Uplifting and poignant, this playlist celebrates African-American composers for Juneteenth! Continue Reading Variations on a Theme: Juneteenth!Read More
For over two decades, Tri-Cities held the only Miss Juneteenth Scholarship Program pageant in Washington state. This year seven candidates compete for the crown and the scholarship to celebrate the leadership of young African American women. Read More
Listen (Runtime 1:12) Read The 2nd Annual Celebration of Community, Diversity & Culture” will be held this weekend August 6th from 12 to 8 p.m. in Kennewick. The last few… Continue Reading Tri Cities’ 2nd Read More
Justice Norma Rodriguez Listen (Runtime 3:21) Read Judges with unique backgrounds and life experiences bring invaluable perspectives according to a report by the Center for American Progress (CAP). And the… Continue Read More
As many people celebrate growing representation, women and people of color continue to bear the brunt of harassment and threats at all levels of government. The abuse is compounded for Black women, who experience both systemic racism and sexism. An Amnesty International study examining abusive tweets targeted at women journalists and politicians in the U.S. and U.K. in Read More
The United States has a new national holiday to celebrate: Juneteenth, marking the day in 1865 — in the aftermath of the Civil War — when U.S. Army troops landed in Galveston, Texas, and informed some of the last enslaved Americans that they were free. Read More
President Biden on Thursday signed a bill to recognize Juneteenth — the celebration to commemorate the end of chattel slavery in the United States — as a federal holiday. Continue Reading President Biden Signs Bill Into Law Making Read More
Artist Paul Rucker is fearless when it comes to taking on terrible moments in American history. One of them, in Tulsa, Okla., was destroyed by a white mob 100 years ago, on May 31, 1921. The catastrophic attack on what was known as Black Wall Street might be the worst single episode of racial violence in American history, with 35 city blocks of Black community destroyed Read More
With the sale of print books rising just over 8% and all unit sales of books surpassing 750 million, Black bookstores would play an integral role in feeding the nation's "sudden" appetite in the plight of Black people. Continue Reading Read More
Not only did Shuffle Along bring jazz to Broadway, it was the first African American show to be a smash hit. Its composer Eubie Blake recalled on WNYC in 1973: "When we put Shuffle Along on, on Broadway, we put negroes back to work again." Continue Read More
LISTEN BY AILSA CHANG, JASON FULLER & SARAH HANDEL Tennessee could owe a historically Black university more than a half-billion dollars after it withheld funding for decades. A bipartisan legislative… Continue Reading Read More
Andrew Brown Jr. died from a fatal gunshot to the back of head, his relatives and family attorneys said Tuesday, citing the results of an independent autopsy. The finding bolsters the claim that Brown was "executed," the family said. Read More
Hester Ford, who was America's oldest person living, died at her home in Charlotte, N.C., on April 17. Ford was at least 115 years old, though some records say she was possibly 116. Continue Reading Hester Ford, Oldest Living American, Dies At 115 (Or Read More
Nubia: Real One doesn't take place on Wonder Woman's home island Themyscira, but somewhere in modern-day America — though a modern-day America in which superheroes are a real thing. And Nubia is not an adult woman warrior who knows who and what she is (as she did when she first appeared in 1973's Wonder Woman Vol. 1 #204), no. This is McKinney's take on Nubia for real. Read More
In his latest documentary series and book, “The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song,” Gates examines the cultural institution within Black communities. He explains how the Black Church has played such a vital role in Black liberation, since its beginnings. And along with viewing the Black church through a critical eye and exploring its origin, the new PBS Read More
Some time into his new book The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto, Charles Blow recalls hearing Harry Belafonte give a speech. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: Charles Blow’s ‘The Devil You Know’ Is A Read More
Produced by a diverse group of filmmakers assembled by 1504, a studio based in Birmingham, Ala., For The Sake Of Old Times pairs the performance of "Auld Lang Syne" with archival footage from 2020, particularly of the summer's racial justice protests. Read More
Texas lawmakers voted to remove the word "Negro" from geographic features in 1991. But a federal board blocked the proposed name changes, and since then, almost none of them have been changed. Continue Reading Why Do So Many Read More
Wilton Gregory, the archbishop of Washington, D.C., is among 13 church leaders elevated to cardinal at a ceremony at the Vatican on Saturday. Continue Reading With Ceremony At The Vatican, Wilton Gregory Becomes 1st Black Read More
Harris is the first woman, the first Black person and the first Asian American elected vice president of the United States. Her rise marks a statement about a changing nation. Continue Reading ‘Game-Changer’: Kamala Harris Makes Read More
As jazz experienced an awakening in the late '60s and early '70s , a record label from Oakland was at the forefront of capturing it. Now, those records are finally returning. Continue Reading Rediscovering The Enormous Social And Read More
Lorraine Hansberry's play is about a Black family's struggle against racism in 1950s Chicago. At the Beijing People's Art Theatre, director Ying Da is working to bring that story to Chinese audiences. Continue Reading First Read More
A statement on posted to the actor's Twitter on Friday said Boseman had battled colon cancer for the last four years. Continue Reading ‘Black Panther’ Star Chadwick Boseman Dies Of Cancer At Age 43Read More
In this short film, five young descendants of Frederick Douglass read and respond to excerpts of his famous speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" which asks all of us to consider America's long history of denying equal rights to Black Americans. Read More
In A Most Beautiful Thing, Arshay Cooper shares the story of how he, and others from rival gang neighborhoods on Chicago's West Side, found their way to crew — and each other. Continue Reading ‘A Most Beautiful Read More
Data shows people with certain chronic conditions are more likely to get severe COVID-19 symptoms. Why are they hit harder and what explains the disease's disproportionate affect on African Americans? Continue Reading Who’s Hit Hardest Read More
Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the executive producer of a new documentary focusing on the lives of black Americans on both sides of the Revolutionary War, whose stories aren't often told. Continue Reading Read More
Miller was a mess attendant on the West Virginia when he jumped in to man a machine gun during the Pearl Harbor attack. He is the first African American to have an aircraft carrier named after him. Continue Read More
The screenwriter's new movie is about a black couple who shoot a white police officer in self-defense during a routine traffic stop. Their ensuing flight, she says, is a "meditation on blackness." Continue Reading Lena Waithe’s Read More
Jacqueline Woodson's exquisitely wrought new novel follows two black families of different classes whose lives become intertwined when their only children conceive a child together in their teens. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: ‘Red At The Bone’ Read More
Conceived and directed by Matthew Cherry, it follows the story of an African American father — Stephen — and his daughter, Zuri. Stephen is trying to learn how to do Zuri's glorious natural hair. Continue Reading ‘Hair Read More
Morrison was the author of Beloved, Song of Solomon and The Bluest Eye. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Continue Reading Toni Read More
Wade In The Water contains music featured in the 26-part documentary about gospel music. Continue Reading Wade In The Water: A History Of Gospel MusicRead More
They wanted better working conditions and higher pay, but they needed help strategizing. Martin Luther King Jr. went to Memphis to help. Continue Reading The Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike: King’s Last Cause For Economic Read More
Zelma Maine Jackson says she’s the only African-American woman geologist perhaps for hundreds of miles. KAI-HUEI YAU This story was originally published AUG 4, 2015. In the West, there aren’t… Continue Reading Daughters Read More
