What Cambridge University taught us about racism | The Guardian
Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi are the co-authors of Taking Up Space: The Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change, the second…
Sudan Ousted a Brutal Dictator. His Successor Was His Enforcer. | The New York Times
KHARTOUM, Sudan — Once a camel trader who led a militia accused of genocidal violence in Darfur, Lt. Gen. Mohamed…
Black Bodies, Green Spaces | The New York Times
Black people — we need a better publicist,” the comedian Wanda Sykes declares in her new Netflix special, “Not Normal.”…
Amy Sherald, who painted Michelle Obama’s portrait, designs a mural that turns a Philly teen into her own inspiration | Elizabeth Wellington | The Philadelphia Inquirer
Amy Sherald is best-known for her serene rendering of former first lady Michelle Obama, which now lives in the National…
Revealing the Lives of Black Fathers | The New York Times
When Robyn Price Pierre walked down the street with her husband and newborn baby, she often noticed the curious stares…
The FBI Admits Black Lives Matter Was Never a Threat. It’s White People You Should Be Worried About | The Root
Last week, as Donald Trump curtsied before the Queen; as Congressional Democrats continued to cower from their constitutional obligations; while…
“When They See Us” Shows How Black Slang Was Criminalized For The Central Park 5 & It Still Is Today | Bustle
Ava DuVernay’s new Netflix docuseries When They See Us depicts the heartbreaking story of the 1990 Central Park Five case…
Upper Marlboro, Maryland’s 1st Black Mayor Resigns Amidst Racist Bullying | Essence
The first Black mayor of Upper Marlboro, Maryland will be stepping down later this month, after stating that she has…
Elizabeth Cotten |Folkways – KOLUMN
Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten (1895-1987), best known for her timeless song “Freight Train,” built her musical legacy on a firm foundation…
Uzo Aduba To Play Shirley Chisholm In FX Limited Series, ‘Mrs. America’ | Blackfilm.com
Uzo Aduba is slated to play politician Shirley Chisholm FX’s upcoming limited series, Mrs. America, which will star Oscar winner…
Muslim Woman Investigated Her Own Hate Crime After NYPD Dismissed Her Case | HuffPost
A Muslim woman who was robbed and brutally beaten by a group of young people last month says the New…
Sculptor Augusta Savage’s Towering Impact on the Harlem Renaissance | Artsy
When I was in elementary school in the early 1990s, I would occasionally beg my mother for money to buy…
Black Woman-Owned Construction Firm Hired to Build New Terminals at JFK and Laguardia Airports | BlackBusiness.com
Being a woman in the male-dominated construction industry could be challenging for some. But for Cheryl McKissack Daniel, who is…
‘My Babies’: A Serial Killer’s Chilling Portraits of His Victims | Daily Beast
The serial killer’s recent portraits of women are markedly more expressionistic than his rendering of a smiling Betsy Ross in…
Civil rights pioneer, black Catholic educator wins Church’s highest honor | Crux
NEW YORK– Longtime civil rights leader and a pioneer in Catholic higher education, Norman Francis, will receive the nation’s oldest…
In diverse metro Atlanta, why are less than a quarter of homes black-owned? | Curbed
While many Atlantans consider the city a “Black Mecca,” a new report on African-American homeownership seems to paint a different…
COMMENTARY: U.S. Attempt to Erase Harriet Tubman | The Afro-American
With uniquely American hypocrisy, the Trump Treasury Department has pushed back the 2016 plan to put escaped slave and Underground…
New York City will be home to three new monuments honoring black women | NBC News
New York City will soon be home to three monuments that honor black women and their historical contributions. Announcing the…
Ebony photo archive to be auctioned to pay creditors | NBC News
The photo archive of Ebony Magazine that chronicles African American life is to go on the auction block in July…
André De Shields just won his first Tony at 73. Here are 5 facts on his epic career | Los Angeles Times
Mr. André De Shields capped a 50-year acting career by scoring his first Tony Award on Sunday, winning best featured…
