This is so scary and so heartbreaking. Earlier this afternoon, LAPD officers responded to a call about an altercation in downtown L.A. One of the…

Charmayne Maxwell, a member of the 90s group Brownstone, passed away after falling in Denmark on Saturday. The singer (left) was reportedly at a soccer…

More than four years after last meeting in the Oval Office, the President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and President Barack Obama met on Friday at the White House. Predictably, most of the remarks were about the Ebola crisis—which has devastated Liberia and the neighboring countries of Guinea and Sierra Leone with more than 10,000 dead—and […]

Every so often we get a local election that has a huge impact on the outlook and direction of Black America. There are cities that we focus on that count as a microcosm of the rest of our community. There are years that Atlanta and Maynard Jackson represented Black progress in America. Then there were the years […]