by October Gallery
If you loved the hit show Reading Rainbow, you’ll be happy to know that LeVar Burton will be livestreaming his podcast, “LeVar Burton Reads” on Twitter. NBCBLK recently reported that…
The head of the World Health Organization, Ethiopian microbiologist Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said he has received death threats and racist insults while running the global efforts to fight the coronavirus…
Black people are being disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. Now, lawyers, lawmakers, and medical professionals alike are calling on the government to collect and release daily racial and ethnic…
A Bronx state lawmaker who used to work as a nurse has ditched her business attire for a pair of scrubs to join healthcare workers on the frontlines of the…
On April 10, 1956, African American singer and pianist Nat King Cole was performing before an all-white audience of 4000 at the Municipal Auditorium in Birmingham, Alabama, when he was…
In 1949, four young black men were arrested and accused of rape in Groveland, Florida. The case, which hinged on the allegation of a young white woman with inconsistent stories…
A $500,000 grant from the National Park service will be used to renovate buildings along Tulsa’s former Black Wall Street. TULSA, OKLA. (AP) — A $500,000 grant from the National…
Priority Africa Network facilitates a series of discussions designed to strengthen ties between new black immigrants and existing African-American communities. African Diasporic Relationship status: complicated. The origins of the African…
The administration’s policies have exacerbated the health conditions that are leading to more coronavirus fatalities among black Americans. Trump administration officials — including President Donald Trump himself — have increasingly…
WHY YOU SHOULD CAREBecause this extraordinary World War I soldier is still being left out of the story 100 years later. You never know who you’re sharing an elevator with…