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Black Entrepreneurs in Charlotte Launch $3.7M Campaign to Build Innovation Center

Entrepreneurs in Charlotte, North Carolina, are coming together to build a creative hub designed to support and uplift small Black businesses no matter the industry.

Fabienne Rene and Andrice Boncoeur. (Courtesy International Cardiac Alliance)

Trump’s ban stalls lifesaving treatment for Haitian children who need to travel for surgery

Over 300 children and adults are currently on a waitlist to receive heart surgery in the US, some of whom may die whle waiting.

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Judge weighs government’s request to unseal records of FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr.

Newly released FBI records uncover the extent of government surveillance and attempt to discredit Martin Luther King Jr. during the height of the civil rights movement.

Jheanelle K. Wilkins, the current chair of Maryland's Black Caucus (Orangeblue222, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Maryland’s Black Caucus Leadership: Driven by Faith and Service

Delegates Jheanelle Wilkins, Stephanie Smith, Karen Toles, and Melissa Wells are blending politics and purpose.

The current exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" is organized into 12 conceptual and chronological groupings. On display here is the "Heritage" category blending African dress with Western tailoring traditions. (Adrianna Newell for NPR)

A look at the Met Museum’s exhibition on Black dandyism

The museum’s latest exhibit, which inspired the 2025 Met Gala, pays homage to the fashion of Black dandies.

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Why The History of Segregated Facilities Matters in the Trump Era

America has come a long way since the institution of segregation, a system of enforced separation based on race, that lasted well into the 20th century. It involved laws, policies, and social customs that kept Black and white Americans apart in public spaces, schools, transportation, housing, and more.

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Tulsa’s new Black mayor proposes $100M trust to ‘repair’ impact of 1921 Race Massacre

Mayor Nichols does not call the payments “reparations” because it’s a loaded term, and the approach will focus on racial repair generally.

“19 Black New Orleanians’ heads were dismembered and shipped to Leipzig University”

19 Black New Orleanians’ heads were dismembered and shipped to Leipzig University in Germany for research.

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Coping Strategies for Black Women Facing Job Loss, DEI Rollbacks

Licensed therapist educator Dr. LaToya S. Gilmore offers ways Black women can deal with the financial and identity hits caused by job loss.

Tamara Lanier, who sued the school for access to her ancestor's photos (Sidni M. Frederick, photographer for The Harvard Crimson, MIT, via Wikimedia Commons)

Harvard relinquishes possession of slave photos after years-long dispute

A descendant of the subject of some photos has allowed Harvard to keep ownership in as long as the photos became publically available.

A statue currently at Mepkin Abby (Race2Beach - Sara Dean, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Trappist abbey’s meditation garden honors enslaved people who once worked the land

What was once a plantation is now a Catholic Abby overseen by the first Black Catholic bishop in South Carolina.

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Charles Rangel, former longtime N.Y. congressman who represented Harlem, dies at 94

Charles Rangel, the Democratic former congressman from New York who championed his Harlem community on Capitol Hill for almost five decades, died Monday, his family said.

BLM protests like this one in Grand Rapids left activists physically and mentally traumatized (
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They were shot by police at the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. ‘I came home a different person’

Thousands of activists protested after George Floyd’s murder, and many of them bear the scars five years later.

Protesters walking along Delmar Boulevard in 2020, after the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. (Lawrence Bryant/Reuters)

May 25, 2020: Remembering when George Floyd’s murder ignited Milwaukee and the nation five years ago

Kenosha, Wisconsin was just one city where a protest against police violence made headlines after George Floyd’s murder in 2020.

Demonstrator at a George Floyd protest holding up a Defund the Police sign on June 5 2020 (Taymaz Valley, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Critics say the movement to defund the police failed. But Austin and Seattle are seeing progress

Milwaukee is one of several cities that diverted money away from policing toward social programs to improve communities and reduce crime.

George Floyd's family were among those present when a statue dedicated to Floyd was unveiled in his hometown of Houston (HC Precinct1, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

A look at the promise by George Floyd’s family to 38th and Chicago area in the years since grants awarded

Small Minneapolis businsses are among those who received part of nearly $500,000 in grants dispersed by George Floyd’s family.

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Praise and dismay in South Africa over president’s meeting with Trump

Many South Africans have praised their president, Cyril Ramaphosa, for staying calm when Donald Trump ambushed him in the Oval Office

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He Fired the Cops Who Murdered George Floyd. This Is His Story

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An EF-3 tornado with 150 mph winds ripped through the St. Louis area on May 16, killing five people while damaging or destroying generational Black businesses. (Antoine White)

Sirens Failed. FEMA Didn’t Show Up. Now Black St. Louis Recovers from Deadly Tornadoes Alone.

Due to government changes, Black residents in St. Louis have no where to turn after an F-3 tornado hit the area.

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Malcolm X Still Scares America That’s Why Schools Erase Him

Malcolm X Still Scares America That’s Why Schools Erase Him

A Home Owners Loan Corporation map of Los Angeles in 1939 shows how Black and brown communities were marked in red, signaling to lenders they were too risky to invest in. (Courtesy of the University of Richmond's Mapping Inequality initiative(

Redlining Shaped the Power Grid. Communities of Color Are Still Paying the Price.

The far-reaching impacts of redlining include unfair electricity costs that still plague many Black communities.