Photo: Special to the NY Beacon By Bobby Childs In the month of October, a few things are expected. The leaves begin to fall from trees, a slight chill enters the air, and the NBA starts their season. The New York Knicks will be starting their 75th year […]
Rap superstar to revisit 2018 incident when she allegedly threw a bottle at two sister bartenders at a strip club in Flushing, New York. Rap star Cardi B has a hearing Monday in an assault case stemming from a 2018 incident at a New York strip club […]
Iyanla Vanzant is fresh off the heels of ending her hit reality series “Iyanla Fix My Life” and sharing how the pain she experienced in life motivated her to help others heal from life’s difficulties. Speaking with Hoda Kotb on her “Making Space” podcast, Vanzant opened up about the loss […]
School board members in Virginia Beach are attempting to ban the literary works of the late great novelist Toni Morrison. School board members Victoria Manning and Laura Hughes have banned together to have four books removed from curriculums due to the “pornographic nature” found in the reading, The Daily Beast . Morrison’s classic The Bluest […]
Sage Steele is facing consequences after making controversial comments about former President Barack Obama and covid vaccine mandate last week on the podcast “Uncut with Jay Cutler.” The “SportCenter” host is being taken off air for a week after criticizing Obama for identifying as Black on his U.S. […]
By Audrey J. Bernard Monday night, September 27, 2021, will go down in infamy as in The Metropolitan Opera’s 138-year history that a Black composer debut an opera about Black people. The multiple Grammy-winning musician and composer Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up In My Bones” […]
Netflix recently unveiled its trailer for its upcoming western film “The Harder They Fall.” The movie is based on real historical outlaws and cowboys and features an all-Black cast, but one star’s inclusion has sparked outrage from fans eager to see the project. FX’s “Atlanta” actress Zazie […]
Before the Cyclone, before Nathan’s, before the boardwalk, sideshows, amusement parks, bathhouses, mass numbers of beachgoers wading into the surf, Coney Island was an actual island where settlers in the English colony at Gravesend let their animals graze, according to Brooklyn magazine. Coney’s transformation into the world’s most famous […]
The song now features appearances from Beyoncé, Alicia Keys, Chlöe x Halle and more In partnership with the African American Policy Forum, Janelle Monáe has released a new song “Say Her Name (Hell You Talmbout),” with some star-studded features. Back in 2015, while marching in Black Lives Matter […]
Photo: B Michael & Mark-Anthony Edwards Iconic Black designer dresses Bon Appetit’s Editor-in-Chief Dawn Davis By Audrey J. Bernard Shame on the folks behind the Met Gala for never extending an invitation to top Black Fashion Designer B Michael to attend fashion’s biggest night out! […]
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