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Beyoncé Is Now A Billionaire
The songstress has created a musical empire that’s earned her a spot among just a few of her colleagues, including her husband.
Read MoreHow Celebrity Hairstylist Chuckie Amos Turned Brandy’s Box Braids into a Site of Refusal
Styling Brandy’s hair required a balance between expression while avoiding the hyper-sexualization that young Black women face.
Read More‘You get arrested and that’s it. They figure it out later’
After racial profiling lead to his arrest, Frederick Knight became involved with a charity that helps the formerly incarcerated rejoin society.
Read MoreWatch Night: How Black Americans Welcomed Freedom With Prayer
While Black families originally waited for midnight so that the Emancipation Proclimation would free their kin, they now often pray.
Read MoreAlgerian law declares France’s colonisation a crime
The trailblazing new law demands an apology and reparations from France, which is responsible for countless deaths over 130 years.
Read MoreCriminally Ill: State Mental Hospitals Are Turning Into Prisons
A shortage of beds in mental health facilities leads those in crisis to sit in jail without treatment, sometimes for weeks at a time.
Read MoreWhy Tracking Racial Disparities in Special Education Still Matters
Race has a complicated relationship with learning disabilities and education disparities that is often overlooked.
Read MoreBetty Reid Soskin, Oldest U.S. Park Ranger and Trailblazing Historian, Dies at 104
Soskin, who spent her life advocating for others and worked as a park ranger until she was 100, has passed.
Read MoreTheaster Gates is building a monument to Black women at the Obama Presidential Center
The artist has been commissioned for a friezed in the building’s atrium that wll be visible from Stony Island Avenue.
Read MoreDuring the Holidays, Rest Is a Radical Act for Black Women
In a season of joy — and burnout — slowing down is a form of strategy, survival, and resistance.
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