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  • Tiffany Brown, Head of the 1-Woman Company That Delivered Only 50,000 of 30 Million Meals to Puerto Rico, Blames FEMA

    An Atlanta woman whose one-person company was contracted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide millions of meals to Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, but delivered only a fraction of that, says that FEMA is to blame. Tiffany Brown, who is listed as the only employee of Tribute Contracting LLC, last…

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  • 1st-Ever Black Hockey Player for Team USA Hits the Ice for Winter Olympics

    So apropos that it’s Black History Month because Jordan Greenway will be making some black history when he steps onto the ice for the 2018 Winter Olympics as the first African American to be named to the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team. At 6 feet, 5 inches tall and 238 pounds, the 20-year-old will also…

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  • Temptations Singer Dennis Edwards May Have Been Abused Before His Death: Report

    Dennis Edwards, the man whose rich, raspy voice held the bottom of so many of the Temptations’ hits, including “I Can’t Get Next to You” and “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone,” was allegedly abused before his death, according to a recent report. Edwards died on Thursday, Feb. 1, from complications from meningitis. The St. Louis…

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  • Black-Adjacent Hollywood Manager Shuts Down Agency Amid Sexual Harassment Allegations

    Updated, Monday, Feb. 5, 2018, 5:15 p.m. EST: Hollywood talent manager Vincent Cirrincione has reportedly shuttered his company, Vincent Cirrincione Associates, after being accused of sexually harassing nine women over the span of 20 years. The former manager and business partner of A-list starlets such as Halle Berry and Taraji P. Henson, who reportedly dropped…

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  • The Numbers Are In: Super Bowl Ratings the Lowest in 8 Years

    The accounting has been done—at least in part—and unsurprisingly, ratings were down for Super Bowl LII, in which Philadelphia bested those annoying New England Patriots 41-33 for its first-ever Super Bowl win. Whether you didn’t watch out of protest against the treatment of former quarterback Colin Kaepernick (as more than 200,000 who signed this petition…

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  • ‘Long Live the King’ Black Panther Commercial Wins the Super Bowl

    King T’Challa, also known as the Black Panther, came all up through the TV screen during Super Bowl LII, and hands down, the ad won. The commercial uses the set from the film, in which we hear actor Chadwick Boseman’s lilting voice as T’Challa, reveling in all his coolness in the spot featuring the all-new…

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  • Facebook Group Deactivated After Vowing to Target Black Panther on Rotten Tomatoes

    A Facebook group that plotted and planned to create mayhem for the Black Panther movie on crowdsourced film-review site Rotten Tomatoes has been taken down. On Friday, Facebook deactivated the group Down-With-Disneys-Treatment-of-Franchises-and-its-Fanboys, reportedly started by a dude who calls himself “alt-right” or, in black-speak, “all-white.” In the last week, the group created an event, “Give…

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  • Sheila E. Says There Will Be ‘No Hologram’ During J.T.’s Super Bowl Halftime Show

    Updated Sunday, Feb. 4, 2018, 11:10 a.m. EST: After what proved to be some serious blowback after rumors that Justin Timberlake would be using a Prince hologram for his Super Bowl halftime show, longtime Prince collaborator Sheila E. confirmed last night that there would be none. Sheila E. said that she spoke to Timberlake on…

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  • Maryland County Passes a Black Lives Matter Week of Action for All Its Schools

    The Prince George’s County school board voted unanimously on Friday to pass a resolution (pdf) called the “Black Lives Matter Week of Action in Schools” so that the 128,000 students in the second-largest school district in Maryland will learn about and discuss the Black Lives Matter movement starting Monday. Fox 5 DC reports that the…

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  • Black Unemployment Is Back Up. Way Up. What Will Trump Have to Say Now? 

    Well, that was fast. The black unemployment rate in the United States, which fell to a record low in December, something President Donald Trump gleefully took credit for, has made its biggest jump upward since 2012. Now run tell that. According to the Labor Department’s monthly employment report, released Friday, joblessness among black Americans rose…

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Ms. Bronner Helm is the Senior Editorial Director at Colorlines. Mouthy Black Girl. Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Fellow. Shea Butter Feminist. Virgo Sun, Aries Moon.


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