WATCH: Debbie Allen’s Hot Chocolate Nutcracker – China Scene, 2012
December 18, 2021
Breaking News
- LACMA Showcases ‘Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics’ Exhibit
- Sheenway School and Culture Center — Educating Youth to Lead the Future Over 50 Years
- Record-Breaking Hate Crimes Against Black Angelenos on the Rise
- Los Angeles Rams and LAPD Spread Holiday Cheer with Annual Sleigh Ride
- Heather Hutt Sworn-in as Councilwoman for L.A.’s 10th District
- Visit Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza for Holiday Photos with Santa
- Homeless and Their Advocates Speak Out in New Film, ‘WE, the Vulnerable of LA’
- The Congressman Wore Sneakers: An Evening With Hakeem Jeffries
- Brotherhood Crusade Honors SEIU President April Verrett at 2024 Pioneer of African American Achievement Award Dinner
- Dashing & Dazzling Damon Wayans Jr. is Perfect Boyfriend in ‘Shrinking’
- Lakers Guard Max Christie Continues to Step Up
- Chargers Thwart Divisional Foe on Thursday Night
- No. 18 UCLA Men’s Basketball Defeats Prairie View A&M 111-75
Black History Feburary
WATCH: Kwanzaa 2010 Malcolm X College Pt. 8
December 18, 2021
Harris sharply defends Biden in interview with Charlamagne
December 18, 2021
Vice President Kamala Harris got into a testy exchange with media host Charlamagne Tha God Friday, defending President Joe Biden from questions over roadblocks to passage of his social spending package.
WATCH: Crystal Williams, RISD’s next President
December 18, 2021
Rhode Island School of Design’s Board of Trustees is pleased to announce the appointment of Crystal Williams as the institution’s 18th president effective April 1, 2022.
December 18: The 13th Amendment that Outlawed Slavery was Ratified, 1865
December 18, 2021
December 18: The 13th Amendment that Outlawed Slavery was Ratified, 1865
Bell Hooks, Groundbreaking Feminist Thinker, Dies at 69
December 17, 2021
Bell hooks, the groundbreaking author, educator and activist whose explorations of how race, gender, economics and politics intertwined helped shape academic and popular debates over the past 40 years, has died. She was 69.
Women Breaking through to Top Roles in Black Churches
December 17, 2021
When an opening for bishop arose in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in 2010, Teresa Jefferson-Snorton looked around to see if any women were offering to be candidates.
December 17: Noted Athlete Henry Aaron Received Spingarn Medal, 1975
December 17, 2021
December 17: Noted Athlete Henry Aaron Received Spingarn Medal, 1975
Chauvin pleads guilty to federal charge in Floyd’s death
December 16, 2021
Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal charge of violating George Floyd’s civil rights, averting a trial but likely extending the time he is already spending behind bars on a state conviction.
December 16: Feminist Author Barbara Smith was born,
December 16, 2021
December 16: Feminist Author Barbara Smith was born,
Kwanzaa’s Meaning in the Midst of Pandemic:
December 16, 2021
Each year at Kwanzaa we celebrate the good in and of the world. We celebrate the good of family, community and culture; the good hoped for and harvested, achieved and enjoyed, worked for, witnessed and brought to fruition.
Reparations Rising with Robin Rue Simmons
December 16, 2021
The Honorable John Conyers, who represented Detroit in Congress from 1965 until 2017, introduced HR 40 every congressional session from 1989. He worked to get cosponsors for the legislation for nearly thirty years, but not even the entire Congressional Black Caucus would cosponsor.
December 15: “Do the Funky Chicken” Artist Rufus Thomas dies, 2001
December 15, 2021
December 15: “Do the Funky Chicken” Artist Rufus Thomas dies, 2001
December 14: After the Death of His Wife and Himself, George Washington Released the Slaves that Served him
December 14, 2021
December 14: After the Death of His Wife and Himself, George Washington Released the Slaves that Served him
Pharrell to college grads: ‘We are the emerging majority’
December 13, 2021
Grammy-winning musician Pharrell Williams on Saturday told the newest graduates of a historically Black university in Virginia to act like “the emerging majority” and help develop the area’s businesses and culture.