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Professor Belton & Company Ignites Audiences with New Single “God’s Anointed” featuring Jeremiah Hicks

Washington, DC — One of today’s most gifted music ministers from the Nation’s Capitol bolts into 2020 with his first release in 7 years. Reclaiming his call to the sacred stage with uplifting and rousing sounds of praise with a new contemporary choir, Professor Belton & Company release “God’s Anointed” featuring Jeremiah Hicks. A native […]

Attorney Faith Fox Celebrates Black History Month as Newly Appointed Managing Partner for The Cochran Firm in North Carolina

Charlotte, NC – When Attorney Faith Fox opened her private practice, The Law Office of Faith Fox PLLC, just a few years ago, her mission was one of dedicated service. Per her own personal ordeal in family court without proper legal representation, she was deeply impacted by an overwhelming feeling of helplessness and wanted to […]

BET Networks Announces Social Impact Campaign, #ReclaimYourVote, in Partnership With the National Urban League

LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, at META:2020, BET Networks announced #ReclaimYourVote, a social change campaign in partnership with the National Urban League and key national organizations committed to harnessing Black collective power and increasing Black participation in the 2020 Census and the 2020 Election. “We couldn’t be more excited to launch this campaign with Tip ‘T.I.’ Harris, […]

The Bernie Bamboozle – The Gant Report

By Lucius Gantt – No disrespect to Independent Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders but I disagree with his suggestion that all “billionaires” are basically alike and that wealthy, qualified Americans should not be allowed to participate in Presidential elections. I say political candidate money doesn’t care who contributes it, doesn’t care who receives it and […]

Detractor-in-Chief Overstates Economic Progress

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux – Donald John Trump has been impeached, and to let him tell it, that isn’t bothering him, and we’d believe him if he hadn’t posted more than tweets in just one day. But his persistent overuse of the word “hoax,” both to refer to impeachment and to anything else he doesn’t […]

Producer Will Packer Presents “The Photograph” Starring Issa Rae and LaKeith Stanfield

On Valentine’s Day, Issa Rae (HBO’s Insecure, Little) and LaKeith Stanfield (FX’s Atlanta, Sorry to Bother You) connect in a romance where a woman must learn from the secrets in her mother’s past if she is to move forward and allow herself to love and be loved. When famed photographer Christina Eames unexpectedly dies, she […]

The T.D. Jakes Foundation Launches STEAM Think Tank With Roundtable Discussion

NEW YORK – The T.D. Jakes Foundation, a global nonprofit that focuses on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) education, workforce preparedness and job training to create greater diversity and inclusion, and gender equity, in traditionally underrepresented fields, recently hosted its first roundtable, inviting business and educational leaders to take part in a lively […]

#BloombergIsARacist Trends the Same Week the Billionaire Spends 3.5 Million With Black Media

By Edrea Davis – Just when I was beginning to consider Mike Bloomberg seriously as an option if Vice President Joe Biden flunks, #BloombergIsRacist began trending on social media linking to very questionable audio of Bloomberg defending his stop and frisk policies. Later in the day I received an article about the presidential candidate doing […]

Statement by President Donnell Williams on Upward Trend of Black Homeownership Rate

Washington, DC- The National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) is guardedly optimistic regarding the current upward trend of the Black homeownership rate of 44% as stated by the U.S. Census Bureau in its 4th quarter 2019 report. The reported rate represents a second in a row increase up from the 3rd quarter rate of […]