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Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show: A Bold Rebuke of Trump’s America

Tacuma Roeback, Managing Editor - February 10, 2025

Kendrick Lamar performing the Super Bowl LIX Half Time Show (Screenshot). BHM Our Voices: Perspectives on the Black Experience – Stories examining the issues, injustices,...

Hollywood’s ‘White Saviors’ Still Try To Shape Black Experience in America

Special Contributor - October 17, 2024

Despite the efforts of pioneering directors and screenwriters like Spike Lee, John Singleton, Steve McQueen, and Jordan Peele, Hollywood has a long and torrid...

Black Excellence in Gymnastics

Site Editor - March 29, 2024

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (NORMAL, ILLINOIS, March 23, 2024) Talia Omotola, an 8th grader at Lincoln Middle School in Edwardsville, recently competed in the State Gymnastics Championship...

The pot and the kettle are black: Tomlin gets persecuted, but ‘Belicheat’ doesn’t?

Aubrey Bruce - October 21, 2023

I am freakin’ sick and tired of having to defend every time that the Steelers Head Coach Mike Tomlin passes gas that many of...

NFL Star Damar Hamlin Suffered Cardiac Arrest During Game, Currently In Critical Condition

A.R. Shaw, Executive Editor - January 3, 2023

Damar Hamlin is in critical condition after suffering a cardiac arrest during a Monday Night Football game. On Jan. 2, Hamlin, a star player...

How Morehouse Medical Students Joined An NFL Initiative To Increase Diversity In Sports Medicine

Site Editor - September 8, 2022

When Paolo Gilleran's classmate sent him a post advertising the NFL’s Diversity in Sports Medicine Pipeline Initiative, he immediately began piecing together how he...

Swim Cap Made For Black Hair Receives Approval Following Olympic Ban

Black Information Network - September 8, 2022

A cap designed to protect Black swimmers' hair has finally received approval to be used in competitive races after it was banned from the...

Brittney Griner Shares Message To Wife Amid Return To Russian Court

Black Information Network - July 27, 2022

Brittney Griner returned back to court in Russia on Tuesday (July 26) with a special message for her wife. Amid Griner's ongoing drug trial, the...

Chicago to Host First-Ever NASCAR Cup Series in 2023

Site Editor - July 22, 2022

For the first time ever, the sights, sounds, and speed of NASCAR are coming to downtown Chicago on July 1-2, 2023. One of the...

WNBA Star, Candace Parker unveils new Adidas “ACE” -Part II Collection

Danielle Sanders - July 20, 2022

Adidas Basketball continued its ongoing commitment to elevate women in the sport during the WNBA All-Star Weekend. All Stars Candace Parker, Nneka Ogwumike, and...