How An Innovative Gym Is Changing Lives In This Poor Minneapolis Neighborhood | HuffPost
Like any gym, there are weights and machines, and an impressive number of metal frames made to jump on, if…
Ta-Nehisi Coates Revisits the Case for Reparations | The New Yorker
It’s not often that an article comes along that changes the world, but that’s exactly what happened with Ta-Nehisi Coates,…
Afropean: Capturing The Experience Of Black Women In Europe | Refinery29
Johny Pitts was born into a working class home in Sheffield at the same time Maggie Thatcher was in Number…
GOP Lied About Using Racial Data To Gerrymander, Lawyers Say | HuffPost
North Carolina Republicans lied to a federal court in 2017 when they claimed that they didn’t use racial data about…
The Man They Called ‘Trane’, Remembering A Jazz Giant | uDiscoverMusic
John Coltrane died on 17 July 1967 having given more to jazz in his 40 years than many who live…
Sanaa Lathan Admits She Was ‘Miserable’ While Filming ‘Love & Basketball’ | Essence
Love & Basketball has become a cult classic in the repertoire of Black films to which we know all the…
Report: Wrongful convictions have stolen at least 20,000 years from innocent defendants | The Washington Post
The National Registry of Exonerations (NRE) will soon publish the second part of a study it commissioned of its database…
Depression in Black Boys Begins Earlier Than You Think | Psychological Benefits Society
From 2001 to 2015, the suicide risk for Black boys between the ages of 5 and 11 was two to…
NBCBLK Oregon bill cracks down on racially motivated 911 calls | NBC News
Oregon moved to crack down on racially motivated 911 calls on Monday, responding to a series of publicized incidents across…
[VIDEO] Celebrating Black History: Incredible innovations | Fox 8 Cleveland
CLEVELAND– African American inventors have made their mark not just on history, but the things that make our lives easier…
Obamas jump into booming podcast business with Spotify partnership | Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle entered the booming podcast business on Thursday,…
The rise of Angela ‘Overkill’ Hill | The Undefeated
Lonnae O’Neal, The Undefeated Angela “Overkill” Hill, the UFC’s first African American female signee, doesn’t take chances lightly. The 34-year-old…
World War II veteran calls honorable discharge from Army to correct an ‘injustice’ nearly 75 years later ‘a miracle’ | Chicago Tribune
PHILADELPHIA World War II veteran Nelson Henry Jr. never thought he would see the day the Army would correct his…
Robert Smith’s Real Gift to Morehouse | The Atlantic
In 1969, Denver began busing a small contingent of black children across town to a better-resourced white elementary school. “Every…
Homeschooled Genius Haley Taylor Schlitz, Age 16, Accepted Into 9 Law Schools | Diversity Inc.
Haley Taylor Schlitz is the epitome of excellence. The 16-year-old Texan and college senior who graduates in May from the…
Lawrence Leathers, Jazz Drummer on Grammy-Winning Albums, Found Dead After Assault | The New York Times
A celebrated jazz drummer known for his crisply swinging style was found dead on Sunday in a Bronx stairwell, and…
Fighting Germans and Jim Crow: Role of Black Troops on D-Day | Military.com
BATON ROUGE, La. — It was the most massive amphibious invasion the world has ever seen, with tens of thousands…
‘I Had to Invest In Myself’: Serena Williams Becomes First Athlete Named on World’s Richest Self-Made Women List | Atlanta Black Star
Kiersten Willis, Atlanta Black Star Women working at sewing machines in factory. Pic credit: Sleek Garments Export Ltd. Featured Image…
Activists say new Tennessee law aims to suppress African American votes | The Guardian
Tequila Johnson lists off laundromats, nightclubs and churches. Those are the places her team of 150 volunteers visited during the…
Jay-Z named world’s first billionaire rapper by Forbes magazine | The Guardian
Jay-Z has been named the world’s first billionaire rapper in a new Forbes cover story. The magazine has claimed the…
WATCH: Lawmakers, Advocates Center Black Women on National Women and Girls HIV Awareness Day | Colorlines
