Malaika Jabali

We’re celebrating ESSENCE Fashion House, strutting through Fashion Week, and reflecting on iconic Black style moments that made a statement.

We’re celebrating Labor Day getting to know Black leaders who fought for everything from pay equity to ending job discrimination.

It's important to note that though June 19th commemorates the collective emancipation of enslaved Black people, we essentially freed ourselves.

Labor strikes electrified 2023. Here are Black women who have helped empower workers to secure better pay and work conditions across the country.

“We say that [beyond saying] no to racism, we need to say yes to racial equality,” states Génot, President and Executive Director of the Identity Institute of Brazil.

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.

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.”

Author Shayla Lawson discusses their new memoir and the quest for liberation.

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.

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?

The price of streaming is getting “too damn high.” But Destah, a new and completely free service, is aiming to disrupt the Industry.

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.

Actor/activist Kendrick Sampson, elected officials Charles and Inez Barron, and professor Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly discuss the promise of a Black, radical future.

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.

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.

The gun industry is getting away with murder and it’s exponentially harming Black families, says Moms Demand Action Executive Director Angela Ferrell-Zabala.

In the 1950s, Silas White owned a valuable plot of land before the City of Santa Monica seized it citing eminent domain.

Given that prisons are essentially a modern-day reincarnation of slavery for many Black people, this new wedding venue trend is problematic.

The state of Maryland approved the UMES program for veterinary medicine in January, and the school will join Tuskegee University as the only other HBCU that offers such a program in the country.

The State University of New York has launched the Dr. Hazel Dukes Fellowship. The initiative is aimed at elevating current and emerging leaders who share her passion for advancing civil rights.