By Black Headline News https://vimeo.com/935649924?share=copy In this episode of the BHN Talk Radio Show, April 23, 2024 with Cheryl Smith, Julia Ann Dudley Najieb and Brigitte Jones, the breaking news starts with Rev. Frederick Haynes III who has stepped down from the organization Rainbow Push; less than a year ago, the organization’s founder and CEO, longtime civil and human rights activist, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, announced his retirement and named Dr. Haynes as his successor. The 22 year-old Naveen Daries has been an inspirational figure for aspiring young South African gymnasts&n ..read more

By Black Headline News https://vimeo.com/932738671?share=copy In this episode of the BHN Talk Radio Show, April 16, 2024 with Cheryl Smith, Julia Ann Dudley Najieb and Brigitte Jones, the breaking news starts with the Texas cosmetology teacher Kedria Grigsby conspiring to do an under-age, sex-trafficking ring with her son using vulnerable students from the school where she was employed; she was arrested on charges related to child sex-trafficking and juvenile prostitution. The next news item discussed include Orenthal James Simpson (July 9, 1947 – April 10, 2024) who was an American footb ..read more

With the addition of GFNTV at the beginning of 2024, Black Headline News is expanding its viewership globally By Black Headline News As Black-owned network, GFNTV now carries Black Headline News (BHN) as of February 2024, BHN is also expanding its offerings globally through FAST channel partnerships. FreeCast and Info Media Distribution are announcing a partnership bringing BHN to FreeCast’s free streaming service. The African American news and commentary channel joins hundreds of free FAST channels already available on the service, and joins FreeCast as the aggregated streaming platform co ..read more

By Black Headline News In this episode of the BHN Talk Radio Show, April 9, 2024, Cheryl Smith, Julia Ann Dudley Najieb and Brigitte Jones discuss the worldwide event of the total solar eclipse.  Smith expounded on the experience in Dallas, Texas as she was present when the total solar eclipse passed through her area. The news publisher hosts also remember Louis Gossett Jr. (1936-2024) for his activism in acting. The news show hosts revisit a similar news article concerning the Black influence on country music and its roots. Finally, the BHN Talk Radio Show team discuss the latest verdic ..read more

By Black Headline News In this episode of BHN Talk Radio Show with Cheryl Smith, Julia Ann Dudley Najieb and Brigitte Jones, the news publishers talk about the latest breaking news concerning a publisher who has fallen ill. Smith talks about honoring six dynamic individuals April 2nd on behalf of Texas Metro News. Hosts also talk about Shirley Chisholm and the latest Netflix movie out about her. Then the news hosts delved into the results of the latest election primaries. With news publishers, Cheryl Smith, Julia Ann Dudley Najieb and Brigitte Jones, get the latest breaking, political and ..read more

By Black Headline News In this episode of Black Headline News Talk Radio Show with Julia Ann Dudley Najieb, Brigitte Jones and Cheryl Smith, the news team reviews the breaking news and ongoing crisis in Haiti and the consequences with the power shutting off in significant parts of the country. In the next segment, the news team reviews the past Super Tuesday primary election results that occurred on March 5 and on March 12 ..read more

By Manu Lekunze (Special to BHN) Lecturer Manu Lekunze of University of Aberdeen is an international security scholar with an interest in small wars. He has been studying Cameroon’s security for a decade. He recently published research on the factors that have contributed to the separatist insurgency. Cameroon’s separatist insurgency is an armed conflict in the country’s North West (NW) and South West (SW) regions that began in 2017. It pits government forces against several non-state armed groups, locally known as “Amba rebels”. The rebels seek to create a state called Ambazonia out of C ..read more

By Glen Jankowski (Special to BHN) Hair loss is common in men and women, particularly with age – for example, androgenetic alopecia (or pattern baldness) affects 80% of men and 40% of women. For the most part, it can be physically inconsequential. Yet, modern society has a distaste for hair loss. Look at how news stories have speculated about whether ten-year-old Prince George and his younger brother, Louis, will inherit their father’s “baldness genes”. The market in hair restoration procedures is projected to be worth £10 billion by 2026. You can even purchase wigs for babies that procl ..read more

By Ateqah Khaki, Dannielle Piper, and Vinita Srivastava (Special to BHN) On Sunday, nine years after #OscarsSoWhite, millions of us tuned into watch the 96th annual Academy Awards — some to simply take in the spectacle. And some to see how much had changed. The hashtag #OscarsSoWhite started after many people noticed that, for a second year in a row, all nominees for four of five major categories were white. The movement called on Hollywood to do better: to better reflect America’s demographic realities and also to expand its depiction of our histories. The reason: representation in Hollywood ..read more

By Elizabeth Hinds-Hueglin, David Mitterauer, and Patrick Kinghan (Special to BHN) https://youtu.be/ZBDvF9DCq9cAfua Cooper speaks about ‘A Black People’s History of Canada.’ As research associates on the Black Londoners Project at Western University,  Elizabeth Hinds-Hueglin, David Mitterauer, and Patrick Kinghan are finding historical clues about people like Aurelia Jones and exploring the Black history of London, Ont., by using a digital mapping approach. This methodology helps to understand the movements of individual people and how these movements, in turn, reveal connections within c ..read more