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How did people who were enslaved, forced into unpaid manual labor and built this country end up being considered lazy? This is the history of the damaging and racist notion that is easily debunked.

The Nigerian Afrobeats star is attempting to clear up controversial statements.

The upcoming Oxford African American Dictionary has words like "bussin," does the upcoming reference book truly honor Black culture or just appropriate it?

As MTV News shuts down after 36 years, we remember 10 defining moments where it helped to progress Black pop culture.

Hulu's upcoming doc on the infamous "Black spring break" known as Freaknik has many recalling the event's taboo history of sexual assault.

Television

Iconic sitcom "A Different World," which turns 35 this year, has had a lasting influence on HBCUs.

Good News

New Jersey’s Black Heritage Trail will amplify the Black history that exists in the Garden State.

Good News

The Getty Research Institute and the National Museum of African American History and Culture have acquired the Jet and Ebony photo archive.

Kudos to the show took the art of Black storytelling to another level.

Education

City schools Chancellor Meisha Ross-Porter introduced the new Black studies curriculum Wednesday at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Manhattan.

Wednesday's ceremony again proved that Black people are the culture, the movement and the soul of America.