When I think of the first black owned business I’ve ever supported, countless trips to Alex Walker’s barbershop on the northside of Kalamazoo, Michigan vividly flashes into my mind. I can still picture the multiple side tables with Jet magazines stacked high and the smell of an assortment of black hair products in the air. […]

Follow The Beat On Twitter: Jay-Z attended the Florida rally in honor of Trayvon Martin. He gave a shout out to Trayvon’s parents for their strength they have been displaying. He said that Trayvon “serves as a beacon of light to all the people out here so you guys will never have to go through […]

The man who was acquitted for killing the unarmed teen continues to prove why he is not only dangerous, but is also utter trash.

Fresh off the success of the Kalief Browder documentary, Jay Z and the Weinstein company are reportedly partnering up again to do an ambitious series of film and television projects about Trayvon Martin. According to Variety, the rap icon won the rights to two books about Martin, the unarmed black Florida teenager who was fatally […]

Jay Z and the Weinstein Co. are partnering to make a Trayvon Martin film and TV documentary series.

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President Donald Trump told Fox News that a replacement for the Affordable Care Act may not come until 2018.

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Five years after their son Trayvon Martin was killed in a shooting that helped spark the Black Lives Matter movement, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin are weighing political bids to continue their fight for racial justice.

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The "Trayvon Martin" speech was a watershed moment for President Obama. It proved to the Black community that he understood the plight faced by young Black men in America.

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Megyn Kelly, the former FOX News host, is taking her race-baiting to NBC.