Many are celebrating the U.S. House of Representatives vote to pass the Equality Act, a major LGBTQ rights bill that outlaws discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in housing, employment, credit, jury servi...
The ACLU has appointed Deborah Archer, a New York University (NYU) law professor and former assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund to head the American Civil Liberties Union, making Archer the first Blac...
The SCAD aTVFest 2021 has kicked off this year showcasing some of the best and brightest in television. The festival, which usually takes over Midtown Atlanta, is virtual this year due to COVID-19. Now in its ninth year, SCAD aTVf...
The internet is reeling from news acting legend Cicely Tyson has died at age 96. Tyson recently appeared on “Talk of the Table” with Gayle King to discuss her new memoir Just As I Am. The Emmy- and Tony-winning actress...
Ava DuVernay’s “Queen Sugar” returns to OWN, Tuesday, February 16, 2021 at 8 p.m. EST. The series, which was just picked up for a sixth season ahead of the season five return, has been lauded for its powerful por...
Herstory is being made. President-elect Joseph Biden and Vice-President-Elect Kamala Harris will be inaugurate tomorrow. Biden will become the nation’s 46th President and Harris will become the nation’s first African-A...
NB: Last week’s insurrection at the United States Capitol has led many to ponder just who we are as a nation and where we are headed? During what could only be called our nation’s downward spiral these past four years,...
Writing for Courier Newsroom, The Burton Wire‘s founder & editor-in-chief Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D., discusses how Black women continue to have hope for democracy in the face of despair while living in an anti-Black and se...
Tonight audiences have the chance to meet the team behind The History of White People in America, the animated series that explores how skin color became race and how race came to shape the trajectory of American history. Now stre...
In case you’ve been living under a rock, Black folks made history at the 72nd Emmy Awards last night (9/20/20). Zendaya won the lead drama actress Emmy for her turn as Rue Bennett, a troubled, drug-addicted teen on HBO’s “Eu...
