2023-01-27 07:38
Angel Gregorio recently opened a new location for her specialty spice shop called the Spice Suite, she invited several other
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The Black Detour is a independent media outlet that advocates for Black people to not only be empowered, but informed on issues in the Black community. We’re part of a growing movement in America to empower Black people all across the United States. At our core we stand with Black people and want our voices, opinions and thoughts heard.
2023-01-27 06:02
A white mob in Clark County, Arkansas lynched a Ben Daniels and his two sons on January 24, 1879. Daniels
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2023-01-24 07:53
Bethune-Cookman University students are upset with their school. On Monday students protested in response to the school’s announcement to not
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2023-01-24 07:11
LONDON (AP) — Music streaming service Spotify said Monday it’s cutting 6% of its global workforce, or about 600 jobs,
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2023-01-24 06:48
A employee at a Indiana McDonald’s accidentally gave a customer a bag of cash instead of their order in the
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2023-01-18 07:20
Born into slavery on September 8, 1807 in Chesterfield District, South Carolina, Horace King was a bridge architect and builder
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2023-01-18 06:30
A Georgia man was fatally shot on the job while working at an auto repair shop. 24-year-old Daniel Gordon fell victim
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2023-01-11 06:32
NEW YORK (AP) — Striking nurses chanted and waved signs outside two large New York City hospitals Monday after a weekend
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2023-01-06 07:14
Amazon plans to cut 18,000 roles as part of a workforce reduction. Chief Executive Andy Jassy announced this in a
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2023-01-05 07:57
Earlier this week the Justice Department announced that the U.S. Postal Service can continue to deliver prescription abortion medication according
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2023-01-05 07:54
Fox Sports morning show Undisputed a debate format where Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe debate sports topics everyday. On Wednesday
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2023-01-05 06:20
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A serial grifter who gained national infamy as a teenager when he impersonated a
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2023-01-04 07:01
A former Coppin State University (CSU) basketball player is taking legal action against the school, claiming that an assistant coach
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2023-01-03 07:47
Jackson, Mississippi residents say they’re “tired of apologies” from state officials in regards to the constant water stoppages and boil
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2023-01-03 06:00
18-year-old Vidiol Tsague from Cameroon, has been going viral for his videos that show him flying planes and drones that he
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2023-01-03 06:00
Trina Bediako and her father, Tilmon F. Brown, the owners of New Horizon’s Baking, a Black-owned business based in Norwalk, Ohio that
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2023-01-02 07:10
77-year-old Sharon Lemond has recently been recognized for her over fifty year career as a teacher in the Houston Independent School
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2023-01-02 06:46
18-year-old college freshman Jaylen Smith was elected to the mayor of Earle, Arkansas becoming the youngest Black mayor in U.S
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2023-01-02 06:41
A Black woman passed away after letting five other people in California home know about a house fire in the
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2022-12-29 07:06
A Buffalo woman discovered dead after she was being trapped in her car for several hours during a snowstorm. 22-year-old
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2022-12-29 06:29
A video shows a group of white South African men verbally and physically going after a group of Black teens
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2022-12-28 07:39
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — City officials in Jackson, Mississippi, on Christmas Day announced that residents must now boil their drinking
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2022-12-28 07:21
Bethune-Cookman has announced they have hired former NFL star safety Ed Reed as its next head football coach. Reed, 44,
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2022-12-26 07:42
Fifteen years after a Black teen was fatally shot by New York police has reached a multi-million-dollar settlement with the
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2022-12-26 07:36
Mississippi police fatally shot a woman who was holding a Walmart workers in the megastore hostage after she refused to
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2022-12-21 07:30
A Kentucky woman says she found the body of her missing daughter with the help of a psychic. According to
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2022-12-21 06:50
A Milwaukee County judge denied the request to lower the bail of a 10-year-old accused of fatally shooting his mother
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2022-12-21 06:47
NBA point guard Phoenix Suns point guard Chris Paul graduated from Winston-Salem State University on last week, and gifted $2,500 to every
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2022-12-20 07:38
Willie “Bill” Dawson, a World War II veteran from St. Louis, Missouri recently turned 108 years old. Dawson says his
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2022-12-20 07:06
A Brooklyn bishop who made headlines when he was robbed during a church service that was captured on a live
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2022-12-20 06:35
BET’s 106 & Park was one of the most popular music video countdown show during its era. Recently Hip-hop producer
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2022-12-19 07:54
Eugene James (Jacques) Bullard, the first African American combat aviator, was known as the “black swallow of death” for his courage
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2022-12-14 07:59
Georgia police have charged a woman in connection with a plan to scam families who recently had a death in
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2022-12-14 07:48
The CEO of Walmart recently said an increase in theft at the retail giant could cause stores to close and
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2022-12-14 07:00
Several nurses who worked at Emory University Hospital Midtown have been fired after a video posted on TikTok showed them
The post Georgia Nurses Fired and Face Backlash for Mocking Patients… Read More
2022-12-13 07:27
A sophomore Georgia Tech student in Atlanta, Georgia recently made history when he won almost $70,000 on Wheel of Fortune. Quincy
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2022-12-08 14:40
WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia freed WNBA star Brittney Griner on Thursday in a dramatic high-level prisoner exchange, as the U.S.
