Google Pledges $11.5 Million Toward Organizations Fighting for Racial Equality
*Google announced Thursday that its humanitarian arm, Google.org, has pledged a total of $11.5 million toward research …
Review: PBS Film ‘The Talk’ Explores Conversation Black Families Have About Encountering Police
*Tonight, PBS premieres “The Talk: Race in America,” a documentary from director/producer Sam Pollard that examines the …
MLB’s Steve Clevenger Apologizes for Black Lives Matter Tweets That Got Him Suspended
*Former Seattle Mariners player Steve Clevenger is just now apologizing for racist tweets about Black Lives Matter …
Netflix Opens Access to Ava DuVernay’s ‘13th’, Because It’s That Important
*Netflix is granting public screening access to Ava DuVernay’s Oscar-nominated documentary “13th” for classrooms, …
Time: The Kalief Browder Story – Premieres 3/1 on Spike [WATCH]
*Weinstein Television and Shawn “JAY Z” Carter have teamed up with Spike TV for a groundbreaking event series that will …
Influential Black Leaders Showcased in Socially Conscious Photo Series
*Despite the fact that self-perception of black youth has improved over the last few decades, data released by Project …
Film About ‘Jena Six’ to Start Production This Spring in New Orleans
*An indie drama is in the works about the six black high school students in Louisiana who were initially charged …
Release of Ferguson Doc ‘Whose Streets?’ to Coincide With Anniversary of Mike Brown’s Death
*Magnolia Pictures has picked up North American rights to “Whose Streets?, a documentary on the unrest in Ferguson, MO …
Black Television News Channel Announces Agreement With Charter Communications
*(BTNC), Black Television News Channel the nation’s only African American news network, is announcing a multi-year …
‘All Lives Matter’ Supporters Expected To Stay Silent During Trump’s Muslim Ban
*The All Lives Matter collective was birthed to silence the Black Lives Matter movement, so it’s no surprise that the …
New Study: Striving for Wealth is killing Black America, Whites are immune from effects
*A new study covered by the New York Times shows that Black strivers are literally killing themselves prematurely in …
Netflix to Air ‘13TH: A Conversation with Oprah Winfrey & Ava DuVernay’
*One day after Ava DuVernay’s Netflix documentary “13TH” received an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature, the …
Ricky Williams Stopped and Frisked by Texas Cops While Taking A Walk (Watch)
*Former NFL running back and current “Celebrity Apprentice” contestant Ricky Williams says he was …
Joyce Yvette Davis Pens Novel About Nazi Happenings and Black WWII Soldiers
*The Lebensborn Experiment: Book I, by Joyce Yvette Davis , deals with two little-known subjects of the Second World War …
Opinion: Black America Didn’t Do Well Under President Obama
*It is indisputable Barack Obama was the first non-white man to become President of the United States of America. But …
