-Z may instantly come to mind. However, it was...
Featured Opinion Opinions Politics December 27, 2020 Trump’s pardons, rage tweeting is peak white male privilege. Obama could never. Can you imagine if President Barack Obama’s final days before his White House exit in 2016 looked anything close to...
Featured News December 23, 2020 Indiana hospital reacts to Black doctor dying of virus after claims of racism As the coronavirus pandemic made a devastating sweep across the globe it became clear that while the virus didn’t respect...
Featured Health Opinion Opinions December 22, 2020 COVID -19 Vaccine Acceptance: A Black physician’s plea to the Black community As I walked to the top floor of the Perelman Center to receive the novel COVID-19 vaccine, I was filled...
Featured Politics December 21, 2020 Maxine Waters apologizes for stimulus wait, vows to demand more from Biden The passage of the $900 billion stimulus plan over the weekend came after months of stalled negotiations between Republicans and...
Featured Living Opinion Opinions December 21, 2020 Grinch scaring Black children for fun and photo ops is actually traumatizing Most people associate the Christmas holiday with creating warm, happy moments and memories for their children. But it seems that...
Featured News December 21, 2020 Gen. Lloyd Austin’s historic Defense nom gets backing from NAACP, other Black orgs As President-elect Joe Biden‘s nominee for Defense Secretary, Gen. Lloyd Austin, faces a challenge to be confirmed by the U.S....