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2022-12-08 07:44
A fight took place during a women’s basketball game in Texas which lead to eight players kicked out of the
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2022-12-08 07:17
A Black woman recently posted on Twitter about her jounrey in finding her biological family. Lydia MacNair was able to
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2022-12-07 07:15
John Johnson, known as Grandmaster Jay, the leader of a Black militia organization has been sentenced to seven years in
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2022-12-07 07:13
A terminally ill Missouri teen’s last wish was to see “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” was able to happen before he
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2022-12-07 06:54
A Maryland woman ordered a drink from a Starbucks coffee franchise with the order slip where the customer’s name is
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2022-12-07 06:45
A student was found dead inside a car at Jackson State University in Mississippi on Dec. 2, according to WLBT News. Flynn Brown was found dead of
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2022-12-05 07:58
Ricky Dollison, a fourth-generation African American farmer who’s the owner of Dollison Farms located in Poulan, Georgia. Dollison is the
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2022-12-05 07:00
Deion Sanders is now headed to the Pac-12. Sanders told his team at Jackson State on Saturday night that he
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2022-12-05 07:00
In 1959, police were called to a segregated library when a Black 9-year old boy trying to check out books
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2022-12-05 06:51
9-year-old Brandoniya Bennett, from Dallas, Texas, was fatally shot inside her home in 2019. The shooter, Davonte Benton has been
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2022-12-02 07:48
Savage X Fenty, the lingerie line owned by Barbadian pop artist Rihanna, will pay $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit
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2022-11-30 07:50
An Maryland boy risked himself to save his 2-year-old sister in an apartment. La’Prentis Doughty Jr.’s family lost all of
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2022-11-30 07:18
Will Smith recently was interviewed by Trevor Noah on “The Daily Show,” where he broke down his new movie “Emancipation,”
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2022-11-30 07:00
A Texas man has started his GoFundMe after his ex-girlfriend allegedly burned his house down because she thought he was
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2022-11-29 07:55
CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) — Five days have passed since Lorenzo Gamble was killed in a mass shooting at a Walmart
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2022-11-29 07:05
A shooting on the campus of Florida A&M University (FAMU) has left one man dead and four other people injured.
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2022-11-29 06:30
Oregon’s athletic administration said Sunday it is gathering information after video surfaced showing Ducks outside linebacker DJ Johnson striking a person
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2022-11-28 07:44
Detroit police officers who fired 38 rounds at a 20-year-old Black man wielding a knife will not be charged for
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2022-11-28 07:18
Kyra Harris Bolden has been appointed to the Michigan Supreme Court, thus making history as the first Black woman to
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2022-11-28 06:45
JACKSON, Miss (AP) — The owners of a Mississippi apartment rental company have agreed to pay damages to four prospective
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2022-11-27 06:40
An 8th grade student Josiah Johnson was born without legs has recently made his middle school basketball team. Josiah Johnson who
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2022-11-22 07:34
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A fourth person wanted in the slaying of rapper Young Dolph turned himself in on Friday, Memphis police
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2022-11-22 07:07
Albany men’s basketball coach Dwayne Killings, athletic director Mark Benson, and the university are being sued by a former walk-on
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2022-11-22 07:00
After a school administrative hearing, Florida A&M University (FAMU) has decided to award a master’s degree to a student, who
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2022-11-22 06:12
A Missouri 10-year-old is been hailed a hero for helping her pregnant mom give birth to her baby sister at
The post 10-Year-Old Helped Her Mother Give Birth At Home first appeared on The Bla… Read More
2022-11-21 14:42
ATLANTA (AP) — A group of Black residents have filed a lawsuit claiming racial discrimination in a housing development associated
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2022-11-17 07:10
Twins died during Hurricane Nicole after both came into contact with a fallen power line last week were brother and sister, the
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2022-11-16 07:46
A Virginia woman says she was scammed out of $170,000 by a doctor she met on an online dating website.
