Black Lives Matter once unified America. Now, its chapters are divided on progress
In the summer of 2020, following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the movement for Black lives galvanized racial…
Black Educator Creates Program Teaching Kids to Read in 40 Hours
A Black educator named Rosa Higgs has made reading easier for Black students in America. She created the Phonics workbook series “Read…
Major New Project to Document the Cultural Impact of UK Record Stores & Black Music
A major new project that explores the cultural impact of UK independent record stores, specializing in Black music from 1950…
Advance school choice, because Black minds matter, too
Earlier this month, we celebrated the new federal holiday of Juneteenth, to celebrate the newfound freedom our people gained after…
One of the world’s largest festivals of Black culture is devoting a day to Nollywood for the first time
For the first time, Essence Fest – which has been celebrating African American culture in the United States for more…
US Supreme Court’s Two Black Justices Clash Over Affirmative Action Ruling
When liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson became the first Black woman to join the U.S. Supreme Court, she was expected…
Ungrateful: The Silence of Some African Immigrants in the face of U.S Police Lynching
On May 25th, 2020 George Floyd, an African American man, was suffocated to death in Minneapolis by Derek Chauvin, a…
Mississippi farms pay overdue wages for favoring immigrants over local Black workers, agency says
Forty-four farms in Mississippi exploited local Black workers by paying higher wages to immigrants who were in the United States…