Why wont my 'background' render? I'm having this problem in Blender that it is only loading the text, I am very new to this and don't know why it is cutting out what is even in the camera view and making it black. If you could help me, I would really appreciate it. 

It's only rendering 'Kenny Miller" and not the green/black back:

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Empties have no geometry

You are using an Empty object to display the image (you can that from the icon in the outliner), but as stated by the manual:


  The “Empty” is a null object. It contains no real Geometry, [...]


This means that the object has no faces, no materials, so the engine has nothing to render. What you see in the viewport is just a "gizmo", useful to work with but has no influence on the rendered image.

The Image-Empties can be useful to quickly put some movable references in the scene. If you want to render the image, I would suggest to use the Images as plane add-on, that starting from an image create a true object in the scene.