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The Unmuted Newsroom is a fully digital newsroom and American news service centering the experiences of Black and brown Americans. In addition to customized wire service, UnmutedNews.com provides breaking news, live coverage and community reporting for Black America. Our newsroom also powers subsidiary brand BLAKLERTS (Black Alerts), extending our reach and focus to alerting local communities about the news and issues that matter most. Unmuted Newsroom was originally launched in 2010 and began under the moniker 'Urban Newsroom.'
Black Artists That Redefined the R&B Sound
Source: American Music Awards / Getty Rhythm and Blues has been a major staple in music, especially in shaping the history of Blac...
WTH Is Genre? 8 Times Black Artists Bent Sound
Source: For decades Black artists have defined genres, innovated genres, and even created them. From jazz to hip hop, they have bl...
Sybil Wilkes Covers Today’s What We Need to Know: Iran ...
✕ Sybil Wilkes is back with another edition of “What We Need to Know,” the daily roundup that keeps our community informed and rea...
Nina Simone, Sam Cooke, And What Black Artists Sacrific...
Source: June is, among other things, Black Music Month, and if we’re going to talk about Black music, we have to talk about protes...
Everything We Know About The Boyle Heights Fire
Source: Eric Thayer / Getty Last Wednesday, a fire started at a cold storage facility in Los Angeles’ Boyle Heights neighborhood. ...
Oprah Winfrey Recalls Whitney Houston’s Stage Fall: “I ...
Oprah Winfrey is sharing a previously untold story. Specifically, the media mogul revealed that Whitney Houston once fell off sta...
Judge Dismisses All Lawsuits Against Jay-Z’s Roc Nation...
Roc Nation has scored a legal victory. Specifically, a Texas judge dismissed all lawsuits brought against the company by attorney...
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani calls out anti-Black narrative...
NYC mayor Mamadani condemned efforts to use “Haitian” as a slur against Rep. Espaillat’s challenger, Darializa Avila Chevalier. Ah...
‘Jesus doesn’t want us to be perfect’: Romeo Miller ref...
The actor and father of three is opening up about the faith journey that led him to be baptized again.
Leslie Jones reflects on ‘SNL,’ stereotypes and being c...
The actress says the experience was rewarding but also came with creative challenges she couldn’t ignore. Comedian and actress Les...
Ketanji Brown Jackson slams Supreme Court ‘scheme’ in r...
“Prisoners like Landor who suffer violations of their religious freedom in state prisons—no matter how blatant—will often be left ...
Tennessee State guard Aaron Nkrumah looks to end the dr...
Tennessee State guard Aaron “AK” Nkrumah didn’t expect to even be at the NBA’s G League draft combine in May. Days before the even...