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By Janice Gassam, Forbes America is finally waking up from its 400-year slumber and an honest acknowledgement of racism is happening. The public’s opinion on Black Lives Matter has shifted…
By George Hunter, The Detroit News Detroit — Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy plans to regularly release to the public the names of police officers who are unable to testify…
She was one of the “unofficial” slate of Black Mississippians who sought to displace the nonrepresentative all-white delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. By Sam Roberts, The New York…
By Matthew Green, KQED The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday afternoon to permanently end the practice of charging those in county jail for phone calls, and to…
A 15-year-old in Michigan was incarcerated during the coronavirus pandemic after a judge ruled that not completing her schoolwork violated her probation. “It just doesn’t make any sense,” said the…
By Derek Major, Black Enterprise Thirty-one percent of children in Florida have tested positive for the new coronavirus, worrying health officials who say that the long-term effects of the virus…
With The Old Guard, the Love & Basketball director shows how she’s continuing to fight for Black women in Hollywood. By Olivia Truffaut-Wong, Bustle Gina Prince-Bythewood has been fighting for…
By Kelly Richman-Abdou, My Modern Met In the early 20th century, a remarkable renaissance emerged in Harlem. On the historic heels of the Great Migration, a mass exodus of over…
By Black Enterprise Editors, Black Enterprise Meet Alyson Rae Lawson, the African American owner of a 7-Eleven franchise in Arlington, Texas who is making history and winning big while setting…
By EJI Staff, EJI On July 18, 1863, the 54th Massachusetts Infantry — the nation’s first all-Black infantry unit — stormed South Carolina’s Fort Wagner, which guarded the Port of…