Black Excellence

We love to see the black excellence! JET Magazine is making its return with the help of Slutty Vegan's Pinky Cole.

Photo by: AR Graphics/Getty Images Black History Month is officially here! At TV One, where we represent the culture 24/7, Black History is celebrated every day. However, it’s important to truly understand what Black history and the month of February mean to the Black community. Here’s a crash course on how Black History Month got […]

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1. African Burial Ground National Monument (New York) The discovery of an African burial ground in lower Manhattan was a surprise to the workers who unearthed it in 1991 as they prepared to construct a federal office building. More shocking still was its scope: Hundreds of remains were found dating from the 1690s through 1794. […]

Photo Credit: University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf1-08641 Ida B. Wells, co-founder of the NAACP, anti-lynching fighter, and suffragist, is Mattel’s latest historical icon to be recognized with her own Barbie doll. Wells gained notoriety as an investigative journalist who focused on lynchings and other forms of racial discrimination. Wells’ doll is the most recent […]

A Black construction firm will be the saviour of Flint's overdue water crisis.

Ifeoma White-Thorpe just got accepted to all eight Ivy League schools.

2016 had truly been the year of black girls everywhere showing off their #BlackGirlMagic and #BlackExcellence! Teri L. Jackson, who became the first African American woman judge on the San Francisco Superior Court Bench in 2002, surprised us all by making history again! She is now the first African American woman presiding judge in San Francisco. […]