Black Owned Music Venues | AFRO
With the D.C. fall art season in full swing, Black musicians and patrons alike are getting amped for a chilly…
Regina King and Colman Domingo Make Us Better With ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ | Colorlines
If Beale Street Could Talk,” which debuts in theaters nationwide today (December 25), arrives at the tail end of a…
The American Dream Isn’t for Black Millennials | The New York Times
When I was younger, I wanted to be like Khadijah James when I grew up. She had a really “black”-sounding…
College Board Under Fire for Deciding Black Student Did Too Well on Her SAT | The Root
When Florida high school senior Kamilah Campbell’s SAT scores didn’t stack up the way she wanted, she worked hard to…
Tarana Burke Offers Advice to Survivors Watching ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ | Colorlines
The Lifetime docuseries “Surviving R. Kelly” is filled with survivors’ stories of alleged sexual, physical and emotional abuse. Their interviews,…
Tennessee governor grants clemency to Cyntoia Brown | WREG
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The woman who was sentenced to life in prison at the age of 16 after killing a…
Harlem Hellfighters: The black soldiers who brought jazz to Europe | BBC
World War One brought many social changes – not least, the introduction of jazz to Europe. Thanks to a black…
Black women punished for self-defense must be freed from their cages | The Guardian
On 23 June 1855, after enduring five years of sexual violence, Celia, a 19-year-old Missouri enslaved woman, killed her master,…
The Underground Kitchen That Funded the Civil Rights Movement | Atlas Obscura
On DECEMBER 5, 1955, FOUR days after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a…
Tracing the Real Betty Boop back to a Notorious Bootlegger’s Club in 1920s Harlem | Messy Nessy Chic
The 1920’s in Paris may have been roaring, but over in Harlem, they were stomping. New York’s playground was not…
If Beale Street Could Talk and the Urgency of Black Love | The Atlantic
If Beale Street Could Talk, the 1974 James Baldwin novel, begins with a bittersweet announcement of new life. “Alonzo, we’re…
Letitia James, the 67th New York State Attorney General, is also the first woman to ever hold this particular state-wide office. | Essence
The state of New York rang in the New Year with a brand new attorney general. Democrat Letitia James was…
Bell fires veteran St. Louis County prosecutor who presented grand jury evidence in Michael Brown case | St. Louis Post-Dispatch
CLAYTON • On his second day in office, St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell fired the veteran assistant prosecutor Kathi…
Baltimore trying to stem decades-long disappearing act | The Philadelphia Tribune
BALTIMORE — LaShelle Rollins’ rental house in West Baltimore is wedged between a line of derelict properties valued only by…
New Year Brings Hope and Pushes for Proper Implementation with First Step Act | AFRO
In 2019 organizations that supported the recently passed First Step Act, which helps reform the prison system, are calling for…
DMC, March of Dimes and the Detroit Health Department Address Premature Birth Report Card | Michigan Chronicle
Experts from the Detroit Medical Center, Wayne County Health Department and the March of Dimes gathered on Thursday, Nov. 1,…
Black Girl Magic Indeed: Letitia Wright is Crowned 2018’s Queen of the Box Office | The Root
Whether it was stealing scenes with her acerbic wit as Shuri in Black Panther, popping up as the evocatively named…
Walmart heirs promote charter schools in Black community | The Philadelphia Tribune
Amid fierce debate over whether charter schools are good for Black students, the heirs to the Walmart company fortune have…
Portraits From a Caravan | The New York Times
Has any other word in 2018 been as responsible for so much as “caravan”? By definition, a caravan is a…
Barry Jenkins and Kahlil Joseph Reimagine Roy DeCarava’s Admiring Vision of Harlem | Hyperallergic
When I think of Harlem, I see a neighborhood that’s defined by its past while struggling to shape its future.…
South Jersey Black church being turned into museum honoring Harriet Tubman | New York Amsterdam News
