“There was pressure on both sides,” he says Matt James is speaking out about his journey as the first Black Bachelor. James appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Friday and dished with guest host Arsenio Hall about the pressures he faced being the franchise’s first Black male lead. “It was a lot,” he admitted, per…
The show is the first of its kind and was birthed from the first Black-owned, faith-based FM radio and television station in Boston. On Friday, Sept. 24, Boston Black News and The Boston Globe premiered their new community radio show Black News Hours Presented by The Boston Globe. The hour-long radio show is aimed at…
Source: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / Getty Black women face hardships on levels that some of us will never be able to comprehend, and unfortunately, that often includes harassment in the workplace. Surprisingly enough, the strong Black females of the DC Police Department understand that notion more than expected after filing a class action lawsuit against MPDC,…
Despite some issues that led to top leaders stepping down, the new chief executive says there will be more openness going forward Almost four years ago, a group of high-profile Hollywood women — producers, agents, movie stars — formed Time’s Up, an ambitious initiative to fight sexual harassment in their own industry and beyond, as…
Last August, Forbes announced that Barbados-born global superstar Rihanna had once again become the richest female musician to date. However, this time around, not only was the “Umbrella” singer the richest female in the industry but she had also crossed the Billionaire threshold, with a net worth of roughly $1.7 billion. Still, the big B…
Officials look to discourage large groups of migrants from making the trek to Del Rio, Texas camp No migrants are left at a Texas border encampment, about a week after nearly 15,000 people — most of them Haitians — huddled in makeshift shelters hoping for the chance to seek asylum. Some will get that chance,…
The convicted murderer of nine in a historic South Carolina church has asked for a new hearing in his case. He is the first person to be sentenced to death for a federal hate crime. Attorneys for the federal government have opposed Dylann Roof’s request for a new appellate hearing, arguing that the South Carolina…
The five-time Emmy Award nominee was discovered dead in his Brooklyn apartment earlier this month The Chief Medical Examiner in New York City has determined that Michael K. Williams died of a drug overdose. Williams’ official cause of death is acute intoxication by the combined effects of fentanyl, p-fluorofentanyl, heroin and cocaine, per TMZ. His…
Legal challenge may finally bring monetary justice to three survivors a century after the massacre in a Black district in Oklahoma Tulsa Race Massacre survivors are due back in court on Sept. 28. This time a judge will decide on a motion on whether to allow a case that may finally award three remaining survivors…
Jurors are due back in court Monday to resume deliberations on charges against R. Kelly R. Kelly’s fate is now in a jury’s hands after weeks of lurid testimony in his sexual misconduct trial. The panel of seven men and five women began deliberating racketeering and sex trafficking charges against the R&B superstar Friday afternoon,…
