Category: National News
Prayers Up! Tamar Braxton Rushed To The Hospital After Possible Suicide Attempt
Fans of Grammy-nominated singer and reality show star Tamar Braxton have taken to social media with prayers and words of encouragement after news came out that she has been hospitalized Thursday evening after police responded to a report of a possible overdose and suicide attempt. The call alerted police to rush to a residence in…
Change is a movement and a Process
June 19th, 2020- Assemblymember Dr. Shirley Weber, Chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus One thing is clear this Juneteenth: change cannot wait. Today, not only do we commemorate Black liberation from slavery, we also commemorate victims of police brutality and the lives lost at their hands. Our nation is witnessing an uprising of righteous self-expression onto our streets, onto our newsfeeds,…
CNN reporter and crew arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protest
By Kim Bellware May 29, 2020 at 4:54 a.m. PDT CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez and his camera crew were arrested on air just after 5 a.m. Friday as the team reported on the Minneapolis protests. A Minnesota State Patrol officer said they were arrested because they were told to move and didn’t, according to CNN. Jimenez is seen and…
‘Being Black In America Should Not Be A Death Sentence’: Officials Respond To George Floyd’s Death
May 26, 2020 at 1:30 pm MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — His name was George Floyd. He can be seen on a video Darnella Frazier posted to Facebook, shouting “Please, please, please I can’t breathe,” as a Minneapolis police officer held him down for minutes, with his knee on Floyd’s neck. Shortly thereafter, he was dead. The scene of…
Passing of NOBLE Founding Member Mitchell Ware
The National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) extends heartfelt condolences to the family of Judge Mitchell Ware, who passed away April 19, 2020 of natural causes. NOBLE Founder Ware was a trailblazer in the policing profession serving as one of Illinois’ first black state troopers. He would go on to earn a law…
Georgia Man Ahmaud Arbery, Shot and Killed — Jogging While Black
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Add jogging while Black to the ever-growing list of reasons African Americans continue to be shot down senselessly by armed White men, supposedly under the color of law. Twenty-five-year-old Georgia resident Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed while jogging after a former police officer and his…
Your Response Can Shape Your Future
The 2020 Census is well underway. The massive undertaking of counting everyone living in the United States and five U.S. territories requires everyone’s participation. Over 75 million households have responded already. If your household has not responded, now is the time. Even if you received a paper questionnaire in the mail, you can still respond…
5 Confirmed Cases of African Americans Who Died from Coronavirus
Nationwide — Many from urban communities initially believed that Black people were immune to the coronavirus. This was obviously false information, partly due to the media’s bias in their reporting. Not only can Black people contract the COVID-19 virus, but many are also dying from it. Many have died already, but here are just five…
Update: Tyler Perry’s Nephew Dies By Suicide
Writer, producer, actor and director Tyler Perry knows how to create drama on screen, but the talented Perry’s own personal life has had some heartbreaking twists and turns of its own. In fact, Perry hired pathologist Michael Baden to perform a second autopsy on his nephew, Gavin Porter, who died in a Louisiana prison this…
NAACP Issues Statement on the Injustice and Lack of Evidence in the Myon Burrell Case
The NAACP issued the following statement regarding the case against Myon Burrell. As a teenager in 2003, he was accused and convicted of the killing of 11-year-old Tyesha Edwards in Minnesota. In a recent story, the Associated Press uncovered a lack of evidence in his conviction. The recent public revelation of new evidence and inconsistencies…
Kobe Bryant: A Champion Of Giving Off The Court
Remembering those we lost “If a man dies, can he live again? I will wait all the days of my compulsory service.. Until my relief comes…”Job 14:14 Kobe Bryant was 41 years old and in the prime of his life when he died yesterday. But his legacy lives on–and we’re not talking about his basketball…
Restaurant Waitress “Blessed” With $1,200 Tip From Happy Customers
Dublin, GA — Janet Ballard, a 53-year old mother of two who works as a restaurant waitress in Georgia, says she was recently “blessed” by a group of 12 generous customers who left her a $1,200 tip for her good service. Thankful for the blessing, she decided to also pay it forward. Ballard has been…
As Opioid Crisis Hits Home, Black Media Outlets Step Up to Get Word Out
By the late 1970s, drug traffickers were shipping so much cocaine to the United States that the street price of the powdered stimulant dealers cook to make crack – the smokable rock form of the stimulant – dropped by nearly 80 percent, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). Some historians believe that new affordability…
