Halle Bailey, half of the sister duo Chloe x Halle, will next be going under the sea, starring as Ariel in the upcoming adaptation of “The Little Mermaid.” The live-action version will include original songs from the 1989 animated hit as well as new tunes from original composer Alan Menken and “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda. […]
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Umontuen: #Election2020 | Being ‘black enough’ is not Kamala’s number one issue
“Kamala Harris is *not* an American Black. She is half Indian and half Jamaican. I’m so sick of people robbing American Blacks (like myself) of our history. It’s disgusting. Now using it for debate time at #DemDebate2? These are my people not her people. Freaking disgusting.” Those words tweeted by African-American, far-right leaning conspiracy theorist […]
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Supreme Court Shoots Down Trump’s Census Citizenship Question
The U.S. Supreme Court’s sharp rebuke of the Trump Administration’s rationale for wanting the citizenship question in the 2020 census means the question is an artifact of the past, according to Southern Methodist University Professor Lolita Buckner Inniss. “Though ultimately the Trump administration may prevail in having the citizenship question added, the Trump administration has to adequately […]
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#Election2020 – Fiery Democratic debate: Race, age, health care and Trump
MIAMI (AP) — Democratic divisions over race, age and ideology surged into public view in Thursday night’s presidential debate, a prime-time clash punctuated by a heated exchange between former Vice President Joe Biden and California Sen. Kamala Harris. It was one of several moments that left the 76-year-old Biden, who entered the night as his […]
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Making Atlanta Affordable: Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms shares city’s first ever affordable housing action plan
In a press conference and groundbreaking ceremony in the Adamsville community of southwest Atlanta on Monday, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms released the City of Atlanta’s Housing Affordability Action Plan – the first ever such document to address the City’s supply of housing in the City of Atlanta for a full spectrum of its residents. Flanked […]
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Spelman College receives Walmart Foundation reaccreditation grant
Spelman College, a UNCF member institution, has received a $20,000 Reaffirmation Readiness Review grant from the Walmart Foundation to help greatly enhance its educational quality and effectiveness. The mini-grant supports Spelman meeting its accreditation criteria per the standards set by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, the regional body for the […]
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#Election2020: Democrats rail against economy-for-the-rich in first debate
MIAMI (AP) — Ten Democrats railed against a national economy and Republican administration they said exist only for the rich as presidential candidates debated onstage for the first time in the young 2020 season, embracing class warfare as a defining theme in their fight to deny President Donald Trump a second term in office. Health […]
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#Election2020 – Bernie Sanders sole candidate to address the Black Press at NNPA national convention
Every major newspaper and news organization in the country has labeled the Black vote crucial to success in the 2020 presidential election, and statistics show that African Americans are 60% more likely to utilize and trust print-related resources for information than the general public. However, of the 24 candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for president, […]
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Exceptional director, B. Monet, rides into history with Cadillac
You can call Brittany Fennell by her given name, her last name or by the moniker that has driven her to fame, “B. Monet.” However, the award-winning writer and director from Silver Spring, Maryland, who holds degrees from Spelman and New York University, will go down in history as the first African American woman to […]
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#ELECTION2020: First Democratic debate of the 2020 race features almost no questions on the Black agenda
The first presidential debate for the 2020 campaign in the race for the White House featured five moderators, ten candidates, two hours and only one question on the voting block that comprises the base vote for the Democratic party: African American voters. The one question came an hour and thirty minutes into the debate […]
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Bernie Sanders presents trillion-dollar plan addressing US student debt crisis
With nearly 45 million people in the US accumulating student loan debt, equal to a staggering $1.5 trillion dollars, second-time presidential candidate and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has developed a plan to erase it all. On Monday, the 77-year-old senator proposed a plan, revised from his original plan laid out during his 2016 presidential campaign, […]
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Motorized scooters debate rages on in Atlanta
Have you ever ridden a Bird? Or maybe a Lime or Relay Bike? Well, these new forms of dockless motorized transportation popped up in Atlanta without warning in Spring 2018 and haven’t slowed down since. Dockless motorized scooters, like those manufactured by Lime and Bird, have served as a relief to the complex transportation network […]
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Ebony, Jet fire remainder of staff, may close its doors for good
It’s official, Ebony Magazine—along with its sister publication Jet Magazine—has potentially closed its doors for good. Former employees of the company took to Twitter last week using the hashtag #EbonyOwes to air out their frustrations with the company, as it has fired all of its employees with little to no notice. According to USA Today, […]
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Ava Duvernay’s ‘When They See Us’ viewed on 23 million accounts, Netflix confirms
Ava DuVernay’s compelling Netflix dramatization “When They See Us” has been viewed by more than 23 million accounts on the streaming platform, she announced on Twitter. The chilling story of five Black and Latino boys, who were coerced into confessing to a brutal rape inside New York’s Central Park has been a hard-hitting reality check […]
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Border official resigns amid uproar over migrant children
The acting head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection resigned Tuesday amid an uproar over the discovery of migrant children being held in pitiful conditions at one of the agency’s stations in Texas. Acting Commissioner John Sanders’ departure deepened the sense of crisis and added to the rapid turnover inside the agencies responsible for enforcing […]