Gene ‘Groove’ Allen, Groove B. Chill Rapper And ‘House Party’ Actor, Dies At 62
February 16, 2025Allen was also known for his character in the beloved ‘House Party’ film franchise.Gene “Grove” Allen, actor beloved…
New museum in Mexico’s capital chronicles the country’s rich mural heritage
The Museo Vivo del Muralismo Photo: Gliserio Castañeda; Courtesy of the Secretaría de Educación PúblicaThe recently opened Museo Vivo del…
Shaq Inks Long-Term Deal To Keep ‘Inside The NBA’ Together
February 16, 2025Ahead of the deal, one of O’Neal’s co-hosts Charles Barkley, indicated that he was going to commit to…
Inspirational Lifestyles: Be Still and Know – Growing in Love (Feb. 14)
Copyright © 2025 Interactive One, LLC. All Rights Reserved.Source: @alyssasieb / nappy.coGROWING IN LOVELove is hard. It means sacrificing our…
Why the champagne house Ruinart believes artists are ‘the best conveyors of what we believe in'
The Berlin-based Danish artist Jeppe Hein's Modified Social Benches #44, in front of the Nicolas Ruinart Pavilion, Reims, designed by…
Deion Sanders Has Heart-To-Heart With Daughter Deiondra Amid Relationship Drama With Jacquees
Source: Jamie Schwaberow / GettyDeiondra Sanders, 32, has dominated headlines recently following a public spat with her fiancé, Jacquees, and…
London exhibition to unite Hockney’s early works on love
David Hockney with The Cha Cha that was Danced in the Early Hours of 24th March 1961 at the Royal…
NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans
The NAACP published a spending guide to help steering Black buying power toward companies still invested in DEI programs. The…
Tuskegee Earns Bragging Rights Over Morehouse In NBA HBCU Classic
February 16, 2025According to Harold Ellis, the Morehouse director of Athletics, the crowd of 19,596 at Oakland’s Oakland Arena was…
Mentions of ‘transgender’ and ‘queer’ removed from US government website dedicated to Stonewall National Monument
Former president Barack Obama declared the Stonewall Inn, the adjacent park and streets a national monument in 2016Robert K. Chin…
Beyoncé’s Formation Performance at the Super Bowl 50 (2016)
Let it play in the background as you study and immerse yourself in this topic!On February 7, 2016, musician Beyoncé…
Where Not To Spend Your Money: NAACP Drops Guide Detailing Companies That Ditched DEI
February 16, 2025The guide lists which companies have stood by and recently dropped their DEI programs and commitments. The NAACP…
Two Black NY heart failure survivors marry after meeting on Valentine’s Day as patients in ICU
Christine and Kendell Paul were married on Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024, after meeting as patients in a New York intensive…
IRS will lay off thousands of probationary workers in the middle of tax season
The layoffs come in the middle of the agency’s busiest season furthering the Trump administration’s goal of reducing the size…
Making America Less Safe?: Trump Officials Scrambling After Firing Nuclear Weapons Staff
February 15, 2025The Trump Administration is now looking to rescind the layoffs of individuals responsible for overseeing the nation’s nuclear…
The Twisted, Dark History Of Valentine’s Day
Source: Canva / R1Valentine’s Day is widely known as a celebration of love, but its origins are far from romantic.…
Roman basilica discovered beneath London office block
The newly discovered building would have been two-and-a-half storeys high, with a courtyard about the size of a football pitchCourtesy…
Tapped Into Tradition: Black-Owned Chicago Brewery Fundraising To Open New Location
February 16, 2025The owner of Funkytown Brewery described the move as an effort to become more integrated into Chicago culture…
Indigenous communities assist with reinterpretation of Arizona petroglyphs
Petroglyph detail of a snail Charlie Leight/ASU NewsPetroglyphs in Arizona dating back thousands of years will soon be digitised and…
Day26 Do’s & Don’ts for Valentine’s Day
Copyright © 2025 Interactive One, LLC. All Rights Reserved.Source: Urban Fierce Group / Urban Fierce GroupLegendary R&B group Day26 is…
In Defense of Black History in Hawaii: How the Dr. Martin Luther King Birthday Became a Hawaii State Holiday
In January 2025, Daphne Barbee-Wooten, a Hawaii historian and social activist attorney wrote the article below describing the campaign to…
Grieving Detroit mother who lost two children to freezing temperatures says her pleas for help went unanswered
Before losing her children to hypothermia after sleeping in their van, this Detroit mother reached out for help — only…
