In a rare move for Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour, Beyonce was given complete control over her cover shoot for the September issue, and has thus helped to make history at the magazine. Tyler Mitchell, a 23-year-old artist from Atlanta, will be the first black photographer to shoot a cover for Vogue in the magazine’s 126-year history, Yashar Ali reported for […]
Brandy's classic catalog is still breaking records.
30-year-old Mareena Robinson Snowden walked across the commencement stage at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on June 8 and became the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the university. “Grateful for every part of this experience — highs and lows,” she wrote on Instagram. “Every person who supported me and those […]
(Via Black News) – 28-year-old Jade Colin from New Orleans has made history as the youngest Black woman to ever become a McDonald’s franchise owner. While in college, she started her career as an employee working the night shift at a local McDonald’s, and after years of earning promotions and awards, she decided to purchase her […]
The world has lost a living legend in Tuskegee Airman Floyd Carter Sr. who died at the age of 95. VOA News reports that Carter received many awards for his service in the Airforce and for the ground he broke being a Black man in the Airforce at a time when African-Americans weren’t wanted. After his days […]
Most everyone knows of Rosa Parks and her role in the fight for equality when she refused to get up from her seat to give it to a white man. Parks became the symbol that sparked the movement, but people don’t know that Parks was just the face and not the one who started it […]
In a “Stay Woke” kind of way, one Chicago kid has newfound fame after he corrected his teacher for ‘telling lies’ about who discovered America. The teacher espouses it was Christopher Columbus. The kid quotes his mom, (and Jay Z), who saya, “the only Christopher we acknowledge is Wallace.” Apparently little dude didn’t set out […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House chief of staff John Kelly says Confederate General Robert E. Lee was “an honorable man” and applying current thinking on social issues to figures in history is “very, very dangerous.” Kelly also said in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham that aired Monday night that the removal of […]
What’s a good way to learn about African-American history facts? Well, historian, filmmaker, and teacher Dr.Henry Louis Gates Jr. has just the thing! 100 Amazing Facts About The Negro, is a book written by Gates that’s filled to the brim with all kinds of facts. Gates calls the book an “homage” to Joel Augustus Rogers’ 100 Amazing […]
First, it was Missy Elliot, whose hometown of Portsmouth, VA had a petition signed by over 24,000 people to replace a Confederate statue. This came out of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. White supremacist and neo-Nazis met around the statue of Robert E. Lee on the University of Virginia campus. They were protesting […]
Kevin Hart tries to convince his daughter that there’s more to black history than slavery and oppression in a new special for the History Channel. The comedian will star in and executive produce “Kevin Hart Presents: The Black Man’s Guide to History,” a two-hour special from Hartbeat Productions and Comedy Dynamics in which Kevin teaches […]
Michael Jordan is trying to make up for the years people said he's done nothing for the African-American community.
