Grammy award-winning music legend Dennis Edwards of The Temptations has died. Edwards joined The Temptations in 1968 after the departure of group founder David Ruffin. He was the featured vocalist on hits like “Papa Was a Ro...
The Twitterverse is celebrating the 2018 Oscar nominations of Dee Rees’ Mudbound and Jordan Peele’s Get Out announced today. Jordan Peele earned a best director nomination for his social-justice thriller “Get Out...
Multiple media outlets are reporting Hugh Masekela, the man known as the “Father of South African Jazz,” has died. Masekela played many instruments but was best known as a trumpeter, singer and composer. Masekela playe...
The 2018 African Nations Championship (CHAN) in Morocco is underway. The fifth tournament of the biennial sports event that features the men’s national teams of Africa kicked off on January 13 and is rolling along. The Confe...
ATTN released a video on the racist history of tipping on its social media platforms that has online audiences buzzing. Surprise, no surprise, tipping is tied to slavery. It seems that every questionable practice in the U.S. leads...
Caribbean 360 is reporting United States President Donald Trump has been declared “persona non grata” by Pan-Africanists and socialists in response to comments made by Trump about Haiti and El Salvador. The author repo...
BBC Africa is reporting two American and two Canadian citizens kidnapped Wednesday, January 17 have been released by their captors. The author writes: “The group, who were ambushed in a forested area north of the capital Abu...
This video examines Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s last speech in which he talks about having been stabbed and learning had he sneezed, the tip of the knife which was near his aorta, would have killed him and he would have bl...
The Burton Wire‘s founder & editor-in-chief Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D. appeared today on WABE 90.1 FM’s “Closer Look with Rose Scott,” to discuss the impact of Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy on tod...
‘AFROPOP’ OPENS WITH ‘BLACK PANTHER WOMAN’ ON MLK DAY The 10th anniversary season of the documentary series AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange opens with Rachel Perkins’ Black Panther Woman, a look back at the Black Panther ...