Reports indicate that a church in Cape May, N.J., is being transformed into a museum honoring abolitionist and political activist…
Michelle Obama and Stacey Abrams, Models of Power for Black Women | The New York Times
ATLANTA — Sit down with groups of black women in Atlanta as this tumultuous political year draws to a close,…
(2014) Testimony of a Cleareyed Witness | The New York Times
Color and class are still the great divides in American culture, and few artists have surveyed them as subtly and…
Can an African Pride-Themed Crosswalk Help Reduce Violence? A Durham Activist Thinks So | Atlanta Black Star
The McDougald Terrace public housing complex is home to majority-Black residents who have seen their fair share of shootings and…
Watch Night Service in the Black Church in America: 150 Years After the Emancipation Proclamation | Huffpost
Watch Night Service” in the Black Church in America symbolizes the historical fact, that on the night of Dec. 31,…
Wayne Shorter & Herbie Hancock Pen an Open Letter to the Next Generation of Artists | Nest HQ
From their early days composing and playing together with Miles Davis in Davis’ Second Great Quintet, to branching out and…
Mo’ne Davis, Little League World Series Legend Is Headed To Hampton University | HBCU Buzz
Mo’ne Davis, who four years ago hurled her way into the annals of the Little League World Series and the…
Black student leader sued her racist online harassers and wins groundbreaking settlement | TheGrio
After Taylor Dumpson was elected student body president at American University, she was trolled and racially harassed by several white…
Meet Haitian-Puerto Rican artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, on what would have been his 58th birthday | Face2Face Africa
Perhaps you first heard about Jean-Michel Basquiat earlier in 2017 when his painting, Untitled (1982), sold for a record $110.5…
Gladys West, the ‘hidden figure’ of GPS, inducted into Air Force hall of fame | The Hill
Dr. Gladys West, a mathematician and one of the so-called “Hidden Figures” who was lesser known for her contributions to…
Meet Tytianna Smith 4.6 GPA, 29 ACT Score, 1.7 Million In Scholarships And Headed To HBCU Norfolk State University | Campus Lately
Tytianna Smith is a graduating senior from Lafayette High School in Lafayette, Alabama. She applied to 50 Schools and was…
Kwanzaa 101: A Beginners Guide To Having A Happy Kwanzaa | Blavity
Facebook0 Twitter0 Mail Candice Crutchfield , Blavity African Heritage Dancers dance to the African Heritage Drummers during a Kwanzaa celebration…
21-Year-Old From Viral Howard Homecoming Photo Lands Cover Of Elle Magazine | Blavity
Facebook0 Twitter0 Mail Michael M. Butler, Blavity Photo: Courtesy Next Management. Featured Image Viral images from Anok Yai’s time at…
Buhari, Tinubu, Ofeimun mourn as Sophie Oluwole dies at 83 | Punch
Although our correspondent gathered that Oluwole passed on in the early hours of Sunday in her residence at Ibafo, Ogun…
Dawoud Bey: 40 Years of Photos Affirming the ‘Lives of Ordinary Black People’ | The New York Times
As a socially conscious teenager, Dawoud Bey was intrigued by the controversy over the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 1969 exhibition,…
Even Though He Is Revered Today, MLK Was Widely Disliked by the American Public When He Was Killed | Smithsonian Magazine
According to an early 1968 Harris Poll, the man whose half-century of martyrdom we celebrate this week died with a…
Kara Walker Invites You to a Public Hanging | Hyperallergic
MONTCLAIR, New Jersey — “Virginia’s Lynch Mob” (1998), the centerpiece of Kara Walker: Virginia’s Lynch Mob and Other Works, organized…
WATCH: New Doc Captures Black Southerners’ Resistance | Colorlines
The lives and struggles of residents in four Black communities throughout the South take center stage in “What You Gonna…
[VIDEO] Ibeyi: The French-Cuban twins who sing in Yoruba | BBC
Ibeyi is a band made up of two French-Cuban sisters, who often sing in the West African language Yoruba. They…
Stephan James on how If Beale Street Could Talk will leave you “broken yet so full” | The AV Club
For Stephan James, 2018 was all about getting home, whether he was playing a star-crossed lover in Barry Jenkins’ singular…
