Jailed former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal will receive Hepatitis C treatment while serving a life sentence for the death of a Philadelphia police officer, said the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections spokeswoman Friday.

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A tragic school bus accident in Chattanooga, Tennessee took the lives of at least five elementary school students on Monday.

November 9, 2016 was an epic day in the world of comic books. While a ton of attention has been going to the launch of the Invincible Iron Man — which spotlights a 15-year-old black female MIT student who has built her own version of Iron Man’s armor — there is another book that has made some headlines of […]

It's been announced that Forest Whitaker will be joining the Ryan Coogler-directed project. #BlackStarPower at its finest.

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Bremer Trust, the administrator of his estate, filed court documents in Carver County, Minnesota, claiming that 13 people have failed to establish a close connection to Prince.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BIObmfuBk4z/ It’s official – the cast for the Black Panther film has been finalized and we couldn’t be anymore excited. Yesterday, during Comic Con, cast member Lupita Nyong’o shared an epic selfie with the starring actors of the Marvel film, which includes Michael B. Jordan, Danai Gurira, and Chadwick Boseman. Boseman is set to play the main character. Nyong’o is rumored […]

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After causing a stir for attempting to auction off the firearm used to kill Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman is still determined to sell the gun. According to reports, Zimmerman will repost the gun on an auction site for the third time. When he first put the firearm on the auction block, he priced the gun […]

With news that Michael B. Jordan has joined "The Black Panther" and Lupita Nyong’o in negotiations to star in the film, Black Twitter is beyond hyped.

As excitement builds for the new Marvel film, Michael B. Jordan is added to the roster

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Need to catch up on Empire? Tune into TV ONE. The network recently announced an Empire binge-a-thon on May 14. TV ONE will air 17 back-to-back episodes beginning at 9 a.m. on Saturday. “EMPIRE is one of those cultural phenomena that seem to come along very rarely in television’s history,” said Brad Siegel, TV One’s President, […]