The Sacramento Kings scrapped a planned promotional “Year of the Monkey” T-shirt giveaway after DeMarcus Cousins complained. Coincidentally, the Chinese New Year shirts were to be given out on the first day of Black History Month.
February marks Black History Month and despite it being the shortest month of the calendar year, it’s a celebration. The #BlackHistoryMonth is trending with pics and memes (and some jokes) highlighting the importance of the month and what it means.
After riling up social media with more of her crazy banter last week, Stacey Dash has reached her version of a full circle moment. She wants an apology from everybody who dragged her for wanting to dead Black History Month and BET.
Stacey Dash is back on her soap box spewing nonsense for the purpose of sound bites, and slander. Dash appeared on Fox News Channels Fox & Friends to talk about the Oscars diversity controversy, which opened the door for more pointless banter on all things related to Black people.
The Washington Wizards were an early surprise in the first half of the NBA season, with many analysts picking them to go deep into the playoffs. Now struggling, top officials are sinking the franchise’s hopes even lower after an awfully vain Black History Month photo full of struggle.
Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio apologized to students and faculty after its dining services division launched a Black History Month menu. The menu featured fried chicken, collard greens, and other southern foods and was placed on a billboard featuring the photos of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other Black leaders.
As Black History Month reaches its halfway point, we felt it best to introduce (or familiarize) you with several African-American inventors who created products we still use today. View image | gettyimages.com Benjamin Banneker Invented: The wooden clock. Without Banneker, there would be no tick-tock, Big Ben or no reason to logical go cuckoo.
Television has taken slow, but noteworthy steps, to become more diverse since the 20th century.
Provided that “Happy” wins an Academy Award, Pharrell Williams might make (Black) history this weekend. On Sunday (March 2), Williams could become the sixth Black person to win a Best Original Song Oscar in the awards show’s 85-year history.
Although Black History Month comes to a close as of this Friday, a five-year-old rapper out of East St. Louis, Ill. is keeping the torch lit with his debut video. Heir Jordin, a pint-sized rapper with a big message, comes forth with his new track “Proud History” and might make a few of you proud […]
Today, February 17, 2014 will forever be known as the day #GhettoJeopardy was born. The illusive hashtag popped up online this afternoon and Black Twitter can’t look away.
