Author: Tariq
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This year for Juneteenth, Disney will release a new EP about the Black experience featuring actor and activist Yara Shahidi. Shahidi who will deliver an original spoken word track “To Be A Black Girl”. Chloe Bailey of Chloe x Halle will covers Nina Simone’s “Feeling Good.” Rapper YBN Cordae also on the EP is donating […]
The family of Alton Sterling, the 37-year-old Black man, was selling CDs in front of a convenience store in July 2016 when he was shot and killed by two white police officers. Have reached a $4.5m settlement with the Louisiana city. In a statement, lawyers for the family thanked the city and announced that they were […]
Grammy award-winning musician, Golden Globe winning and Academy Award nominated actress Queen Latifah will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement BET Award. Latifah’s her career began in Hollywood where she became the first hip-hop artist to be crowned with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006. Queen Latifah received rave reviews, for her […]
Black Enterprise and Fox Soul are working together to create original programming. The first original series from the new partnership is an Economic Equity and Racial Justice Town Hall. “One Year After George Floyd: Has Corporate America Made Good on its Economic Equity Pledges? It’s now streaming on the service. Justin Barton, Vice President of […]
More Americans are quitting their jobs. But, according to reports the reason people are leaving for better paying jobs. Many companies have boosted pay or offered other incentives to attract workers. The percentage of people quitting their jobs, meanwhile, also rose to a record 2.8% among private-sector workers. That’s a full percentage point higher than a […]
John Legend’s production company, is working on a biopic about the late comedy legend Bernie Mac. Mac started out in Chicago as a stand-up comedy, before becoming one of the biggest comedic stars of film and television in the 2000s, earning two Emmy nominations for his lead performance on “The Bernie Mac Show.”Mac appearing alongside Steve […]
Actor Morgan Freeman and criminal justice Professor Linda Keena at the University of Mississippi are donating $1 million to establish a Center for Evidence-Based Policing and Reform. The center will be the only one of its kind in Mississippi and one of only a few in the nation, the university said in its news release. The […]
University of Utah research shows that black people are affected by violent episodes even if they are not directly involved. The study observed 49 separate incidents of racial violence between 2013 and 2017. 38 incidents in which a black person were killed by police and news coverage of decisions against prosecuting police officers involved in killings. […]
If you thought Madea was done, Think Again! Tyler Perry’s character has grossed over $1 billion at the box office, and is heading to Netflix with a 12th movie. A Madea Homecoming will be dropping 2022. No plot details yet. Perry reportedly said that Madea would be making her final appearance in the 2019 Lionsgate […]
Pharrell Williams plans to open a group of small nonprofit private schools in Virginia. The Grammy-winner said in a press release in which he called out the current state of affairs regarding the school system, according to The Virginian-Pilot. “We don’t want lockstep learning where so many kids fall behind; we want bespoke learning designed for […]