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Labor strikes electrified 2023. Here are Black women who have helped empower workers to secure better pay and work conditions across the country.
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The multi-talented artist, architect, and author Peju Alatise recently inaugurated Rele Gallery, the first and only contemporary African art gallery on Dover Street.
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The six students have been charged with threat to commit a crime. Two of them have been charged with civil rights interference and one with witness interference.
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This bill not only defunds DEI offices and staff, but it also bans race-based scholarships. Additionally, it prohibits the approval degrees requiring courses that contain “discriminatory concepts.”
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Cheryl White’s younger brother Raymond White co-authored a book to ensure that people remember her legacy. He traveled to Minnesota to share her story with members of an equestrian program for BIPOC youth.
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“We need to basically unlearn a lot of the things that we have normalized and [realize] that a new way is possible,” says award-winning author Rahiel Tesfamariam.
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A new crime bill that passed in the nation’s capital shows we’re still in an era of “tough on crime” Black politicians, but at what cost?
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“I have the honor of serving the people of the great state of Alabama in the United States Senate. However, that’s not the job that matters most. I’m a proud wife and mom of two school-aged kids,” said Britt from her kitchen.
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The price of streaming is getting “too damn high.” But Destah, a new and completely free service, is aiming to disrupt the Industry.
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The Houstonian Black real estate investors filed the federal lawsuit after they said they were prohibited from buying condos in community advertised to Asian buyers.
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Senate Bill S6528 will take full effect in April requiring all cosmetology students in New York state to now learn how to style textured hair.
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Before he was fatally shot last year during a traffic stop, Leonard Cure spent 16 years in a Florida prison for a crime he didn’t commit before being exonerated in 2020.
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Born in 1909, Elizabeth Francis is also the fifth-oldest person in the world. She has survived both World Wars, two pandemics, and lived through segregation to see our nation’s first Black president.
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Although sometimes overshadowed by neighboring cities, Baltimore is having a moment.
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Actor/activist Kendrick Sampson, elected officials Charles and Inez Barron, and professor Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly discuss the promise of a Black, radical future.
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On December 11, 1917, Black soldiers were hanged in what is considered to be “the single largest mass execution of American soldiers by the Army.” More than a century later, the U.S. Army has acknowledged that racial discrimination played a part in their trials.
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While the rest of us recognized Black History Month, the DEA instead chose to celebrate President Nixon, who infamously weaponized federal policy that targeted Black communities.
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A new hearing in a case where a Black man received a death sentence from an almost all-white jury will challenge 134 other death penalty sentences under the Racial Justice Act.
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The gun industry is getting away with murder and it’s exponentially harming Black families, says Moms Demand Action Executive Director Angela Ferrell-Zabala.
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In the 1950s, Silas White owned a valuable plot of land before the City of Santa Monica seized it citing eminent domain.
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Given that prisons are essentially a modern-day reincarnation of slavery for many Black people, this new wedding venue trend is problematic.
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