Journalist. Scholar. Game changer. The media world is reeling over the loss of legendary journalist and biographer Lerone Bennett, Jr. Bennett is known as a definitive chronicler of black life and events through his work for iconi...
The Burton Wire is sad to report Peabody Award-winning director and longtime former executive director of National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC)—now Black Public Media—has died. Her death was announced by Black Public Media ...
The Guardian is reporting Cape Town’s leadership is preparing to be without water in what has become a losing battle against climate change. The city known as “The Mother City” and famous for it’s harbor an...
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...
