by October Gallery
ALTHOUGH NEARLY 10 PERCENT OF the United States’s population was African-American following World War II, you wouldn’t know it by listening to the radio, the main form of entertainment at…
On Wednesday, a House Judiciary subcommittee will hold the first congressional hearing in more than a decade on the subject of reparations. Ta-Nehisi Coates, the author of the 2014 essay…
MEMPHIS, TN (WMC) – The stained-glass ceiling has shattered, as Reverend Phoebe Roaf is poised to step into the shoes of retiring Bishop Don Johnson. “The fact that in a…
The “Middle Passage” refers to the horrific journey of enslaved Africans from their home continent to the Americas during the period of the transatlantic slave trade. Historians believe 15% of…
WASHINGTON — Kamala Harris has unveiled an ambitious set of policies as part of her presidential campaign that have a common theme: going it alone. The California senator is proposing…
A Baltimore Police Officer has been arrested and is facing multiple charges after he grabbed at an innocent passerby who merely offered his opinion about the detainment of another individual.…
Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi are the co-authors of Taking Up Space: The Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change, the second title from #Merky Books, a partnership between Penguin and grime…
KHARTOUM, Sudan — Once a camel trader who led a militia accused of genocidal violence in Darfur, Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan now sits at the pinnacle of power in Sudan,…
Black people — we need a better publicist,” the comedian Wanda Sykes declares in her new Netflix special, “Not Normal.” Ms. Sykes has just told the story of a black…
Amy Sherald is best-known for her serene rendering of former first lady Michelle Obama, which now lives in the National Portrait Gallery. But the truth of the matter is, Sherald…