May 09, 2020 10:29pm
It’s official. Evander Holyfield is making a boxing comeback at 57 years old. He announced it in pretty dramatic fashion during a video posted to Instagram on Wednesday, May 6.
He’s not going to fight professionally but in exhibiti...
May 08, 2020 04:54pm
Byron Allen has gathered some of the world’s biggest comedians for an event that he’s created called the “Feeding America Comedy Festival” that will lend support to the Feeding America organization.
May 08, 2020 04:50pm
Black novelist Colson Whitehead has become the fourth writer to have won two Pulitzer Prizes for fiction, and on the same day The New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones and California music professor Anthony Davis also were African-Americans hon...
May 08, 2020 04:45pm
D-Nice wants to make sure the high school students won’t go without a prom this spring since schools are closed due to COVID-19. He has partnered with the app Houseparty to host a virtual prom on May 7, from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m EST.
May 07, 2020 10:51pm
“Saddened” is the word that Charles Barkley used when he described how he felt about falling out with Michael Jordan. They were close friends at one point, but that changed after Barkley said Jordan wasn’t a very good owner of the C...
May 07, 2020 10:38pm
Philanthropist, entrepreneur, and fashion designer Tina Knowles Lawson, mother to singing sensation Beyoncé Carter, has created the #IDIDMYPART initiative to encourage Houston residents to get themselves tested in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic...
May 07, 2020 10:28pm
It seems as if nothing is truly safe online. A Zoom conference call that was set up by the Delaware Legislative Black Caucus last week was interrupted by hackers who forced their way in with racist language, Nazi imagery, and graphic pornography, acc...
May 07, 2020 10:24pm
Many sports figures enter into businesses you wouldn’t expect—especially as they’re better known for their athletic prowess than their business acumen. Former Montreal Expos and Chicago White Sox baseball player Andre Dawson sees th...
May 07, 2020 10:20pm
One of the most difficult problems students deal with when they are in college is finding housing, whether they are living on or off-campus. For Ivy League-grad-turned-entrepreneur Derrick Milam, his experiences with student housing as an undergradua...
May 06, 2020 09:01pm
Trevor Noah is making sure that some of his staff on “The Daily Show” are still receiving paychecks as their work continues to be halted because of COVID-19.
Noah isn’t using some big fund that was set up by Comedy Central, t...
May 06, 2020 08:53pm
BLACK ENTERPRISE spoke with Don Hardin, founder of the Don Hardin Group and project manager of the construction project. During the conversation, he expressed the importance of having black-owned businesses involved in projects of this magnitude and ...
May 06, 2020 08:37pm
DJ Jazzy Jeff is throwing a virtual block party on Saturday, May 9, to celebrate the launch of a new limited-edition merchandise collection called “Fresh Prince/Summertime.” The party will also be to give people something to enjoy during ...
May 06, 2020 08:18pm
Jerricha Hoskins knew that if she worked hard enough and embraced every stage in her business, she would accomplish success. Before creating her business, Hoskins grew up in foster care and was homeless with one child. The 30-year-old native of Dayto...
May 05, 2020 08:33pm
Dorchester County officials in South Carolina are hoping to complete renovations to a historic school once used to educate Black children.
Dorchester County Council members approved a $400,000 grant Monday, April 20, for repairs on the St. Geo...
May 05, 2020 08:24pm
The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has been catastrophic for millions of Americans around the country. With over 700,00 jobs lost and over 26 million people filing unemployment, the ramifications from this public health crisis will be fe...