The family of a Black North Carolina student who exposed a racist student group chat is calling for those involved to be punished. Cenayia Edwards, 14, uncovered racist threats Sept. 26 in a chat involving two students at her East Wake High School in Wendell, […]
Fela Kuti was a pioneer of the Afrobeat musical movement whose intense and pointed lyrics made him a target of the Nigerian government. The late musician was born October 15, 1938. Kuti was born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti to a minister father and activist […]
According to reports, the actress has nabbed the role of Catwoman in Matt Reeves’upcoming film The Batman. Twilight star, Robert Pattinson, has already signed on to portray the Dark Knight in the Warner Bros. flick that is set to begin filming in January. According […]
Decades ago, Samuel Smith — a carpenter who helped recover bodies after the Titanic wreck in 1912 — collected some wood from the debris and made a wooden cross to honor the passengers who died when the ship hit an iceberg. Smith’s family kept […]
*On November 5, BMG Books will publish Goin’ Off: The Story of the Juice Crew & Cold Chillin’ Records by Ben Merlis. The book, which is part of the RPM Series that focuses on record labels, is part narrative and part oral history, assembled from […]
Back in mid-2018, a Black Culture research center had found something very shocking when they had won the bid to the 25-page missing chapter from Malcolm X’s autobiography. Another part of the transaction was the completed hand-written manuscript by the controversial leader himself along […]
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