Loretta Devine took home the 2015 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance for her role as Hallie The Hippo in “Doc McStuffins,” a Disney and Disney Junior cartoon series about a little Black girl who can “fix” toys, with help from her stuffed animal friends. This cartoon has become a wildly popular hit […]

Bryan Stevenson picked up the 2015 NAACP Image Awards Outstanding Literary Work in the category of non-fiction for his critically acclaimed memoir “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption.” Stevenson founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending the impoverished, disenfranchised and falsely accused members of society. Stevenson has been compared to […]

The 46th Annual NAACP Image Awards just might have been the most incredible night of style that we’ve ever seen. Our red carpet host, Toccara Jones brought her infectious supersize personality to the carpet and chatted with some of our favorite starlets in Black Hollywood. We caught up with Tracee Ellis Ross who showed off her amazing physique in a fitted, […]

If you only had 6-seconds to give an acceptance speech at the NAACP Image Awards, what would you say? Who would you thank? We put some of Black Hollywood’s finest thespians on the spot on the red carpet of the #ImageAwards and gave them the opportunity to thank the supportive people in their lives…the catch? […]

  Detroit resident James Robertson’s commute to work just became a bit easier. For 10 years Robertson would walk 21 miles to his factory job in Rochester Hills, Mi after his 1988 Honda Accord quit working 10 years ago. Robertson’s story made headlines when the local newspaper brought his story to the spotlight, revealing how the […]

It was a night to celebrate Black excellence at its finest, as the best in entertainment were honored at the 2015 NAACP Image Awards on…

Just two weeks ago, we reported on how Humans of New York profiled 13-year-old Vidal Chastanet who praised his principal Ms. Nadia Lopez because “She told each one of us that we matter.” Social media picked up on the story and after a boatload of likes, comments and shares that led to a fundraiser, over a million dollars has been raised […]

In 2013 six students of color from the Bronx Academy of Promise submitted the math app Quest Math for the Verizon Innovative App Challenge. Later that year they won the competition along with nine other teams (beating over 350 other teams, and 1,000 schools). Now, the Bronx whiz kids are starring in two Verizon commercials that are set to air […]

BET Greenlights Season 3 Pick Up For Being Mary Jane BET is all about Being Mary Jane. Just two days after the Salim and Mara Brock Akil drama starring Gabrielle Union returned for its second season, the network announced it renewed the series for a third season! BET made the announcement via Twitter saying: UP NEXT: ‘Misadventures […]