“Judas and the Black Messiah” director Shaka King and star Dominique Fishback talk about making the film and King tells Amanpour why he thinks studios didn’t want to make it at first.
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John Berman speaks with Diane Abbott, a UK Labour Party member and the first Black female member of Parliament, about the royal family’s response to the interview Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex gave to Oprah Winfrey.
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History Refocused: Oscar James Dunn was one of 1,500 Black men elected to office during the Civil War Reconstruction period. Black voter turnout was at a high, thanks to a big push from President Lincoln and Congressional Republicans.
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An investigation into the death of Kendrick Johnson, the Georgia teenager found dead in a rolled-up gym mat eight years ago, has been reopened, according to Lowndes County Sheriff Ashley Paulk.
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Television host W. Kamau Bell speaks to CNN’s Alisyn Camerota and John Berman about a campaign he was featured in, which addresses combating vaccine misinformation in the Black community.
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A Goldman Sachs report shows Black American women hold 90% less wealth than White American men. As a result of the data, Goldman Sachs is investing $10 billion to change those disparities.
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The creation of the United States Army’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force is a new collaboration between the United States Army and HBCUs. The Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology, or ASA (ALT), in coordination with Army Futures Command, held a virtual event to introduce this collaboration.
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Hampton University alum, Ashley McQueen, a NASA Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) and special emphasis program manager for Native Americans, said Hampton offered rigorous academics and opportunities for professional development. McQueen uses the skills that she acquired from Hampton at NASA in her work advocating for Native American communities. Requirements such as
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Launched by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), the Aerospace Education Research and Innovation Center (AERIC) will be a new addition to Alabama’s Tuskegee University. The center will support two-year research projects in fatigue damage tolerance, experimental aerodynamics and the performance of materials and components under extreme environmental conditions, according to a recent announcement by
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