Black families in the South are doing important work to continue the legacy of Black farming communities. Shirley Sherrod co-founded New Communities, a Black farming…
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Supreme Court tosses out Curtis Flowers’s conviction in sixth trial of 1996 murders, citing racial bias. Curtis Giovanni Flowers, left, listens to testimony in his…
Officers threatened to shoot the black parents over allegations their four-year-old child shoplifted a doll. Mayor Gallego wrote on Twitter that the incident made her…
For Black people, whose donor pool is exceptionally small, addressing racism in the medical profession is crucial to finding solutions. Every week for the past…
The Hands Up Act could do something about it. Since the police killings of Botham Jean in Dallas and Emantic “E.J.” Bradford in Birmingham, Alabama,…
Muhlaysia Booker found dead in Texas on Saturday, about a month after she was assaulted in an attack caught on video. Muhlaysia Booker is the…
From Harry Potter to the Hunger Games, the worlds of fantasy in fiction and film are mostly White. This limitation is more influential than we…
Author Dani McClain wants us to stop pathologizing Black mothers’ experiences in this country. I first became a mother at 20 years old and was…
Infertility affects Black women twice as much as other women—and they’re less likely to seek assistance. Lately, more light has been shed on the risks…
Raising the profile of Black birders could help foster a healthy connection between Black communities and the natural world. Tiffany Adams grew up in the…
Race Women on Instagram spotlights generations of Black women trailblazers. Have you heard of Rosetta Douglass Sprague? I hadn’t. Then I came across a black-and-white…
In Louisville, the group is purchasing vacant homes for low-income families to promote stability in the community and fight gentrification. In May, Tiffany Brown and…
James Jackson, who stabbed Timothy Caughman to death in March 2017, has pleaded guilty to murder as an act of terrorism. James Harris Jackson appears…
Relatives of Laquan McDonald, killed in 2014, call ruling step backwards for black community’s fight for justice. Reverend Marvin Hunter: ‘To say that these men…
Black women have been poorly represented in the mainstream. So a new yearlong fellowship prepares women to redefine the stories that are being told and…
The Runway Project is making entrepreneurship more accessible to Black communities. Richmond, California, native April Fenall didn’t grow up with aspirations of becoming an entrepreneur.…
Ontario rights watchdog report says the city’s black citizens are disproportionately discriminated against by police. The report also criticised stop-and-search processes and police response to…
A national network of financial cooperatives is helping marginalized groups keep their money out of an extractive banking system. Me’Lea Connelly is from the Bay…
1. Pixie Dust, Pixie Love Who doesn’t adore the pixie cut? This is definitely a favourite among the list of hairstyles for black women. It…
Prosecutors say shooting that left two African Americans dead in the US state is being probed as possible hate crime. Gregory Bush, 51, has been…