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It’s been revealed in a new document from the Equal Justice Initiative that during the Jim Crow South era 4,000 Black people were lynched. Nearly every name was written as a part of the research file, as another 700 more of other racial backgrounds were included in this huge blemish of American history. MUST READ: France Prides Itself […]
First Lady Michelle Obama is making history by becoming the first person to grace the cover of Cooking Light magazine since it debuted 28 years ago. In the upcoming March issue, Mrs. Obama discussed family dinners as a child, the five year anniversary of her Let’s Move! campaign and how American families can better their […]
NYPD police officer Peter Liang has been indicted today in the shooting death of 28-year-old Akai Gurley in Brooklyn on November 2014. Gurley was unarmed in the “pitch black” stairwell of the Louis H. Pink Houses project when he and Liang crossed paths and the officer fired a single shot. MUST READ: Eric Holder Calls Lack […]
Celebrated author, Eric Jerome Dickey took home the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work Fiction for his latest novel “A Wanted Woman.” The 53-year-old New York Times best-selling author is best known for penning a huge section in the contemporary African-American literary world. If you’ve never read an Eric Jerome Dickey novel allow me to introduce […]
A former fashion model is the latest in over a dozen women to accuse Bill Cosby of sexual assault. Former model and actress Helen Gumpel also known as Helen Selby has come forward with allegations Cosby made unwanted sexual advances towards her when she appeared on his self-titled sitcom in 1988. The Associated Press is […]
Beyoncé Explains “Take My Hand, Precious Lord” Grammy Performance Beyoncé is finally breaking her silence (sort of) on why she and not Ledisi performed “Take My Hand, Precious Lord” at last night’s Grammys. Viewers online were split over Queen Bey being chosen to sing the gospel song and not Ledisi who sang it for the […]
Three authors collaborated on the instructional book Promises Kept: Raising Black Boys to Succeed in School and in Life, and Joe Brewster, Michele Stephenson, and Hilary Beard were all honored with the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Instructional)! Similar to the film Boyhood, Promises Kept was years in the making, as co-authors Brewster and Stephenson are […]
Who said Dorks finish last? Not so in the world of Rachel Renee Russell’s “Dork Diaries” — the recipient of the 2015 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for children. The New York Time’s Best Selling series. The Diaries chronicle life of Nikki Maxwell, who is based on Russell’s true life teenage daughters Erin and […]
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 […]
The state of Alabama is again at the forefront of change in the United States. It’s been reported that a handful of its cities and towns granted marriage licenses to homosexual couples. While this was a progressive step forward against the traditional Southern outlook (read: marriage is between a man and a woman) of holy matrimony, […]
Female genital mutilation is a harrowing procedure for girls and women. Parts of the genitalia are removed and the reasons for their extraction are 100 percent non-medical. Feminists and women’s rights activists have fought for decades against the act as it seen as a way of confiscating or deriving women of their human rights and sexual […]
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? […]
