News by subject: BLK

Television and film producer turned technology and sports entrepreneur, Charlie Ebersol, and activists Dr. Bernice A. King, Ashley D. Bell and Tishara Jones are set to create a one-day-only, custom theme park ? TOMOROWORLD, in celebration of...

EBONY Media Group, the most influential Black-owned media company in the world, announces the launch of EBONY Alliance, a new advertising platform designed to help BIPOC creators and aligned companies monetize their sites and digital assets easily...

Today, Destination Tomorrow, a national LGBTQ+ organization with centers located in the South Bronx and Atlanta, is announcing the recipients of the 2023-2024 TRANScend Community Impact Fund. Supported by Gilead Sciences, the fund addresses the...

HBCU All-Star Battle of the Bands is excited to team up with Allstate, a digital protection solutions company that empowers customers to achieve their hopes and dreams. HBCU All-Star Battle of the Bands is the largest Historically Black Colleges and...

Cayman Kelly recently celebrated his 50th birthday with family and friends while reviewing his career milestones and the personal events that have shaped him over the course of the past year. Beginning with a tragic health event that nearly cost him...

Bloomberg for Education and Bloomberg Human Resources put the finance knowledge of more than 60 students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to the test in a new environmental, social, governance (ESG) trading challenge event....

Six Florida attorneys from global law firm Greenberg Traurig, P.A. have been recognized by professional honorary organization National Black Lawyers (NBL). Shareholders Jéan E. Wilson in the Orlando office, and Jaret L. Davis and Nikki Lewis Simon in...

The National Alliance of Black School Educators (NABSE) recently named Patricia Smith, director of federal programs for St. Charles Parish Public Schools in Louisiana, as the recipient of the 2022 NABSE $10,000 Scholarship Award sponsored by...

The NAACP is demanding a recount in the recent Oakland mayor's election due to a razor-thin margin of victory of 677 votes, an unusually high number of disqualified votes, and widespread confusion surrounding ranked-choice voting (RCV). "With an...

As it marks its 85th birthday today and launches a year-long anniversary celebration, March of Dimes, the leading organization fighting for the health of all moms and babies, announces the launch of the inaugural March of Dimes Research Center for...

Ayzay Ukwuoma simply asked Chat GPT to "write a press release about a contemporary black artist's use of stretchwrap as an ephemeral material in paintings," and Chat GTP responded with the following three paragraphs:...

Three significant errors in traditional swimming instruction have actually prevented swimming students from becoming safe in water and by extension, contributed to the high number of drownings in the U.S. according to Miracle Swimming School for...

James Gibson was sentenced to life imprisonment after being wrongly convicted of murder. James fought for his freedom and following a lengthy battle in the courts, he was completely exonerated. Since his release, he has sought to help others and has...

It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of Dr. Bobby Lee Lovett, award-winning author, Emeritus Professor of History and former Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Tennessee State University, former member of the R.H. Boyd Board...

Health equity and social change public affairs firm Langco + Partners congratulates folklorist, oral historian, and African American Studies professor Dr. Kern Jackson's contributions to academic research, equity, and advocacy. The award-winning film...

The Sanctuary at Kingdom Square (TSAKS), a Baptist community of faith that has been centered around the Word of God since 1927, is located in Upper Marlboro, MD, and welcomes all to join them in worship! Their church invites anyone looking for a new...

Harlem Fine Arts Show (HFAS) will celebrate their 15th year of being the largest traveling arts show featuring Artists from the African Diaspora. This show will feature up to 100 artists of African, Caribbean, and Black descent over a monumental...

Nearly 5,000 delegates representing over 40 countries gathered at Operation HOPE's 9th Annual HOPE Global Forums | Annual Meeting (HGF). The standing-room-only conference garnered multiple new partner commitments to grow and expand financial...

Acclaimed artist and billionaire CEO, Kwanza Jones, releases 3 new Holiday singles. The songs titled, "Here for the Season," "This Christmas," and "Raise Our Voice," were created to spread and promote love in the Holiday season....

Today, Bridge Group Investments, founded by the Mersho Family in 2004, and Steerpoint Capital announced that they have closed on an acquisition of the Northridge Mall in Salinas, California....

Sergeant Charlotte Djossou, a 18-year veteran of the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), has uncovered extensive evidence of wrongdoing by MPD in her whistleblower case against the District. She is represented by Lynne Bernabei...

This holiday season, H&M and Buy From a Black Woman traveled from coast to coast to present the second year of the "Buy From a Black Woman Holiday Market" with events in New York City, Los Angeles, Miami and Chicago. The market featured BFABW vendors...

The New York Amsterdam News (AmNews), one of America's most influential and oldest continuously published Black newspapers, serving the nation's largest Black and brown community, is proud to announce that two of some of the most influential funders...

Apis & Heritage Capital Partners (A&H), an investment fund that finances the conversion of companies with substantial Black and Brown workforces into 100% employee-owned businesses using a 100%...

