News From A Colorful Perspective
Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison passed away Monday night in Montefiore Medical Center in New York. She was 88-years old. Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford on Feb. 8, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio. She graduated from Howard University with a degree in English in 1953 and pursued a Masters of…
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey surprised students at West Side High School in Newark, N.J. on Friday with a visit, and to support a program that’s changing lives. “Blessed. Oprah gave us $500,000 dollars for ‘Lights On,’” Principal Akbar Cook posted on Instagram with photos. Cook is dedicated to supporting his…
When Miss North Carolina Cheslie Kryst was crowned as the 2019 Miss USA competition winner on Thursday, history was made. Three Black women are Miss USA, Miss Teen USA, and Miss America — for the first time. Cheslie Kryst joins Miss America Nia Franklin, and recently crowned Miss Teen USA…
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey, and cable giant HBO have distanced themselves from the controversial documentary “Leaving Neverland.” The docuseries “Leaving Neverland,” which aired on HBO in March, featured Wade Robson and James Safechuck who accused Michael Jackson of sexually abusing them over a number of years. The alleged abuse began…
Oprah Winfrey interviewed two men featured in a documentary who claim Jackson sexually abused them when they were kids. Almost a decade after the death of Michael Jackson, allegations of sexual abuse still remain. Jackson settled one case against him, in 1994, where no charges were filed, then was acquitted…
An automated telephone call with racist and anti-Semitic statements was sent to voters in the state of Georgia on Thursday. Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Stacey Abrams, is campaigning to be the first Black female governor in U.S. history, as is Florida’s potential first Black governor, Andrew Gillum. Both are said to…
In the first of two events on Thursday, Oprah Winfrey gave an electrifying speech in Marietta in support of Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. “I’m here today because of the men and because of the women who were lynched, who were humiliated, who were discriminated against, who were suppressed,…
Oprah Winfrey has endorsed Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate in a tight gubernatorial race, and will visit Georgia. Abrams’ campaign announced that Winfrey would join her for two town hall-style events on Thursday “for a conversation on the critical value of women in leadership and what is at stake for…
The marriage of American actress Meghan Markle and Britain’s Prince Harry on Saturday was anything but the traditional royal protocol for a wedding at Windsor Castle in England. From a sermon by the first Black leader of the Episcopal Church in the United States to a soul-stirring gospel choir, it…
Hundreds of people lined up in the rain to experience a long overdue piece of American history and honor the lives lost to lynching at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum in Montgomery Alabama on Thursday. The Equal Justice Initiative, sponsor of this project, has…
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