Boxer Keyshawn Davis Heated After “Racist” Package Of Bananas and Watermelon Sent To Him Ahead Of Fight
Source: Elsa / GettyTaunting is just part of the competitive nature of sports, but perhaps none take it as seriously…
Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s The Gates revived, in exhibition and augmented reality, 20 years later
Christo and Jeanne-Claude at The Gates, New York City, February 2005 Photo: Wolfgang Volz. © 2005 Christo and Jeanne-Claude FoundationFor…
Henry Louis Gates Jr. (1950- )
Henry Louis Gates Jr. is an award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, and cultural critic. He was born on September 16,…
Kanye West Claps Back At Lyor Cohen Over Open Letter About Antisemitism
Copyright © 2025 Interactive One, LLC. All Rights Reserved.Source: Kevin Mazur / GettyKanye West has thrown any cares he had…
Cemetery for enslaved people rediscovered at Andrew Jackson’s Tennessee plantation
An aerial view of the cemetery site at Andrew Jackson’s plantation, the Hermitage. For decades, the area was completely overgrown,…
Khaled Sabsabi will no longer represent Australia at the Venice Biennale in 2026
Khaled Sabsabi Photo: © Anna KuceraAustralia’s plans for the next Venice Biennale lie in ruins, after the country's selected artist…
Reps Say Kanye West & Bianca Censori Divorce Rumors Are False, Allegedly
Copyright © 2025 Interactive One, LLC. All Rights Reserved.Source: Jeff Kravitz / GettyThis past Thursday (Feb. 13) social media was…
Mel Bochner, conceptual artist known for text paintings and wry humour, has died, aged 84
Mel Bochner at Villa Sciarra in Rome in 1985 Photo by Lizbeth Marano. Courtesy of Bochner Studio and Peter Freeman…
Trump moves with dizzying speed on his to-do list. But there are warning signs in his first month
President Donald Trump’s rapid policy shifts reshape the U.S. government, the economy, and global relations amid legal and political pushback.As…
Marshawn Lynch and Kadeem Hardison join Zendaya for ‘Euphoria’ Season 3
After a three-year hiatus, “Euphoria” announces new cast members, Marshawn Lynch and Kadeem Hardison, as it kicks off production.“Euphoria” Season…
TikTok Back In Apple & Google Play Stores, X Reacts To The Latest Developments
Copyright © 2025 Interactive One, LLC. All Rights Reserved.Source: NurPhoto / Getty / TikTokTikTok is back in the Apple Store…
Jevon Dewand & The Trap Starz Is Number 1 On Billboard’s Gospel Air Play Chart This Week (Week of February 15, 2025)
Copyright © 2025 Interactive One, LLC. All Rights Reserved. To Jevon Dewand & The Trap Starz, “trap” doesn’t refer to…
Woman withdraws civil lawsuit against Jay-Z, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs alleging she was raped at age 13
The unidentified woman alleged that she was attacked by the hip-hop stars in 2000 after Combs’ limo driver offered her…
DOJ Lawyers Resign Instead of Giving NYC Mayor Eric Adams Pardon
Copyright © 2025 Interactive One, LLC. All Rights Reserved.Source: Michael M. Santiago / GettySix officials with the Department of Justice…
Solange Knowles Is The Muse On Document Journal’s Special Winter Issue
Source: Nina Westervelt / GettySolange Knowles has done it again. The creative magnate has captured the essence of Black Girl…
Records set for Arab artists at Sotheby’s debut Saudi Arabia auction
Sotheby’s Oliver Barker leads the Origins auction on 8 FebruaryCourtesy of Sotheby’sSotheby’s inaugural auction in Saudi Arabia—and the country’s first…
Pioneering MC and actor, Gene ‘Groove’ Allen, passes away at age 63
The rapper was part of the group Groove B. Chill and starred in several popular movies in the 1990s.Gene “Groove”…
Two mystery figures discovered beneath Picasso Blue Period painting
Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto (1901)Oskar Reinhart collection ‘Am Römerholz’, Winterthur, SwitzerlandConservators at The Courtauld Institute in…
Google Calendar Users Noticed The Disappearance Of Black History Month, They Weren’t Happy
February 15, 2025Although the tech giant removed the holidays from its calendar app, it will still track them via Google…
Why Black Businesses In The US Never Had An Advantage
Source: FG Trade / GettyBlack-owned businesses play an important role in the building of generational wealth for a lot of…
Gap x Harlem’s Fashion Row Launch Capsule Collection Full Of Black Designers
February 14, 2025Gap x Harlem’s Fashion Row unveiled their capsule collection that celebrates Black-owned brands and designers.Gap has teamed up…
Is Trump Ignoring His Promises That Won Him The Election?
