Released January 2019

The social media star explained his rise to stardom and new show “Hiking With Rappers” in a wide-ranging hilarious interview.

Donald Prophete Jr. is the Haitian-American mastermind behind the incredible image that represented Black women at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The artist speaks about the inspiration of the design which was sparked by the women in his life, as well as track stars Sha’Carri Richardson and Flo Jo.

He says the idea for design, which went viral just ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, came to him while he was driving. He wanted to highlight the Bamboo earring trend of hip hop culture. He credits Black cultural icons like stylist Misa Hylton and designer Virgil Abloh who impact the storytelling of his art.

Prophete shared his career trajectory, including illustrating for Wale and what he hopes to accomplish with his work in the future.

Blacktag, a revolutionary new social platform specifically for Black creators, is the product of two innovators coming together to spark change.



Black creators have faced a slew of challenges, from bias in algorithms to not receiving credit for their contributions to viral trends. Blacktag strives to support the Black community and the Black creators they believe in. The platform's founders, Ousman Sahko Sow and Akin Adebowale, join BNC digital producer Alyssa Wilson to discuss Blacktag's goals and plans for impact.



For more information on Blacktag and its founders, visit https://bnc.tv/by-us-for-us-blacktag-...

Arizona State University Ph.D. candidate Sarra Tekola speaks exclusively with BNC's Alyssa Wilson about their experiences with racism on the campus. On Sep. 23, 2021, Tekola and another student activist confronted a group of white students accused of intimidating a Black study group. After the incident, Tekola was charged for violating the school's code of conduct and they began to receive thousands of threats, requiring the need for personal security.

BNC reached out to Arizona State University for comment and has not heard back.

Some people view Black men in a negative light.

A new project created by two Black men is on a mission to change societal narratives about the group by telling the stories of 1,000 different Black men. Gabriel Andrews and Michael Anderson, the producers of "A Hero of a Thousand Faces," spoke with BNC's Alyssa Wilson to discuss the project, their inspiration, and an episode selected by the American Black Film Festival.

The Defense is the story of a neurotic young woman’s run from death and heartbreak while learning to love again.

Lindsay Perry says pandemic boredom led her toward a new tasty hobby: wine. Now, the sports marketing professional is headed on a new, delicious journey.

Murphy-Goode Winery selected Perry and one other woman out of 7,000 applicants from around the world to be the winners of its “Really Goode Job” competition. They’ll be paid $10,000 a month to learn about wine and be gifted with a year of free wine and rent! (Jealous yet?)

Perry says her friends and family kept urging her to apply for the competition. After receiving a few articles about it, she decided to do a little research. She says she had never tasted Murphy-Goode wine before applying. She decided she needed a creative way to set herself apart from other applicants.

The company announced that Perry’s creativity and humor ultimately won them over. In her audition video, Perry gives a hilarious nod to Elle Woods’ Harvard video essay from the film Legally Blonde, saying she can “recall wine facts at the drop of a hat!”

Kairos campaign director, Jelani Drew-Davi, sits down with BNC to talk about the organization working on an initiative to get people to log out of their Facebook accounts in November.

"We really saw this moment in time as different. We've seen how Facebook has been directly harming our children, our society, our democracy and people are really desperate to take action," they said. Without us, Facebook is nothing."

The world has almost entered its third year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Citizens of the United States shouldn't expect any more help from the federal government in 2022. Economists say much of Congress' relief packages have now been spent. Congress authorized relief packages totaling $5.7 trillion in 2020 and 2021. Now, amid the onset of the highly-contagious Omicron variant, experts say less help is on the way than ever before.