Catherine Lizette Gonzalez, Colorlines March 10, on National Women and Girls HIV AIDS Awareness Day, advocates and lawmakers stand in…
Ghana is producing more female entrepreneurs than any other country | Face2face Africa
The rise of women in entrepreneurship is not necessarily associated with the pace of their country’s wealth and economic development…
UAB student selected for prestigious national fellowship | Birmingham Times
After a week of interviews in legislative offices on Capitol Hill, Sandra Cutts, a University of Alabama at Birmingham School…
Aboriginals to bag billions of dollars in compensation for spiritual harm and land in Australia | Face2face Africa
Aboriginals in Australia who were stripped of land rights should be compensated for “spiritual harm”, a landmark ruling by Australia’s…
The American social revolution after slavery: Incredible photographs from 1900 Paris exhibition showed the world that African Americans were now musicians, lawyers and scientists | Daily Mail
Incredible photos from the turn of the 20th century were included in a bold and spectacular Parisian exhibit designed to…
Before Kaepernick, The ‘Syracuse 8’ Were Blackballed By Pro Football | WBUR
They met in secret, away from their white coaches and teammates. “We used to meet at midnight,” former Syracuse football…
Africa Produces 75% of Cocoa But Gets 2% of $100b Chocolate Market Revenue | Ghana Business News
For centuries, the economies of African countries have been made dependent on advanced economies, and despite the enormous amount of…
Leah Chase, Creole Chef Who Fed Presidents and Freedom Riders, Dies at 96 | The New York Times
Leah Chase, the nation’s pre-eminent Creole chef, always knew what to feed her famous customers. The Rev. Martin Luther King…
When African Americans are killed by police, these lawyers get a phone call | CNN
CNN Civil rights attorney L. Chris Stewart was sitting in church in Atlanta on an April Sunday in 2015 when…
Inside One Woman’s 7 Year Journey to Photograph Every Native American Tribe | Elle
One night, after a day spent photographing Indigenous corn farmers high up in the Andes mountains, Matika Wilbur was visited…
The Forgotten Tale of How Black Psychiatrists Helped Make ‘Sesame Street’ | The Daily Beast
In the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, a newly formed group called…
The-Pieces-I-Am | The Philadelphia Sun
The Philadelphia Sun Staff, The Philadelphia Sun Toni Morrison. Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker. Photo by Bettman/Corbis. Featured Image Toni…
3 Questions with ‘Miles Davis’ Documentarian Stanley Nelson | Colorlines
The title of Stanley Nelson’s latest documentary, “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool,” references both the artist’s 1957 jazz album…
‘First time in history’: 50 percent women in South Africa cabinet | Al Jazeera
South Africa‘s President Cyril Ramaphosa has brought the numbers of women appointed in his new cabinet up to 50 percent…
Lupita Nyong’o Unveils the Cover for New Book, ‘Sulwe’ | Colorlines
When Lupita Nyong’o’s powerful 2014 speech about how colorism affected her as a child went viral, she realized she could…
Southern Culture Foods Founder and Chef Shares Her Recipe for Success with You | Black Enterprise
You’ve probably scrolled past editorial stylized dishes on your favorite food blog or on social media. But it’s not every…
Rory Doyle: Challenging the Cowboy Culture with the Delta Hill Riders | The Phoblographer
Among the challenges for today’s documentary photographers is to tell the story of those who challenge the norms, and shed…
This Is What It’s Like to Be a Mom at 10 and Married at 11 in Florida | Global Citizen
Sherry Johnson is a child marriage survivor, an author, and an activist. At age 11, she was forced to marry…
A Forgotten Presidential Candidate From 1904 | NPR
Despite what you read in some history books — such as the Biographical Dictionary of Congressional Women — Rep. Shirley…
Smithsonian’s new secretary, Lonnie Bunch III, faces political and financial challenges | The Washington Post
Lonnie G. Bunch III — the founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture —…