It fascinates Tyler Perry to create programming structured around people and what results from their choices. The dynamic actor, writer, producer, playwright and director’s latest small screen foray, Too Close to Home, is a dramat...
AnimeKon 2016, one of the Caribbean’s largest celebrations of Geek and Pop Culture took place August 27-28. Thousands of people came from all over the world to attend the two-day convention which was held at the Lloyd Erskin...
AllAfrica.com is reporting black girls in Pretoria, South Africa are protesting rules about hair styles allowed at school, which they say ban natural hairstyles worn by black students. The article states: “Tears flowed as bl...
Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress Phylicia Rashad will join the cast of Fox’s ‘Empire’ this season. Rashad will play the role of Diana DuBois, a powerhouse from one of New York’s oldest and most prominent...
AL.com is reporting funeral plans have been set for George E. Curry, a journalist, civil rights activist and publisher whose syndicated column ran in hundreds of black-owned newspapers around the United States. The Laurel, ...
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES. NewsOne is reporting the parents of Kendrick Johnson, a teenager whose dead body was found rolled up in a gym mat at his Lowndes High School on January 11, 2013, have been ordered by Judge Richard P...
Writing for Black Press USA, National Newspaper Publishers of America (NNPA) President and CEO Dr. Benjamin Chavis examines why the black press still matters. Dr. Chavis discusses the historical and contemporary significance of th...
While the world is caught up in the tomfoolery that is Olympian Ryan Lochte and company’s Rio shenanigans, something beautiful was happening in Rio at the actual Olympic games. Rheana Murray of Today.com is righting the ship...
BBC is reporting former Premier League footballer Dalian Atkinson has died after being shot with a taser near his father’s home in the British town of Telford on Thursday. The writer identified as Shropshire reports: “...
BBC Africa is reporting Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has released a video showing some of the 276 school girls they abducted from the northern town of Chibok in 2014. The article states: “Some 50 girls are shown with a...
