Barack Obama gave the commencement speech to the 2016 graduating class of Howard University earlier this week, and was widely received with acclaim. Graduates, attendees and those watching live via streaming sites were uplifted and grateful for the president’s speech, which people said was very paternal and honest. Sign Up For Our Newsletter! Jeff Johnson goes […]
Thousands of Black women gathered in Newark, N.J. last weekend to celebrate their beauty and Blackness for this year's BET Black Girls Rock award show.
VMA producers announced that they knew nothing about the epic speech that Kanye gave during the awards show. They stated that he changed his mind so many times over the course of the show. He was supposed to perform a 2-song medley after accepting his award. Although knowing West, and his indecisive ways, they had […]
It seems like Kanye West was on something really strong last night at the 2015 VMA Award Show! We know that he admitted being on something, but how strong was it exactly?? At the end of his bizarre, long winded speech, he stated that he will be running for president in 2020. So who do […]
According to News 12 Director Spike Lee‘s parents’ Fort Greene brownstone was vandalized along with another neighbor’s home less than a week after Lee took…
Oscar winner Jaime Foxx has transformed himself from the comedian that everyone loved for dressing in drag to a serious actor with a social…
As first reported NewsOne.com… As much of a picture of beauty and sophistication Michelle Obama is, she will let you know when she isn’t to…
Sojourner Truth’s (pictured) extraordinary journey from slave to abolitionist and women’s right activist was captured most pointedly during a speech she delivered at the Ohio…
Ebony Steele has more deep thoughts in Ain’t Nobody Sayin’ Nuthin’, and she wonders why we should have to pay cell phone bills in the United States if we have freedom of speech. That’s not the only deep thought from Ebony Steele this week, so listen to more thoughtful comments in the audio player below! […]
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of […]