Chicago Rapper Juice WRLD Dead At 21
21-year-old rising Chicago rapper Juice WRLD was pronounced dead this morning, Sunday, December 9, 2019, after experiencing a medical emergency at Chicago’s Midway International Airport. Juice WRLD, born Jarad Anthony Higgins and known for topping the album charts this year with his acclaimed work Death Race for Love, was rushed to a nearby hospital where…
#RolandMartinUnfiltered Is a Black News Platform With The Largest Audience In America
Nation’s Only Black Digital Show Focuses on News & an Analysis of Politics, Sports & Culture Washington, D.C. – (November 29, 2019) — Roland Martin reaches more African Americans each day with news and information using his streaming platform than anyone else in the U.S. Martin, a veteran broadcast journalist who celebrated the one-year-anniversary of…
Inferno in the rainforest
Sensors on NASA satellites Terra and Aqua captured a record of thousands of points of fire in Brazil in late August. The fires pose a threat to the Amazon rainforest and to people living in and around it. (Image: NASA Earth Observatory) Rampant fires in the Amazon present an ecological, international crisis. Scientists from the…
Single Black Seniors Network Coming to a City Near You
Nationwide (BlackNews.com) — Single Black Seniors Network (SBSN) is proud to announce that it is expanding their network beyond the Chicagoland region. SBSN is a socialization network of like-minded seniors who come together to interact and enjoy planned activities. Since its launch in 2016, Single Black Seniors Network has over 400 registered networkers, has connected…
U.S. Black-Owned Law Firm Expands Its Practice to Africa
Representing Persons Before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Tanzania Nationwide — The Law Office of Zulu Ali (ZuluAliLaw.com), a Black-owned law firm based in Riverside, California, has announced that it has expanded its practice to Africa representing Persons before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Tanzania. The African…
Respected Scholar Explains How Immigration Harms Native Blacks
Nationwide (BlackNews.com) — Dr. Claud Anderson, best-selling author and President of The Harvest Institute, says, “Whether it is building a wall or open admission of immigrants, the partisan debate on immigration shut down the federal government and furloughed hundreds of thousands of employee, but has ignored a core issue: the effects of immigration on Native…
Black Father Fights For Paternal Rights To Prevent The International Abduction Of His Daughter
Brevard County, FL (BlackNews.com) — Christopher Baylor is a family man. A black American male raised in a two-parent Christian home, he had every intention of continuing in this tradition with his own family and children. Like many, he was seeking a soulmate, looking to raise children and spend the rest of his life with…
NAACP Calls Mississippi Candidate Hyde-Smith’s Hanging Comments “Sick”
BALTIMORE— The NAACP issued the following statement regarding Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith recent statement on being invited to a public hanging. “Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith’s shameful remarks prove once again how Trump has created a social and political climate that normalizes hateful and racist rhetoric. We’ve seen this in Florida from Ron DeSantis and others during…
“The View” Co-Host Has Been Announced
Ana Navarro will co-host The View every Friday. She is a Republican, but has expressed opposition about Donald Trump. Many fans on Twitter shared their excitement over her joining the show. Ana Navarro announced she will be joining The Viewas a co-host every Friday, and people from both sides of the political spectrum are welcoming…
Ohio Judge Resigns After Video Shows His Hands Around Black Woman’s Neck
Hamilton, OH — Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Magistrate Michael Bachman has stepped down from his post to avoid “further consternation” after a video of him chasing down and grabbing a Black woman by her neck went public. The judge claims he was only trying to calm the woman who was “loudly screaming” in the…
Dying Man Wins $289 Million Lawsuit After Getting Terminal Cancer From Roundup Weedkiller
San Francisco, CA — DeWayne Johnson, a former groundskeeper who is now terminally ill, recently won $289 million after jurors concluded that his cancer was caused by Monsanto’s popular weedkiller Roundup and that the company hid the product’s health hazards. The remarkable verdict could set a precedent for several other cases against the company. US…
Facebook Is Right to Not Censor Holocaust Denial
Mark Zuckerberg made several newsworthy choices this week. One — to invoke Holocaust denial as an example of content that Facebook should keep up because “there are different things that different people get wrong” and “it’s hard to impugn [their] intent” — was ill-advised. But another — to keep Facebook from diving deeper into the…
