As we move into the Holiday season and stare down the Georgia Senate run-off that will hopefully keep the normally red state blue, it’s important to remember the role that music in general and DJ D-Nice specifically played i...
The internet is celebrating news that late basketball legend Len Bias will be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. Bias leads a group of six players and two coaches that will be enshrined in Kansas City next November. In add...
The Internet is weeping over the Covid-19-related deaths of beloved character actor Tiny Lister, country music legend Charlie Pride and veteran theater and tv actress Carol Sutton. Tommy “Tiny” Lister, 62 The character...
“If Anything Happens I Love You is a silent, animated, short film that chronicles the cavernous grief caused by the loss of a child, but not just any kind of loss — the loss of a child to gun violence via a school shoo...
Guardian Africa correspondent Jason Burke is reporting Ethiopian federal forces have reportedly used heavy artillery to bombard Mekelle, the capital of the northern region of Tigray, with shells hitting the outskirts of the city o...
Archbishop Wilton Gregory has made history as the first African-American in history to be elevated to the College of Cardinals by the Catholic Church. Citing an ongoing concern for Catholics from historically disenfranchised commu...
The 2020 Election season has brought about a number of firsts. In addition to having Kamala Harris elected the first Black and South Asian and woman Vice-President of a major party in the United States, Mauree Turner, a Democrat, ...
BBC is reporting Ghana’s former president Jerry “J.J. Rawlings has died after a brief illness at a hospital in Accra. Rumors are swirling that the charasmatic leader who came to power after leading two coups and then b...
Writing for BET News, The Burton Wire’s founder & editor-in-chief Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D. talks to some of the African American community’s most prized members about the election of Senator Kamala Harris as Vice-Pr...
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...
