A few years ago, Stephanie Williams and her husband fielded a question from their son: How had they met? So they told him. They’d first encountered each other on a website called BlackPlanet. To the 5 ...

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

Thanks to Kevin Durant, BlackPlanet was the talk of social media Sunday. Those of us who aren’t millennials remember a world with BlackPlanet, before there were Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Snapchat ...

Social media has become an integral part of our lives, and a new documentary from BlackPlanet examines the platform’s role in helping to create a space for the Black community to maximize its presence ...

Solange set the internet ablaze with the announcement that she’s back and “taking over” BlackPlanet, the O.G. social media site that Black folks frequented in the 90s. The Grammy-award winning artist ...

With its acquisition of Community Connect Inc. (CCI) for $38 million, Lanham, Maryland-based Radio One Inc. is expanding its Internet reach by adding the popular community networking Website ...

On February 26th 2019, Solange Knowles, one of the most prolific artists of our generation, leveraged her platform to breathe life back into one of the first homes ...

One of the first social networking Web sites on the Web, BlackPlanet.com recently witnessed a major facelift with BlackPlanet Next, including easier ways to connect and interact on one of the Web’s ...

Black users have created trends and agitated for change on social media for years. Think April Reign and #OscarsSoWhite. Even the Black Lives Matter movement itself, which was born in a Facebook post ...

Prepare your entire being for some music magic, because Solange Knowles's new album may be on its way. And if it is not her new album? Well, something major seems to be happening, so it's still a good ...