So they told him. They’d first encountered each other on a website called BlackPlanet. To the 5-year-old, the answer seemed fantastical. “He clearly didn’t hear ‘website,’ ” Williams ...

Time magazine has inked a deal with BlackPlanet.com to provide stories targeted at U.S. ethnic audiences throughout Black History Month. Under the deal, which will be announced Monday, BlackPlanet ...

In addition to BlackPlanet.com, CCI owns and operates a number of social-networking brands under its umbrella including MiGente.com and AsianAve.com. “Radio One has been interested in expanding ...

Interactive One, the leading urban digital media company behind the iconic African-American portal Blackplanet (www.blackplanet.com) today announced a partnership with Reach Media, the parent ...

Just when you thought Solange couldn’t get any Blacker, she went and found her BlackPlanet login. Solange announced a BlackPlanet takeover on Instagram and Twitter, sending social media into a ...

BlackPlanet is an African-American social networking service, started as a place for matchmaking and job postings but also has forums for discussion on political and social issues. Wikipedia* On ...

But before today's popular networks allowed you to "like" posts, "poke" crushes, or "retweet" celebrities, web-savvy African Americans were connecting on BlackPlanet. Founded in 1999 by self ...

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 for Black people on the web ...

It's been 20 years since African-American social networking site BlackPlanet first launched and paved the way for sites like MySpace and Facebook, and thanks to Solange’s announcement, fans are ...