A study released on Monday found that Black content creators make significantly less money than their white counterparts, NBC News reports. Conducted by MSL U.S., in partnership with The Influencer League, “Time to Face the Influencer Pay Gap” examined several factors including annual income, size of followings, the amounts influencers were offered for deals and…

The federal investigation that re-examined the murder of Emmett Till was closed on Monday after the Justice Department failed to find any substantial evidence that a key figure in the case lied, the New York Times reports.  Over 60 years later, the case was prompted to reopen after author Timothy Tyson’s book, The Blood of…

Academy Award-winning actress and director Halle Berry has signed a multi-picture deal to star and produce films with Netflix, Variety reports. Bruised, her directorial debut was rated as the top film in the United States in its first week of release. Also, it was the No. 2 English language film around the globe, ranking as…

R&B singer Trey Songz is currently involved in an investigation after an alleged sexual assault took place in Las Vegas over the weekend, NBC News reports. On Sunday, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department received a report about an alleged encounter at a hotel on South Las Vegas Boulevard. Although no details were released by…

In this November 2015 EBONY magazine article, the author explains why he won’t be missing Turkey Day this year—or ever.

Montgomery will forever be known as the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement. And through a concerted year-long campaign that kicked off in December of 2020, people from across the globe have been able to celebrate and commemorate the life-changing work that took place there during the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. “Montgomery is at a…

A local rapper has been charged by police after his SUV ran through a Christmas parade in the US state of Wisconsin, 7 News reports. Darrell Edward Brooks, who goes by the rap moniker MathBoi Fly, was arrested in Waukesha after he drove his Ford Escape through a crowd of people leaving at least five…

Home values in Black neighborhoods have been historically lower than white neighborhoods and the trend continues, reports the New York Times. In a 2018 Brookings Institution and Gallup study, it was discovered that homes owned in predominantly African American neighborhoods are worth, on average, half as much as those in neighborhoods with no Black residents.…

In Little Rock, Arkansas, a man is committed to spreading Christmas cheer after being told to remove his “Negro Santa” from his yard by another neighbor last year, KFOR reports. Chris Kennedy, who decorated his yard with a Black Santa for the previous three years, was shocked when he received the racist letter. “I’ve done…