Participants who received an average of $850 per month used it for paying bills, reducing debt, and improving credit. By Timothy Pratt, for Capital & Main, Daily KosPhoto, Children draw on top of a cancelled check prop during a rally in front of the U.S. Capitol December 13, 2021, in Washington, D.C. In 2022, Shamarra […]
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Black Residents Battle Against Tennessee GOP’s Effort to Ban Reparations
State lawmakers plan to vote on April 10 on legislation that would ban local governments from studying or disbursing restitution. By Aallyah Wright and Brandon Tensley, Capital BPhoto, Gun reform activists cheer outside the Tennessee State Capitol in August 2023 ahead of a special session after a mass shooting at The Covenant School in which […]
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Exposing High Rates of Suicide Among Young Black Men in Rural Areas
A new study from the University of Georgia reveals systemic failures. By Clayton Gutzmore, Word In BlackPhoto, Daniel Tijesuni/Pexels. Suicide is a sensitive topic because of how damaging it is for the person who does the act and the lives of people around them who need to cope. A recent study from the University of Georgia (UGA) […]
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Congress Votes to Dissolve House Office of Diversity and Inclusion
The House of Representatives Office of Diversity and Inclusion was dissolved due to a compromise in the federal spending bill, despite its efforts to create and cultivate a more diverse congressional workforce. By Ashleigh Fields, Word In BlackPhoto, After congressional budget rollbacks surrounding diversity and inclusion programs, the House of Representatives Office of Diversity and […]
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Black Folks Are Advocating for the Homeless
Homelessness for many could be just one missed check, one serious medical emergency, or one lost job away. By Aswad Walker, Word In BlackPhoto, Dr. Rudy Rasmus (right), speaking with a resident of the Knowles-Temenos Place Apartments, is one of the local Blacks offering game-changing ministry/service to the Houston-area homeless. Photo courtesy Rudy Rasmus. Deborah […]
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Players from first all-Black All-American women’s basketball team reflect on making history in 1984
The 10 team members marveled over its meaning, then and now By Branson Wright, ANDSCAPEPhoto, USC All-American Cheryl Miller with USC flag team in 1984. Tony Duffy/Getty Images 1984 was packed with many firsts in women’s basketball. It was a year with a glimpse into the future of the game’s evolution, a year filled with […]
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The Oakland Tribune’s First Black Photojournalist Captured the ‘Black Aesthetic’ of the ’60s and ’70s
By Ariana Proehl, KQEDPhoto, Woman in downtown San Francisco on Market Street. (Kenneth P. Green Sr.) You know that curiosity that pops up sometimes when you’re in a gallery and you’re looking at a really good photo of a stranger? And the spirit of it, the everyday-ness of it, makes you want to know the person’s story? Were […]
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‘World’s Richest Negro Girl’ inspired media ridicule, fascination, alarm
Sarah Rector was 11 when oil was discovered on her land in Oklahoma in 1913. Her sudden wealth became the object of racist news coverage. By Sydney Trent, Washington PostPhoto, Sarah Rector with her nephew, Chester E. Brown Jr., in 1960 (Family photo) Deborah Brown grew up calling her “Aunt Sister,” and she remembersher storied […]
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How New Yorker Howard Bennet fought to make Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a national holiday
By Andrew Berman, Village PreservationPhoto, Martin Luther King Jr. at the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. via Wiki Commons Fifty years ago, on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. This ended the life of one of the 20th century’s […]
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In 1967, a Black Man and a White Woman Bought a Home. American Politics Would Never Be the Same.
“As farmers, we go out and as they say, we plant and pray,” Haynie said. “We plant a crop … we pray for rain; we pray for prices.”
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