Jay Harris had his scholarship to Michigan State rescinded after he posted the explicit rap video, "Jay Datbull - Datbull 4 Life" to YouTube. He decided to become a full-time rapper.

Police in Mexico have detained two men suspected of involvement in the murder of Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of US political activist Malcolm X.

“Access to capital is a bigger problem in the African-American community than in non-minority communities,” said Nathan Bennett-Fleming, founder of Blackstartup.com. Our platform is a new tool to generate financial resources to fund ideas and to address systemic social problems facing African-Americans on the local, national, and international level.

Before 2007's "great recession" , non-Hispanic White families, on average, were about four times as wealthy as non-White families, according to the Urban Institute’s analysis of Federal Reserve data. By 2010, whites were about six times as wealthy. The dollar value of that gap has grown, as well. By...Read more

Bob Law, longtime radio host and community organizer, is interviewed on Reel Talk with Brother Jay on KJCB 770AM in Lafayette, Louisiana. If you want to understand the importance of Black-owned radio, re-directing spending, and a positive solution, the Million Dollar Black Spending Power Campaign -- this is a...Read more

Actor Wendell Pierce has launched a chain of grocery and convenience stores named Sterling Farms in low-income neighborhoods where supermarkets don't boldly go. The store will offer a free shuttle to anyone who spends $50 or more, so they need not walk or take the bus with...Read more

A coalition of Black media owners, professional and political organizations are calling on African American consumers across the nation to begin immediately to redirect a minimum of $20.00 per week in spending to Black-owned businesses. The initiative being called “The Million Dollar Black Spending Power Campaign” is being organized...Read more

Twelve former Florida A&M University band members are now facing more severe charges for the 2011 death of drum major Robert Champion, after Florida prosecutors on Monday filed manslaughter counts against them.

"Students were aware they had been stuck in an 'information gap,' but with access to the Internet, they would no longer be disconnected."

The GEO Group, "the world's leading provider of correctional, detention, and community reentry services" paid $6 million US to put its name on the college football stadium at Florida Atlantic University.