Black athletes are winning, literally, at the Rio Olympics! From gymnasts to shot put to fencing to swimming to… it’s gold domination but nobody does it quite like Usain which is why his memes are so hilarious. Check twitter for the latest and greatest memes here      

While we watch the Olympic games going on now in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil we also must remember the history of our athletes who competed, won and were not really celebrated. In 1936, 18 Black Athletes participated in the Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. A film has been released about the things they enduring going […]

Little Known Black History Fact

William Alexander Leidesdorff was born in 1810 in the Danish West Indies.  The son of a white Jewish Danish plantation owner and his common-law wife, Anna Marie Sparks, who was said to be of mixed African and Spanish and/or Carib ancestry, Leidesdorff left St. Croix in his teens to travel to Denmark in order to […]

R&B singer Monica should be celebrating today, the Grammy winner’s ‘Still Standing’ has just been certified Gold by the RIAA for sales of over 500,000 – just four weeks after it’s release.