Portraiture serves many purposes in “Project a Black Planet.” Seminal figures in the history of Pan-Africanism are introduced, beginning with 18th century precursor Toussaint L’Ouverture ...

“BlackPlanet was both ahead of its time and unfortunately not far enough ahead of its time,” she said. The site was full of delays, and the mobile option seemed all but unusable.

BlackPlanet Next, the new iteration of the 12-year-old mainstay, has been redesigned into a social curation engine targeting African-American consumers.

One chilly Chicago afternoon, I planned an outing with my cousin to check out the latest exhibit at The Art Institute: Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of PanAfrica. Admittedly, I was ...

When James Franco wants to make a movie with you, say yes. That’s what David Shields did, and the result is “Return to Black Planet,” scheduled to debut in early 2015. The film is based on ...

BlackPlanet was a social networking site co-founded by Omar Wasow's Community Connect company in 1999. The site consisted of not only personal pages, forums and chat rooms but also job boards.

But Black Planet, Marcus’s farcical in-the-moment idea to Galvin, was picked up by a major studio. The best and brightest stars were in it, and Marcus wanted to meet them and say he was the one who ...

BlackPlanet, the pioneering social media platform created in 1999, has released a documentary exploring its rise and impact on what social media is today.

A hateful vandal scrawled multiple swastikas and the phrase “Fear Black Planet” on an East Harlem construction mural, cops said Thursday. The suspect left his mark on a fence where a mural was ...

Iconic rap group Public Enemy is the focus of a new art show opening soon celebrating the 30th anniversary of Fear Of A Black Planet, the band’s classic 1990 album which contained table-shaking ...