The American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) has elected Lynne Holden, M.D., to its Board of Directors. She is a professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and Senior Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at the Albert Einstein College...

Nationally revered, trusted and successful prisoner reentry program?Texas Offender Reentry Initiative (T.O.R.I.)?celebrated the graduation of 98 program participants on Friday, Dec. 16. The luncheon, hosted by T.D. Jakes, featured Grammy ®...

Nu Standard®, a state-of-the-art haircare brand curated for the Busy Queen on-the-go, will launch its new professional haircare treatment, HYDRASILK® Hydrating Bond System, in January 2023 exclusively with Cosmo Prof stores nationwide ? the leading...

The Power of Culture to Humanize Marketing. Culturati Research & Consulting, a thought leader in U.S. cross-cultural intelligence, has released the 2023 edition of their Cultural Intelligence Series.  This advanced knowledge suite is composed of five...

A racial discrimination lawsuit has been filed against Zep Inc., a leading industrial and consumer cleaning products company, by one of its Chicago-based employees. The female employee, who is Black alleges the following: In November 2021, during a...

Today, the Descendants of Rosewood Foundation, Inc. announced the Remembering Rosewood Centennial commemoration. This centennial anniversary will honor the legacy of bravery, determination, and perseverance of the eight families impacted by the...

The families of three innocent bystanders killed by high-speed Houston Police Department chases blame their deaths on the city's "long, violent history" of targeting Black neighborhoods, their lawyers at Doyle Dennis LLP and the Law Office of...

L.A. Works invites the Los Angeles community to kick off 2023 in service at the largest volunteer event in LA commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life and legacy. At the LA Memorial Coliseum in 1964, Dr. King addressed 15,000 Angelenos on the...

Today the Ford Foundation announced its overall funding for independent documentary film in 2022. One of the largest documentary funds in the world and a part of the foundation's Creativity and Free Expression (CFE) program, JustFilms provided over...

Chonda Nwamu, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary at Ameren, has earned a spot as a member of the Executive Leadership Council (ELC) Class of 2023. The ELC is the preeminent membership organization committed to increasing the number...

Black and Hispanic patients with asthma, cardiovascular disease or chronic kidney disease are more likely than their white peers to have their prescriptions rejected by their health plan, a new data report from the nonprofit Institute for Patient...

Africa House, a project that convenes the best and brightest entrepreneurs, initiatives, and opportunities from Africa to leaders across industry and government, is excited to announce the successful completion of a high-level event held in...

Terrell Samuels, the founder and developer of Monytize, has released the app by invitation only. Monytize's altruistic and moral approach to conducting business in the entertainment industry can alter the public's perception of the entertainment...

This week, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) took to the United States Senate Floor and made the case for the passage of the CROWN Act by unanimous consent. The CROWN Act provides legal protection against racial discrimination based on natural hair texture...

President Biden hosted African Leaders at his first ever U.S.-Africa Leaders' Summit this week. Per the U.S. State Department, "the...

With the flu and other seasonal viruses spreading across the state of Georgia, COVID-19 cases are increasing again, possibly putting Georgia on the verge of yet another COVID surge. To make vaccines more accessible this holiday season, the Stay Well...

The Black Executive CMO Alliance (BECA), an alliance of Black marketing executives from iconic consumer and business-to-business brands and companies across the globe, today announced Loucia Hamilton as BECA's first-ever Executive Director, and the...

By voting to end the sale of flavored tobacco products ? including flavored e-cigarettes, menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars ? the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners has taken bold action to protect kids from tobacco addiction, save lives...

The 2022 Cynopsis Model D & It List Awards were held on Wednesday, December 7th, in New York City ? celebrating innovators, leaders and creators advancing the digital charge. More than 30 companies and campaigns were recognized for their outstanding...

Founder of Black Girl PR, Nantale Muwonge, has been selected as Black Women Marketers 2022 Entrepreneur of the Year. The award designates an agency owner who is building and sustaining a successful agency. "Every day Black women contribute to...

The Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) is delighted to announce another Black Journalism Fellowship, this one in partnership with The Globe and Mail. The CJF-Globe and Mail Black Journalism Fellowship is the fifth in the CJF's Black Journalism...

Today, 1863 Ventures and Ford Motor Company Fund announced the opening of applications for women business owners and social entrepreneurs in the Kansas City metropolitan area to compete for up to $50,000 in a Shark Tank- style competition to start...

The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) and ZERO today announced the 2022 ZERO-PCF VAlor Young Investigator Award for innovative research into the causes of racial disparities in prostate cancer and potential strategies to reduce them....

Each December, I self-check to determine my level of fulfillment. Did I accomplish anything transformative? How did I learn from past triumphs or...

The Black Fives Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose mission is to research, preserve, showcase, teach, and honor the pre-NBA history of African Americans in basketball, announces the launch of its 2023 "RENS100" centennial celebration to...

BMO is proud to announce it has been named Newsweek's "Best Big Bank 2023" in...