Black America
Fabolous is being accused of punching a bus boy in an Atlanta restaurant and assaulting him with a glass bottle, according to a lawsuit filed in Fulton County court. The lawsuit, filed Monday, claims that Fab, born John Jackson, and another unknown person attack Octavious Butler at a Fox Sports Grill.
California — Black youth and young adults are nearly five times more likely to be killed in California than the average young Californian. The disparity was even wider for black males, who have a homicide rate more than 14 times that of whites and nearly four times that of Hispanics. Those are among the disturbing […]
// Last January, Michael Allison, a 41-year-old mechanic from Bridgeport, Illinois, went to court to protest what he saw as unfair treatment from local police officers.
A Brooklyn nun from a fringe Christian sect has confessed to an unholy lie: telling cops she was sexually attacked and left unconscious in a snowbank, sources said Monday.
New York — A tony Queens enclave once home to a host of black stars – including Jackie Robinson and James Brown – became a historic district Tuesday on the first day of Black History Month.
New York — A nun’s bogus claim that she was choked and raped by a black man has angered – but not surprised – African-American men in her Brooklyn neighborhood. Detectives combed through East Flatbush investigating the “rape” of Sister Mary Turcotte, a member of the rogue Christian sect Apostles of Infinite Love, which has […]
One of the reasons, I think, that America is so obsessed with celebrity isn’t because we worship them, it’s because we’re looking for flaws. We wanna see cellulite on Kim Kardashian’s ass or we wanna hear how lousy a husband Steve Harvey was to his ex-wife just so that we can feel better about ourselves […]
New York — CNN announced Friday morning that Mark Whitaker, who had been serving as the Washington Bureau Chief at NBC news and who was the former editor of Newsweek, is joining CNN in the new role of executive vice president and managing editor of the network.
This past weekend, Nicki Minaj took her talents to Saturday Night Live to perform a few of her hit songs and appear in a couple of skits. As with many SNL skits, it generated controversy and the conversation on Twitter and all over the net after the show was: “Were her skits offensive to Black […]
The Issues4Life Foundation, in partnership with The Radiance Foundation, launches an abortion awareness and pro-adoption themed campaign, entitled “Endangered Species.”
Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Queen Latifah, Shanice Wilson and Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr. were among the luminaries who honored singer Teena Marie at a private memorial service Monday. The two-hour memorial service and Catholic mass was held at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles. Teena, born Mary Christine Brockert, died Dec. 26 at […]
HelloBeautiful’s co-founder Ava DuVernay is a filmmaker and publicist who hopes to spread the distribution of black-themed films with her new organization, the African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement (AFFRM). In March, black film festivals based in New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Seattle and Los Angeles will be the first backers of the movement to collectively get […]