Influential
How we know her: Writer, director, actress, producer, entrepreneur Why she’s praiseworthy: Rae personifies the multi-hyphenate title. There’s seemingly nothing she can’t do. Those who have followed her career since her web series know that she’s one of the most creative people in Hollywood. The self-proclaimed “awkward Black girl” is best known for her hit […]
Yevgeny Prigozhin rose from being an ex-con and hot dog vendor to winning lucrative Kremlin contracts and heading a formidable mercenary army. But it all came to a sudden end when the private plane carrying him and others mysteriously exploded over Russia. Prigozhin’s Aug. 23 death put an exclamation point on what had already been […]
From a hot dog vendor to head of the formidable mercenary army Wagner Group, his rise through Russian society could easily be described as meteoric. But it all came to a sudden end when the plane carrying him and others mysteriously exploded. The Aug. 23 death of Yevgeny Prigozhin put an . . .
A debt finance partner at White & Case has been featured on a list of the U.K’s 10 most influential Black people. Partner Josh Siaw MBE, who also heads up the firm’s Africa practice, has placed sixth on the 2024 ‘Powerlist’, an annual list that celebrates some of U.K.’s most powerful people of African, African […]
TONYA MOSLEY, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m Tonya Mosley. This week, the late rapper Tupac Shakur would have turned 52 years old. He was killed in 1996 at the age of 25. And over the decades, a flurry of books and documentaries have been created and written about his short life and the way […]
Catherine Coleman Flowers is influential. Her work over the past two decades in drawing attention to the long-ignored issues of wastewater inefficiencies in the Black Belt has helped bring international interest and outrage. Billions of federal dollars are now devoted to the problem – in the Black Belt and in other often-ignored communities around the country. […]
Review Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time’s Journey Through Rock & Roll History By Bill JanovitzHachette, 592 pages, $31 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. A selective list of
Cinedigm (NASDAQ: CIDM), the leading independent streaming company super-serving enthusiast audiences, today announced plans to become a premier provider of content tailored to the African American culture by entering a partnership with J. Alexander Martin, founder of the iconic fashion brand FUBU and successful producer Roberto “Rush” Evans, to launch the For Us By Us […]
Thomas R. Donahue, the second in command to Lane Kirkland, president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. for 16 years, and briefly his interim successor in an era of relentless union membership declines and diminished influence by organized labor in American life, died on Saturday in Washington, D.C. He was 94. He was suffering from several health issues […]
(AP) – One would have to go back hundreds of years to find a monarch who reigned longer than Queen Elizabeth II. In her 70 years on the throne, she helped modernize the monarchy across decades of enormous social change, royal marriages and births, and family scandals. For most Britons, she was the only monarch […]