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In an effort to uplift Black storytellers, Queen & Slim director Melina Matoukas is teaming up with Howard University. According to Deadline, the new team is launching an Instagram x Share Black Stories Reels Challenge. Matsukas gave a statement, saying: “Having the ability to create in these spaces and have hundreds of thousands, or millions […]

Michelle Obama’s best-selling memoir “Becoming” will be released in a new edition of the book for young readers. The new edition is adapted for children ages 10 and older. It will include a special introduction for kids written by Michelle Obama as well as three full-color photo inserts, according to the book’s website. New paperback […]

When I was in school, I would always get tired of only being told about the enslavement of Black people. It seemed like educators knew nothing else about Black people except slavery and Martin Luther King Jr. I feel like we had to learn about him every year and they still never got the story […]

National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman has become a best selling author after her incredible performance at the inauguration. The 22 year-old Harvard Grad’s poetry books have become best sellers on Amazon, months before they’re even available. Only hours after she read her original poem, “The Hill We Climb,” on Inauguration Day, Gorman tweeted: “I […]

It’s been an entire year since the tragic death of Kobe Bryant on Jan 26, 2020. The basketball legend inspired countless artists to pay tribute in the form of paintings, sculpture and murals. From LA to Paris, artists who appreciated Kobe and his career began painting murals all over the world. To mark the one […]

Tyler Perry’s Sistas is coming back to BET for a third season. The news comes ahead of Sistas’ midseason premiere on Jan. 27. Production on season 3 is slated to start at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta at the end of the month, six months after the show’s second season wrapped at the studio. Sistas is […]

Morgan Freeman will have a 12 videos series playing hourly on Freeman’s Instagram page to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr Day. Starting at 8am eastern time, each video recalls Dr. King’s words. Freeman narrates each video, which unfold with the backdrop of monuments from Capitol Hill to the Edmund Pettis Bridge. The place where Dr. King […]

The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel star Raven Goodwin, will play Hattie McDaniel. McDaniel was the First Black Person to ever win an Oscar. The film entitled “Behind the Smile” will be a biopic produced by Jami McCoy-Lankford, with the script written by Gregory Blair. Raven Goodwin, 28, has been acting since the age of […]

Bianca Smith is first Black woman coach in professional baseball history. The Red Sox announced the news this week. The 29 year old Smith will be based in the team’s player development complex in Fort Meyers, Florida. She told MLB Network “still wrapping her head around” the opportunity. Bianca Smith played softball at Dartmouth College, previously served an […]

In a new interview with TMRW, The Weeknd talked about what fans can expect from his next album. While the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has delayed The Weeknd’s planned After Hours Tour until summer 2021, the Canadian singer has spent the time he would’ve been on tour hard at work on his next body of work, […]