EXCLUSIVE: “It’s about education, not only for customers, about the history, but also for the students,” says Getty Images’ Cassandra Illidge. Getty Images is awarding four historically Black colleges and universities — Claflin University, Jackson State, North Carolina Central University and Prairie View A&M University — a $500,000 grant to digitize their archival photographic libraries. …
Source: Yuanshuai Si / Getty Young black people love them some Atlanta. I’ve heard it called the Mecca for young black professionals. Believe it or not, there have even been comparisons to the fictional city of Wakanda. There is no question Atlanta is a bustling city. It is one of the fastest-growing cities in America….
Source: Fulton County Government / Youtube Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis took one more step closer to bringing charges against Donald Trump and his acolytes for alleged interference in the Georgia 2020 election. Willis has been steadily building a case over the past year, giving Trump more consideration than a Republican Secretary of State…
On “Hannity” Monday night, Peter Doocy described how Biden personally called him later and “cleared the air.” At the end of a press conference Monday night, President Joe Biden was peppered with questions from White House reporters, including one from Peter Doocy of Fox News Channel. Doocy asked the president if inflation would be a…
Well before hip-hop mogul and all around multi-hyphenate Sean ‘P Diddy” Combs would step into acting opportunities in films such as “A Raisin in the Sun” and Monster’s Ball,” he reportedly had his eyes set on another role — that of the lead in the 1992 hit movie “Juice.” According to Ralph McDaniels, the founder…
As the world prepares for the new A&E documentary, “Janet,” a two-part, four-hour glimpse into the life of the music’s first Black pop princess Janet Jackson, Jermaine Dupri reflects on a warning his “Pleasure Principle” girlfriend gave him when they were dating. The So So Def music mogul did a recent interview on “Ryan Cameron…
The white man in Connecticut who starred in a viral video that showed him using racist language while violently attacking teenage smoothie shop workers over the contents of a smoothie also threaded to kill them “multiple times,” according to one of the employees. Two of the three young workers at a Robeks shop in Fairfield…
An ex-cop from Seattle is suing the city’s police department for terminating him after he punched a handcuffed woman in the face in 2014. The Black man claims he tried to de-escalate a dispute, but since he couldn’t, he responded with the level of force to which he’d been trained. He finds race and revenge…
More details have emerged in the wake of Regina King’s son’s untimely death. The aspiring musician and only child of the Academy Award winner committed suicide last week, days after celebrating his 26th birthday. A week before Ian Alexander Jr.’s death, the rising star took to his Twitter account, where he shared several posts reflecting…
Words can do more than tell a story. They can also paint a beautiful picture, filled will rich detail and history. Talented black orators, poets, and wordsmiths of the past, born with the gift to articulate words like an artist stroking a paintbrush across an open canvas, captivated the world in all aspects of life….