Copyright © 2025 Interactive One, LLC. All Rights Reserved.Source: SAUL LOEB / GettyFrom cutting research to cure diseases like Alzheimer’s…
Beauty Products Targeting Black Women Bring Increased Risk Of Cancer And Health Hazards
February 14, 2025New research reveals that many of the beauty products targeting Black women bring an increased risk of exposure…
12 Notable Black Female Preachers You Should Know
Copyright © 2025 Interactive One, LLC. All Rights Reserved.Source: New York Daily News Archive / GettyFor many Black women, spirituality…
The Wayans family are the latest inductees in the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame
The Wayans family will receive their flowers for their multi-generational comedic legacy during the 2025 NAACP Image Awards. This year’s…
Megan Thee Stallion Clear To Proceed With Defamation Lawsuit
February 14, 2025Megan Thee Stallion’s case against blogger will continue.Megan Thee Stallion’s defamation case will continue after a judge ruled…
Bryson Tiller’s New Album ‘Solace’ Is Dropping Soon
Copyright © 2025 Interactive One, LLC. All Rights Reserved.Source: Dimitrios Kambouris / GettyR&B fans, get ready—Bryson Tiller is making his…
Caravaggio masterpiece painted in Naples rather than Sicily, researchers suggest
A receipt indicates that payment for The Adoration of the Shepherds was sent to Naples rather than SicilyNew research suggests…
Justice Department asks court to dismiss corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams
The nation’s top law enforcement agency formally filed its request with a New York court. However, a judge still needs…
Anger, chaos and confusion take hold as federal workers face mass layoffs
As layoff notices were sent out to agencies, federal employees were left reeling from being told that their services were…
Amos O’Neal (1961- )
Michigan State Representative Amos O’Neal was born on July 17, 1961, in Saginaw, Michigan. He attended Saginaw Public Schools and…
Morris Chestnut Gears Up For The New Medical Mystery Drama, ‘Watson’
February 14, 2025The show explores a different side of the beloved Sherlock Holmes character. Morris Chestnut stars in Watson, a…
Sharjah Biennial 16: sprawling emirate-wide exhibition regains its edge
Installation view of Michael Parekōwhai, He Kōrero Pūrākau mo te Awanui o Te Motu: Story of a New Zealand river…
Naya Rivera’s ex reveals son believed he could’ve saved her during drowning death in 2020
Ryan Dorsey opens up about how his son, Josey, is grappling with Rivera’s passing nearly five years later.Nearly five years…
Issa Rae cancels sold-out event at the Kennedy Center following Trump’s takeover
Fans will receive refunds after Issa Rae cancels her upcoming show at the Kennedy Center due to what she deems…
Jay-Z & Sean “Diddy” Combs Rape Lawsuit Dismissed, X Reacts
Copyright © 2025 Interactive One, LLC. All Rights Reserved.A lawsuit filed by Jane Doe represented by Texas attorney Tony Buzbee…
15 Black romance movies to watch this Valentine’s Day or any day
What better excuse does one need to cuddle up on the couch under the blankets and settle in for some…
This is what happens to the body when HIV drugs are stopped for millions of people
Trump’s foreign aid freeze is causing chaos in a system that, for over 20 years, has kept millions of people…