Erika Alexander (‘Living Single’) on What White Folks Owe Black Folks and Being Newly Single / VIDEO
*In the latest Spotlight interview, the beautiful woke Erika Alexander dishes the dirt on the racism she encountered …
GOP Senators Try and Fail to Rattle Stacey Abrams During Senate Hearing on Voting Rights (Highlights)
*While the world was watching Derek Chauvin being hauled to jail in handcuffs Tuesday, Stacey Abrams was quietly, …
Harriet Tubman’s Family Home Found: Archaeologists Have Been Digging Since Last Fall (Video)
*Maryland archaeologists have been combing through the woods in Dorchester County, Maryland since last fall looking for …
New Film Stresses Importance of Identifying Unmarked Graves of Enslaved People (Trailer)
*A passion to uncover family history is in the blood for Chris Haley. The actor, writer, filmmaker and director of the …
Eleven Days After the Assassination of MLK, Aretha Franklin Records ‘Think’ [EUR Video Throwback]
*Her voice was as bold and thunderous as her civil rights support quiet and discreet. Jesse Jackson wrote of Aretha …
Veteran Actress Margaret Avery Talks Longevity, Sustainability and Remembers Cicely Tyson / WATCH
*Appearing on “Laugh-In” (1967), “Which Way Is Up?” (1977), “The Color Purple” …
April 5, 1968: That Time James Brown ‘Saved’ Boston [EUR Video Throwback]
James Brown already had a concert scheduled at Boston Garden on April 5, 1968, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was …
Two Black Women Served As Head Coaches in Same Final Four for 1st Time (Video)
*Black history was made Friday night (April 2) at the 2021 NCAA women’s tournament in San Antonio. For the first time in …
Car Parade Held for Tuskegee Airman William Fauntroy Jr.’s 95th B’Day (Watch)
*One of the original Tuskegee Airmen turned 95 in style Sunday with a car parade befitting his trailblazing service to …
Raise A Fist: Pelosi Appoints Maj. Gen. William Walker as House’s First Black Sergeant-At-Arms (Video)
*House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tapped the commanding general of the District of Columbia National Guard to be the …
‘Twenty Pearls’: Alpha Kappa Alpha Documentary Celebrates Impact of Black College Women (Trailer)
*Filmmaker Deborah Riley Draper tells the complex story of the nation’s first Black Greek Letter sorority in …
Raise A Fist: Kim Janey Becomes 1st Woman and Person of Color to be Boston Mayor (Watch)
*History is being made on two fronts in Boston, as Kim Janey becomes the city’s first woman and first person of …
Fisk Jubilee Singers Win First Grammy Award in 150 Year History (Watch Acceptance Speech)
*The Fisk Jubilee Singers, founded at the HBCU 150 years ago and instrumental in preserving America’s treasured …
Uncle Nearest Whiskey, Named for Slave Who Mentored Jack Daniel, Now the Best-Selling Black-Owned Spirit of All Time (Video)
*A Tennessee whiskey named after the former slave who mentored Jack Daniel is now the best-selling minority owned and …
‘It Didn’t Really Hit Me Until Just Now’: Maia Chaka Named First Black Woman NFL Referee (Watch)
*The NFL has hired Maia Chaka as a game official for the 2021 season, making her the first Black woman to join the …
