Some of our favorite Black stars made the cut this year on Time Magazine's annual TIME 100 World's Most Influential People list.

11-year-old Orion Jean is proving that age certainly is just a number in some instances, particularly when it comes to charity work and giving back to his community in Fort Worth, Texas. As a result, he's recently been given the prestigious honor of being named 'TIME' Magazine's 2021 Kid Of The Year.

TIME Magazine's 2021 Person Of Year had many asking for a recount after it was given to 50-year-old tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, with the real people's champ being Black police officer Eugene Goodman for his courage shown during the Capitol riots back in January.

TIME Magazine recognized the excellence of Simone Biles and all she had to overcome in 2021 by bestowing the Olympic medalist with its prestigious honor as "Athlete Of The Year."

Amanda Gorman discusses the modern-day Black Renaissance with former First Lady Michelle Obama.

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Congrats to Lizzo! On Wednesday, the singer and Grammy nominee was named TIME’s Entertainer of the Year for 2019. https://twitter.com/lizzo/status/1204767261447331842 The announcement comes as TIME rolls out its year-end lists, including naming Person of the Year, Athlete of the Year and more. In her feature interview, the “Truth Hurts” singer discusses her decade long grind to […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Time Magazine is being sold by Meredith Corp. to Marc Benioff, a co-founder of Salesforce, and his wife, it was announced Sunday. Meredith announced that it was selling Time magazine for $190 million in cash to Benioff, one of four co-founders of Salesforce, a cloud computing pioneer. Meredith had completed the purchase […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — Fresh from winning a Pulitzer Prize for helping to expose the Harvey Weinstein scandal, Ronan Farrow was honored as one of this year’s 100 most influential people at the annual Time 100 Gala. Farrow took his story to the New Yorker which published the account after NBC News passed on an […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Time magazine on Wednesday named Donald Trump its Person of the Year, bestowing what the president-elect called an “honor” even as he derided the idea that he’ll lead “the Divided States of America.” That was a reference to Time’s cover line — “Donald Trump: President of the Divided States of America” — […]

Plus, Black doctors call on President Obama to ban menthol cigarettes and the racial wage gap in America is worse now than 40 years ago.

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Photographer Thomas Prior talks about the discipline and precision required to “create a tack-sharp photograph” of U.S. Olympic gymnast Simone Biles for the cover of Time magazine’s new Olympics issue.   Per Time: Inside Biles’ family gym in Houston, Prior tested his lights with a body double so they would freeze the three-time world all-around […]

Time Magazine brought prima ballerina Misty Copeland and President Barack Obama together during Women’s History Month and the results were pretty amazing. The two, who are both biracial and were raised by single mothers, discussed how they were shaped by their histories and their finding a path to acceptance as pioneers in their respective fields. […]