The historic deal grants free-streaming digital platform HBCU GO cable, linear, streaming, broadcast, VOD and pay-per-view rights to SWAC sporting events. Allen Media Group, owned by Byron Allen, announced that its free-streaming digital platform, HBCU GO, the leading media provider for the nation’s 105 historically Black colleges and universities, is entering into a multi-year partnership…
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Secretary Tom Vilsack and members of a 15-member equity commission tell theGrio the USDA’s aim is to redress the wrongs of the past. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is responding to President Joe Biden’s executive order to form a 15-member independent equity commission intended to fix discrimination in its ranks, particularly aimed…
Whether it’s in person or on-screen, ladies love seeing Leon‘s handsome face. The legendary actor, who could pass for 20, recently celebrated his 60th birthday last week by having dinner with his mother. Along with a photo to showcase their good family genes, Leon wrote in the caption, “Keeping it #oldschool with my mom on…
Dallas paramedics were called to assist an injured middle school substitute teacher after he was hit in the head with a chair by a student in the class. Video of the incident, one showing the educator retaliating by throwing two chairs at the child, went viral, prompting the district to cancel classes at the school…
The freshman ABC sitcom has been a hit since it premiered this year, nearly quadrupling it’s ratings week after week Get ready for more Abbott Elementary. This week, ABC announced that the critical and ratings smash will return for a second season. From the mind of Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary has become one of the…
Ryan Coogler poses for a portrait backstage during ABFF Talks: A Conversation with Ryan Coogler at the New World Symphony Center during the 22nd Annual American Black Film Festival on June 16, 2018, in Miami Beach, Florida. | Source: Jason Koerner / Getty For years, Atlanta has ranked among the top cities for Black people…
Actor Samuel Jackson says his family has a history of dementia and believes that working is a way that he can “fight the fear” of the age-specific illness. While promoting his new TV series, “The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey,” a production about a 93-year-old man suffering from dementia that gets a gift of memory,…
The Dayton Daily News reports that Black youth make up only 15-16% of Ohio’s population, yet 61% of the state’s missing kids are Black. Data provided by the Ohio Attorney General’s Office revealed that 61% of missing people who were under the age of 18 when they vanished in that state are African American. The…
A photo of the suspected serial killer of homeless people in New York City and Washington, D.C. | Source: DC Police Department Police have arrested a person identified as the prime suspect in a string of killings of homeless people in New York City and Washington, D.C., following nearly two harrowing weeks of what’s been…
After a Chicago movie critic started a petition to recast King T’Challa, played by Chadwick Boseman, in the upcoming “Black Panther” film, fans have suggested an “Insecure” actor as a suitable replacement. Emmanuel Noisette from TheMovieBlog.com has led the charge on pushing studio executives to consider recasting Boseman’s role as King T’Challa, launching a petition that amassed,…
