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The Jacksonian Impact

New Yorkers pay tribute to Rev. Jesse Jackson - Protest Power and Racial Resilience,...
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Grassroots to Global

Thousands join The Rev. Al Sharpton, National Action Network and Civil Rights Leaders on...
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Abigail McGrath

A Storyteller Raised by Harlem Renaissance Legends Who Lived a Novel Life By Fern GillespieThere...
U.S. Politics

The Real Dangers of Project 2025 for Black People

By Mary Alice MillerWhen Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, he had no...
Community News

Protecting Our Community from Project 2025: Concrete Actions for the Future

by New York State Assembly Member Stefani L. Zinerman (District 56), Bedford Stuyvesant |...
Interview

Dennis L. Powell: “Vote in Honor of Those Who Could Not”

On the Saturday before the Sunday (July 21) announcement of President Biden’s decision to...
Black History

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Environment

by Wildtomorrow.orgEcology and the environment aren’t the first things that we think of when...
Black History

Miss LeCount & Mr. Catto

Philadelphia Residents Seek Monuments to Giants in the City’s Black History, Unknown to the...
Black History

Power Moves: Saving Sacred Places,Rediscovering Lost Values

Text and Photos by Bernice Elizabeth Green In May 2018, Rev. Taharka W. Robinson and...
Black History

National Trust Grants $4m in Grants to Preserve 35 Historic Black Churches across the U.S., including Brooklyn’s Varick Memorial and Harlem’s Mother AME Zion

For more than four centuries, the Black church, America’s foremost institution epitomizing steadfastness, has...
Black History

Reflections of a 1960’s Demonstrator

First Person by Hazel StewartMy mother was slightly to the right of John Birch....
News around the Web

Fannie Lou Hamer: The Right to Vote –What it Took to Get Here

1917-1977 Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer rose from humble beginnings in the Mississippi Delta to become...
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Docu-Series Breathes Life into Civil Rights-Era Cold Cases, New Meaning to Cry “No Justice, No Peace”

Beverly Terry Last week, Investigation Discovery, partnering with the NAACP, hosted the premiere of  their...
City Politics

Kevin Powell: Ascent of a Political Activist

Two years ago, when community activist and writer Kevin Powell campaigned for the 10th...
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Obituary

Bob Law Stood Tall on the Frontlines and Behind the Scenes, His “Clarion Call” Made News

By Nayaba ArindeThe Tall One has joined The Ancestors. Tributes have come in thick...
Events

Forum: Immigrants are the Bargaining Chip Keeping the Government Shut Down

By Mary Alice MillerThe Brooklyn Center for Quality Life recently hosted a national online...
Education

Study Highlights Long-term Values of Attending an HBCU

Fern GillespieSince the Reconstruction Era, Black colleges and universities have nurtured generations of Black...
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Binta Vann, Family and Friends on The Reasons HBCUs Work for Us

“Mental health, like physical and spiritual health, demands balance and intentional self-care. This new...