All Blog Posts Tagged 'black' (654)

A Black female banker is coming forward after she was forced to spend over a week in a psychiatric ward — all because police officers didn’t believe she was the owner of a BMW.

In an investigative report by New York’s Pix11, Kamilah Brock says the incident began when she was driving through Harlem on Sept. 12, 2014. While stopped at a traffic…

    Hispanic and black students in Georgia and throughout the U.S. are more often required to wear school uniforms than white students. Across the metro Atlanta region, about half of black students and one of every four Hispanic students wear uniforms, while about one of every 20 white students do, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found. That means…

Rick Ross's latest project, Black Dollar, is now available to stream and download via Datpiff for free. The project includes appearances from The Dream, Gucci Mane, Meek Mill, Wale, Future, August Alsina and more, and is the first full-length project the MMG boss has released since he dropped two albums in 2014.…

The September issue of Vogue is the fashion magazine’s biggest of the year. It is available this morning. They’ve placed an African-American icon on the cover.

Congratulations, Beyoncé. The headline reads, “Just B: Beyoncé and the Art of Global…

A young Mississippi couple who are charged with attempting to join the Islamic State were ordered held without bail Tuesday, pending federal grand jury action on the charges.

Twenty-year-old Jaelyn Delshaun Young and 22-year-old Muhammad "Mo" Dakhlalla,…

New Edition will be getting the bio-pic treatment on a BET mini-series.

The network just announced plans to produce its first music-focused scripted movie, telling the tale of the '80s group over the course of three nights.

Group members Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, Ronnie DeVoe, Johnny Gill and Ralph Trevsant have signed on to…

Last night (Tuesday) another predominantly Black church was burned here in the South.

Mount Zion A.M.E. Church was found to be burning in Greeleyville, S.C. This is the same church that was burned down by the KKK over 20 years ago. Unfortunately the church was gutted, as it took over two hours to…

Six fires at predominately African-American churches in several states are in the spotlight.

News that federal investigators are investigating the fires -- for signs of arson or hate crimes -- has been making waves on social media, where the question is posed with a hashtag:…

Dylann Storm Roof has been captured. He is the man that is said to have opened fire during a prayer meeting inside a historic black church in downtown Charleston on last night, killing nine people, including the pastor, in an assault authorities described as a hate crime.

Witnesses say that Roof came into the church during bible study and stayed for about 1…

Less than 24 hours after stepping down from her position as the president of the Spokane, Washington chapter of the NAACP, Rachel Dolezal was on the Today show this morning to speak out about the firestorm she's endured and explain her racial identity.

Today host Matt Lauer asked her flat out if she is black and she responded that her racial identity…

TEASE: Who would play Rachel Dolezal in her Lifetime movie?

Last week, Rachel Dolezal was exposed as being a fraud. This week, Hollywood producers are eager to secure the rights to her story and make it into a movie.

Dolezal is the leader of the Spokane, Washington chapter of the NAACP. Though she identifies as a black woman, in…

While Common was previously pegged to play Black Mantra in the upcoming Suicide Squad movie, it now seems Lonnie will be taking on the role of The Tattooed Man — the arch-enemy of the Green Lantern. (TMZ)

Dame Dash and Flavor of Love…

Locate shot glass. Insert lips. And suck. (DO NOT ACTUALLY DO THIS)

Congratulations: Against some medical advice and all reason, you have just taken the Kylie Jenner Challenge — artificially plumping…

Business as usual. Newly elected mayor will wait to address the loss of police personnel in the city of Parma pic.twitter.com/OU9OmKWQzX

Most of the police force and several officials resigned after the small…

Tyrese is getting something off his chest on his new album Black Rose. Talking about his new song "Dumb [Ish]" with Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa, the singer confessed, "I was in a relationship for five years and I got caught cheating and doing some dumb [stuff] so the song is real."

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Crowds of protesters gathered on the University of Virginia campus again yesterday calling for justice in the bloody arrest of black student Martese Johnson outside of a bar.

A criminal investigation has been opened into the details of the arrest and the amount of force…

The arrest of a black student at the University of Virginia has sparked outrage on the campus and the university has opened an investigation into what happened. 20-year-old third-year student Martese Johnson was arrested by Alcoholic Beverage Control officers early Wednesday morning outside a bar that he was denied access to because he's…

According to a new report published by Nielsen, African-American TV viewers have the juice when it comes to influencing networks' programming and advertising.

Black viewers carry so much weight due to the amount of TV watched -- 37 percent more than other…

Here's what was trending last night:

1. Empire

Empire discussion ran Twitter Wednesday night, at one point owning 13 of 15 trending topics. 

What people are saying:

• "I gotta find a broad that don't watch Empire so I can sing that song 'You're So Beautiful' and act like it came off the…