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What RFK Jr. as Health Secretary Means for Black Well-Being

Photo Credit Gage Skidmore/Flickr By Jennifer Porter Gore Overview: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is sworn in as Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Oval Office...

Judge Rules Railroad Can Take Black Family’s Land After 100+ Years

Photo Credit: Getty Images A Georgia superior court judge has ruled that a railroad company can seize the land of a Black farming couple. Blaine and Diane Smith had previously...

Family of Sonya Massey Reaches $10M Settlement After Fatal Police Shooting, Pushes for Reform

On what would have been her 37th birthday, the family of Sonya Massey reached a $10 million settlement after a sheriff’s deputy shot and...

This Week In Black History Feb. 12-18

FEBRUARY 12 1793—Congress passes the first Fugi­tive Slave Law. The law made it easier for a slave owner to re-take control of a slave...

Trump is Waging War on America and the American People

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are orchestrating a dangerous power shift, slashing government jobs, undermining national security, and disrupting the economy (AP via a...

‘America For White Man’: Residents Of Historic Black Area Face Neo-Nazis

Photo Credit: Getty Images Residents of a historic Black community confronted a group of neo-Nazis waving swastika flags and brandishing a sign that read "America for the White Man." According...

Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show: A Bold Rebuke of Trump’s America

Kendrick Lamar performing the Super Bowl LIX Half Time Show (Screenshot). BHM Our Voices: Perspectives on the Black Experience – Stories examining the issues, injustices,...

The Plot to Assassinate Black America

By Keith Boykin This article was originally published on Word In Black. “Black Vote, Black Power,” a collaboration between Keith Boykin and Word In Black, examines the issues and what’s...

In Fire’s Wake, a Community Comes Together to Prevent Future Disasters

Authorities announced evacuees won’t be allowed to return to their residences due to risks of electrocution, landslides, and toxic exposure. (AP pic via CC...

Harry Stewart Jr., One Of The Last Surviving Tuskegee Airmen, Dead At 100

Photo: Getty Images Decorated World War II pilot Harry Stewart Jr., a Tuskegee Airman who broke barriers in the military, has died, per the Associated Press. He was 100. On Sunday...
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