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Chance the Rapper Opens Up About Meeting His Wife at 9 Years Old: ‘Let’s Get Married!’ | People

September 12, 2019September 12, 2019African American Families, KINDR'D ...

“I saw her dancing and I was like, ‘Let’s get married!'” the artist recalled

Locked out of L.A.’s white neighborhoods, they built a black suburb. Now they’re homeless | Los Angeles Times

September 11, 2019August 4, 2020African American Commuities, KINDR'D ...

By Gale Holland, Los Angeles Times Duane Pierfax grew up after World War II in Pacoima, one of the few Los Angeles suburbs that offered the American dream of home ownership to African Americans who had been locked out of other neighborhoods by racial covenants. His stepfather worked at Lockheed Martin to support the family […]

‘My Babies’: A Serial Killer’s Chilling Portraits of His Victims | Daily Beast

June 12, 2019June 12, 2019African American Commuities, KINDR'D ...

Samuel Little says he killed women in 16 portraits with the very hand that later sketched their throats.

Natalie And Derrica Wilson Are Dedicated To Finding America’s ‘Black And Missing’ | HuffPost

April 10, 2019May 4, 2020African American Activist, African American Commuities ...

“If not us, who will do it?” asked Natalie Wilson.

These Black Women Make Sure Their Communities Are Seen | HuffPost

April 10, 2019May 5, 2020African American Activist, African American Commuities ...

Meet 11 black women who are encouraging others to see the beauty in themselves.

Woman is disturbed by her neighbor’s loud music and decides to be nice about it | University Fox

March 5, 2019March 23, 2019KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine ...

Jaime Lewis, University Fox Photo Courtesy of Candice Benbow.com, Featured Image [dropcap]Although[/dropcap] many of us may wish for a peaceful, quiet house where we can come home after a long day of work and just unwind – it isn’t always so easy. If you live in an apartment building, having peace and quiet may not […]

Living Near Your Grandmother Has Evolutionary Benefits | NPR

February 11, 2019December 25, 2019African American Commuities, African American Families ...

Killer whales, Japanese aphids and Homo sapiens — they’re among the few organisms whose females live on long past the age of reproduction. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Since the name of the evolutionary game is survival and reproduction, the phenomenon begs explanation — why live longer than you can reproduce? In the 1960s, researchers came up with […]

The White Flight From Football | The Atlantic

February 4, 2019February 4, 2019African American Sports, KOLUMN ...

Parents know that football comes with a risk of brain damage. But many black families feel that the sport is still the best option for their kids.

Welcome to Detroit, where black babies are at higher risk of death | The Guardian

February 1, 2019February 1, 2019African American Commuities, African American Health ...

Mothers face extreme deprivation due to mass water shut-offs, hospital deserts and stress from economic racism. As a result, Detroit leads in premature births.

Kalief Browder’s Suicide Brought Changes to Rikers. Now It Has Led to a $3 Million Settlement. | The New York Times

January 25, 2019January 27, 2019Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Reform ...

New York City has agreed to pay $3.3 million to settle a lawsuit on behalf of the estate of Kalief Browder, the young Bronx man whose detention on Rikers Island became a symbol of the breakdown in criminal justice in New York and fueled the drive to ban solitary confinement for youths in the city’s jails.