at Black Girls Rock awards NEWARK, N.J. (AP) – Janet Jackson received the rock star award at the 2018 Black Girls Rock awards. The Grammy …

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Queen Latifah will be honored with an award named for a pioneering opera singer. The Marian Anderson Award is given in Philadelphia …

PHOTO COURTESY OF YOUTUBE.COM As a 21-year-old Aretha Franklin worked on her singing voice in New York during the summer of 1963, her father, Rev. …

PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIPEDIA BALTIMORE (AP) – The portrait used to hang in the hallway, welcoming children and parents to the Archbishop Borders School in …

PHOTO COURTESY OF WHAT-THE-FAKE.COM WASHINGTON (AP) – Melania Trump is planning her first big solo international swing with a trip through several African countries in …

PHOTO COURTESY OF HBCU DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The alumni association of one of Florida’s best-known historically black universities is asking for the resignation of …

PHOTO COURTESY OF LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – Springfield, Missouri, is celebrating a man whose civil rights case changed the course of American …

WASHINGTON (AP) – A pioneering black, female journalist is being honored with a statue in the nation’s capital. A life-size sculpture of Alice Allison Dunnigan, …

PHOTO COURTESY OF TWITTER.COM WASHINGTON (AP) – White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders says the White House values diversity, but she would not say how …

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) – A white man charged with manslaughter in the death of an unarmed black man whose videotaped shooting in a store …