*”Cinnamon” a Tubi original film starring the legendary Pam Grier, Damon Wayans, and Hailey Kilgore – has been selected to have its worldwide premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival! The film follows a struggling small-town gas station attendant, Jodi (Tony Nominee Kilgore, “Power Book III: Raising Kanan”) is an aspiring and truly gifted singer.
Nick Cannon appears on Way Up With Angela Yee in April 2023 *Nick Cannon has a feeling Black women have grown tired of antics, and he’s confused as to why. “I feel like Black women are really upset with me for some reason,” he said on the YouTube show Way Up With Angela Yee. “And
A sign on the window at the Cook County Jail complex | Photo: Chicago Community Bond Fund *USA TODAY reports of study that found that white people were largely kept out of prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic, while Blacks and Latinos were left inside. According to the study by multiple interdisciplinary researchers from U.S. universities, and
South Africa Mass Shooting (Ihsaan Haffejee-AFP-Getty Images) *(CNN) — Sound familar? Ten members from the same family, including seven women and three men, were killed by gunmen Friday in the city of Pietermaritzburg, in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province of South Africa, police said Friday. “According to initial police reports, unknown gunmen stormed a Pietermaritzburg homestead and
By Ralph E. Moore Jr., The Moore Report Wealth and its distribution in the United States is a fascinating study. From wealth gained during centuries of free slave labor to debates over minimum wage law, there’s a lot to discuss and fairness has nothing to do it. The poet Nikki Giovanni once said in her
By OneUnited Bank In celebration of National Financial Literacy Month, OneUnited Bank, the nation’s largest Black-owned bank, is proud to announce its 13th Annual “I Got Bank!” National Financial Literacy Contest where 10 children will win a $1,000 savings account. To make financial literacy a core value of the Black community, the Bank is offering a
By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, msayles@afro.com JPMorgan Chase recently hosted a small business roundtable with business and nonprofit leaders in D.C.’s Black community at the Anacostia Arts Center. Ben Walter, CEO of business banking, led the panel discussion, which featured Pinkey Reddick, owner of Pinke’s E.A.T.S; Shanel Adams, general manager of Dog Tag Bakery;
By Catherine Pugh, Special to the AFRO “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” —Proverbs 22:6 Almost every day on an Urban One (formerly Radio One) media platform, you can hear a disc jockey ask listeners to patronize Black businesses. It
By Tashi McQueen, AFRO Political Writer, tmcuqeen@afro.com On April 17, Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-Md.-07), U.S. Sens. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) gathered to present a $1,750,000 check to the Juanita Jackson Mitchell Legal Center project for the restoration of the well-known legal office of Juanita Jackson Mitchell. Mitchell was the first African-American
By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, msayles@afro.com Reshonda Young is a Waterloo, Iowa native and entrepreneur on a mission to open the state’s first Black-owned bank. The Bank of Jabez, which is set to open this year, will be a community development financial institution (CDFI) and will work to prepare and empower people to create