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2022-11-16 07:43
Nick Cannon and Abby De La Rosa recently posted the news of their newborn child on Instagram last week. Their
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2022-11-16 07:20
A New Jersey mother is outraged after a neighbor called 911 on her daughter for spraying lanternflies in their neighborhood.
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2022-11-16 06:25
A Maryland Prince George’s County mother is asking for help finding the person who recently killed her 13-year-old son according
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2022-11-15 07:25
An unnamed Texas middle school teacher at a Pflugerville ISD middle school is “no longer employed” after video footage captured
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2022-11-15 07:02
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A University of Virginia student shot and killed three members of the school’s football team as
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2022-11-11 07:26
During the midterms election in one Texas county left a lot of voters frustrated with the entire voting process. There
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2022-11-10 07:55
A video captured shows a woman calling a University of Kentucky student racial slurs while verbally and physically assaulting is
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2022-11-10 07:28
Tennessee has officially banned all forms of slavery CBS News reported. On Tuesday approved a ballot that removes language allowing
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2022-11-10 07:08
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Democrat Wes Moore was elected Maryland’s first Black governor Tuesday, defeating Republican Dan Cox in a
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2022-11-10 06:19
Empire, Wyoming was an Black community founded in 1908 by Charles and Rosetta Speese along with three of Charles’ brothers—John,
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2022-11-09 07:57
Valerie LaVerne Thomas is a well-known scientist, mathematician, physicist, and inventor born on February 1, 1943 in Baltimore, Maryland. At
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2022-11-09 07:34
A 7th grade student at Buffalo Creek Academy in Buffalo, NY has recently went viral after he made the decsion
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2022-11-09 07:13
A North Carolina teenager was injured when she jumped from the back seat of a moving Lyft because of what
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2022-11-09 07:00
An Las Vegas 9-year-old girl applauded for her bravery after she escaped away from man who stole her mom’s car.
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2022-11-09 06:40
The prosecutor who decided not to press charges against a Missouri woman who fatally shot a firefighter has been receiving
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2022-11-08 07:44
Jonathan Jasper Wright, the first African American to serve on a state Supreme Court, was born in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. In 1858,
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2022-11-08 07:13
Five points district was originally the location of New York City’s first free Black settlement. By the 1850 the Five
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2022-11-08 05:57
The city of Whitesboro, New Jersey was established in 1902 as a town exclusively for Black Americans. The idea was
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2022-11-08 05:21
Sundown Towns are all-white communities, neighborhoods, or counties that exclude Black people and other minorities through the use of discriminatory
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2022-11-07 07:46
A California man was in prison for two decades for stealing $14. A drug addiction took many years of his
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2022-11-04 07:22
A Tennessee State University (TSU) professor has been fired after a video shows him screaming at student was made public.
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2022-11-04 07:07
A Kentucky entity responsible for caring for children who have been removed from their homes because of abuse and neglect
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2022-11-03 06:58
Two South Carolina sheriffs are denying claims that officers targeted a bus full of students from a historically Black university
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2022-11-03 06:28
An Illinois school board unanimously voted to fire a teacher captured on video allegedly calling a student a racial slur.
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2022-11-02 07:51
Hold off before throwing that porch pumpkin into the trash along with Halloween candy wrappers. Those jack-o’-lanterns don’t have to
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2022-11-02 07:50
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who spent more than 38 years behind bars for a 1983 murder and two
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2022-11-02 07:44
There’s an old saying that adversity makes you stronger. Real life shows that’s not always true, but the adage highlights
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2022-11-02 07:34
The music industry is mourning after Takeoff, one third of the Atlanta rap group Migos, was reportedly shot and killed
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2022-11-02 07:14
Georgia restaurant has issued an apology for its contentious Halloween decorations, that showed a person hanging from the ceiling by
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2022-11-01 07:04
An Ohio officer who shot a Black man firing celebratory gunshots in his backyard on New Year’s Day won’t face
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2022-11-01 07:01
A Michigan family is mourning two brothers who passed away in a house fire on Memorial Day weekend according to
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2022-10-31 07:58
A former Mississippi daycare worker was sentenced to prison and has been barred from working in a childcare facility again after
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2022-10-31 07:43
A video captures an assault showing what appears to be several teens and seemingly some adults shoving an older woman
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2022-10-31 07:27
Georgia sanitation employees after saving a woman from their trash truck. Dekalb County Commissioner Mereda Davis presented ZahMontay Cherry, Richard
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2022-10-31 06:14
90-year-old Thelma Jones from Southfield, Michigan recently earned her 5th-degree black belt in Isshinryu karate and she’s not planning to
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