UPDATE: It is now being reported that five people died in the helicopter crash that claimed NBA legend Kobe Bryant’s life. One of the victims is his 13-year-old daughter Gianna a.k.a. Gigi Bryant. TMZ and Variety are ...
Season 12 of the critically-acclaimed television series AfroPop premiered Monday, January 20th on The WORLD CHANNEL, exploring the legacies of Afrobeat creators Fela Kuti and Tony Allen. The AfroPoP season opener featured Joel Zit...
The New York Times reported E. R. Braithwaite, a Guyanese author, diplomat and former Royal Air Force pilot whose book “To Sir, With Love,” a memoir of teaching in London’s deprived East End, was adapted into a hit 1967 film starr...
OWN‘s hit reality television shows Family or Fiancé, hosted by relationship expert Tracy McMillan returns to television Saturday, Jan. 11 at 9/8c on the OWN television network. The hit television show follows engaged couples...
Irving Burgie, Songwriter who helped bring Calypso to America has died. Burgie wrote the calypso song “Day-O” (“The Banana Boat Song”) which became a huge hit for singer/actor Harry Belafonte in 1956. Burgie, who went by the name ...
Zozibini Tunzi was crowned Miss Universe Sunday making it the first time Miss America, Miss USA, Miss Teen USA and Miss Universe are all black women. In her closing statement, Tunzi stated, “I grew up in a world where a woma...
Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Burton WireTap™, The Burton Wire’s podcast which discusses topics and issues at the intersection of black culture and society. Hosted by The Burton Wire‘s founder & editor-in...
The Twitterverse is in an uproar over the disqualification of Nigerian film ‘Lionheart’ from Oscar consideration because it is in English, which is the official language of Nigeria. Nigeria submitted its first-ever Osc...
Reuters Africa is reporting at least 22 people have been killed and dozens more are missing following a landslide caused by heavy rainfall in Douala. Rescue teams in Cameroon were scouring the rubble of destroyed houses for surviv...
BBC Africa’s documentary, Sex For Grades: Undercover Inside Nigerian and Ghanaian Universities, exposes the culture of sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse that exists in the university system. More than 2 million peopl...
