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Yasiin Bey and The Alchemist’s Super Duo Announces First Album

Yasiin Bey and The Alchemist are teaming up as a...

Two Black Mompreneurs Collaborate, Launch New Thrive Culture Box For Black Children

Nationwide — Parents and other family members can...

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In a Poignant New Novel, Darryl E. Moss Explores the Depths of Love, Resilience, and Legacy

Douglasville, GA. — In Love is a Journey. Not a Destination, author Darryl E. Moss crafts a vivid, heartfelt portrait of Black love, family, and the complex interplay between vulnerability and...

Yasiin Bey and The Alchemist’s Super Duo Announces First Album

Yasiin Bey and The Alchemist are teaming up as a rap duo, and they’re set to release...

Two Black Mompreneurs Collaborate, Launch New Thrive Culture Box For Black Children

Nationwide — Parents and other family members can now give children ages four and up...

Black Woman-Owned CreditRich Opens Historic $100M Investment Round at $1B Valuation and Welcomes New Board Member Rudy Terrazas

Nationwide — CreditRich, the first Black woman-owned neo-bank, that allows users to round up their...

Congressional Black Caucus Elects Leadership for 119th Congress Amid Record Membership Growth

Washington, D.C. — The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) announced its newly elected Executive Committee leadership...

Mary McLeod Bethune, known as the ‘First Lady of Negro America,’ also sought to unify the African diaspora

Ashley Robertson Preston, Howard University When I first landed an internship as an archives technician at the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House-National Historic Site –...

Shortage of Black doctors is rooted in racist history − a $600M gift will help historically Black medical schools address the gap

Benjamin Chrisinger, Tufts University Fueled by the Supreme Court’s June 2023 ruling that bans affirmative action in higher education, conservative lawmakers across the country have...

Paying reparations for slavery is possible – based on a study of federal compensation to farmers, fishermen, coal miners, radiation victims and 70 other groups

Linda J. Bilmes, Harvard Kennedy School and Cornell William Brooks, Harvard Kennedy School As Americans celebrate Juneteenth, legislation for a commission to study reparations for...

2024 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index: Identity Attacks Strain Recovery Time for Breaches in Middle East and Africa

IBM released the 2024 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index highlighting an emerging global identity crisis as cybercriminals double down on exploiting user identities to compromise enterprises worldwide.  This...

Racism produces subtle brain changes that lead to increased disease risk in Black populations

Negar Fani, Emory University and Nathaniel Harnett, Harvard Medical School The U.S. is in the midst of a racial reckoning. The COVID-19 pandemic, which took...

Spiritual Resilience: The Interconnected History of African American Spirituality and Social Justice Movements

African American spirituality has profoundly shaped and sustained social justice movements across history. During the civil rights era, churches served as crucial hubs for...

Gun Violence and Effective Strategies to End

Gun violence has become a major public health crisis globally, impacting communities of all sizes.

Building Economic Empowerment: African Americans and the Circular Economy

The circular economy has been gaining traction as a new way of thinking about resource consumption and production. It is an economic model that...

Mahalia Jackson’s Impact on the 1963 March on Washington Speech

Bev-Freda Jackson, American University School of Public Affairs Every now and then, a voice can matter. Mahalia Jackson had one of them. Known around the world...

Cultivating community bonds: How farmers markets benefit growers and consumers

Farmers markets are strong contenders for the future of local food. Each season, more than 8,000 markets sell directly to consumers across the U.S. Direct-to-consumer food sales totaled $2.9 billion in 2020, and on-farm stores and farmers markets accounted for $1.7 billion, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.

Black scientists, nonprofit executives and filmmakers all face racism in the ‘gray areas’ of workplace culture

Written by: Adia Harvey Wingfield Professor of Sociology, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis for conversation.com American workplaces talk a lot about...

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