The Jonestown We Don’t Know | The New York Review Of Books
This past November marked forty years since Jonestown, shorthand for the collective suicide of more than 900 Americans in a…
Kwanzaa in Philly: How neighborhoods celebrate the African-American holiday | Billy Penn
Judith Robinson has been organizing an annual holiday celebration in her Strawberry Mansion neighborhood for four years now. She hosts…
Black-Owned Startup Combines Greeting Cards With Technology and Automation | Black News.com
Atlanta— “How many times have you found yourself in this scenario: It’s a friend’s or relative’s birthday and you’re driving…
[VIDEO] New Voices Foundation Acquires Madam C.J. Walker’s Estate To Create Think Tank For Black Women Entrepreneurs | Essence
Just in time for the estate’s 100th anniversary, New Voices Foundation, which was founded by ESSENCE Ventures Chair Richelieu Dennis,…
26-Year-Old Photographer Nadine Ijewere On Her Historic Vogue Cover | Vogue
When Nadine Ijewere photographed Dua Lipa, Binx Walton, and Letitia Wright on the Kentish coast for this issue’s cover story,…
Anthony Browder Makes History as the First African American to Lead and Fund an Archeological Excavation Project in Egypt | Los Angeles Sentinel
Washington DC’s own, Anthony “Tony” Browder makes history as the first African American to lead and fund an archeological excavation…
Ayanna Pressley Will Get The Old Office Of Shirley Chisholm, First Black Congresswoman | Huffpost
Massachusetts Rep.-elect Ayanna Pressley (D), who made history in November as the state’s first black woman elected to Congress, will…
Reverse Colonialism Ad Banned In South Africa | AFROPUNK
South African restaurant Chicken Licken has a reputation for epic advertisements and their latest commercial is no different. Their latest…
Nights at the Museum: Good for Cultivating an Art Habit and Romance | The New York Times
Ronald Ollie was an engineering student at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in the early 1970s, he would…
The First Female Black Pilot in Texas Turns 105: Azellia White’s Will to Fly | Texas Hill Country
Born in Gonzales, Texas, in 1913, White married and then moved with her husband Hulon “Pappy” White to Alabama where…
Virginia GOPs Appeal Decision for New Legislative Map That Won’t Pack Black Voters Into Certain Districts | Atlanta Black Star
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear an appeal by Virginia Republicans who are trying to preserve…
Powerful Photos From One of Texas’ Most Historic Black Communities
When photographer Marti Corn moved to The Woodlands, Texas, in 1996, she found herself living next to the subject of…
Senate passes anti-lynching bill after nearly 200 failed attempts | The Washington Times
Led by Sen. Kamala Harris, California Democrat, the bill could impose a sentence of life in prison on those found…
Latent Prejudice Stirs When a Black Man Tries to Join a Charleston Club | The New York Times
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Though the Charleston Rifle Club was founded in 1855 to promote good marksmanship, it is better known…
Inside Afrochella, Ghana’s Answer To Coachella | Travel Noire
With performers, food, and attractions, Afrochella is not so different from California’s annual Coachella Festival, except for one very important…
African American Brewing Company Looks to Find its Niche
Down Home Brewing began canning beer in early 2018, but the concept started way before. “Home-brewing has always been a…
Facebook Shuts Down 20 Pages Spreading Fake News In Ethiopia | Atlanta Black Star
Last “Based on our request, Facebook has shut down 13 fake pages in the past week alone. In recent weeks,…
Andrew Frierson, Pioneering Black Opera Singer, Dies at 94 | The New York Times
His daughter, Andrea Frierson, confirmed the death. Mr. Frierson (pronounced FRY-er-son) made his New York debut at Carnegie Recital Hall…
The Sweet Taste Of Failure | Distinction Magazine
Two perfectly round meringue cookies – joined in the middle by a light cream filling – somehow contain all the…
Slavery Reparations Could Cost Up to $14 Trillion, According to New Calculation | Newsweek
In 1865, toward the end of the Civil War, Union Army General William Tecumseh Sherman promised slaves that they’d receive…