Former President Barack Obama’s “A Promised Land” sold nearly 890,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada within 24 hours of its release, putting it on track to be the bestselling presidential memoir in modern history. Read more

One of the five teens wrongly imprisoned for the assault on a Central Park jogger has a memoir coming out in the spring. Read more

For Steve McQueen, bringing back the London of his childhood began with remembering the scents of his youth. Read more

For Grammy-winning international star Angelique Kidjo, her artistry and her activism inform each other because music has the power to connect beyond skin color, language or countries. Read more

A 16-foot-tall bronze bust of a Black woman by artist Simone Leigh has been installed in the heart of the University of Pennsylvania’s campus, and is being called an “impressive and challenging” addition to the Ivy League school. Read more

You can’t stand to watch another happily-ever-after movie again. Read more

They designed epic floral statements in limited time with some very intense judges, but contestants on the new reality competition series “Full Bloom” did not wilt under pressure. Read more

The Weeknd will bring his popular falsetto vocals to the 2021 Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show. Read more

Miami Museum of Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora (MoCAAD) will present “Creative Conversation” with the founder of the Miami-based Peter London Global Dance Company on Oct. 22 from 6-7:30 p.m. on Facebook.com/MiamiMOCAAD. Read more

In “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” writer and cultural anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston stated that “[t]here are years that ask questions and years that answer.” 2020 is proving itself to be an answering year for questions surrounding the history and present state of racism across different… Read more