CNN is reporting that late Wednesday evening, media tycoon Rupert Murdoch posted a tweet that appeared to question whether President Obama is a “real black” president. Murdoch, 84, tweeted support for presidential cand...
Christina Colman of NewsOne is reporting that the Jefferson County, Alabama chapter of the NAACP is calling for the removal a two murals that they deem to be racist and offensive. The two large murals found in the building’s...
In case you’ve been living under a rock, Wondaland is a musical collective composed of some of today’s hottest musical acts including Janelle Monáe and Jidenna. It is also the name of a label headed by Monae, who count...
Writing for the Associated Press, Lindsey Bahr is reporting the top grossing films of the last month have all had primarily African-American casts and doubled their modest budgets opening weekend, underscoring the reality that mov...
In July 2015, the U.S. women’s soccer team won the World Cup in front of a record-breaking television audience of 26.7 million American viewers. More Americans watched the U.S. women’s soccer team dispose of Japan than watched the...
Bill Hoffmaan of NewsMax is reporting that Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan is calling for African American communities to boycott the upcoming Christmas season. Farrakhan points out that African Americans have a c...
UPDATE: (9/10/15) A judge has ruled that the criminal trials against the six officers accused of killing Freddie Gray will remain in Baltimore, MD. Read more at NBC News. Yvonne Wenger and Mark Puente of The Baltimore Sun are rep...
Mark Washburn of the Charlotte Observer is reporting historian Brenda Tindal, 34, has been named head historian for the Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte, NC. Tindal will take over for retiring historian Tom Hanchett. Ti...
The world is mourning the loss of Congressman Louis Stokes, the first African-American congressman from Ohio, who passed away on Tuesday of this week. Stokes’ daughter Lori, an ABC News anchor in New York City, reported that...
Tyler Whetstone of the Jackson Sun is reporting that the headstone of a relative of the celebrated author and historian Alex Haley has been defaced with racist graffiti. Whetstone writes: “The tombstone of a relative of auth...
