Ban Ki-moon says ‘massive response’ is crucial to provide ‘life-saving assistance’ as local aid officials struggle to get resources to increasingly desperate areas.
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In Washington, two black managers create a piece of baseball history
When the Nats play the Dodgers on Friday, Dusty Baker and Dave Roberts will become the first black managers to oppose each other in a postseason series. Baseball has no choice but to pay attention
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Hurricane Matthew: Haiti tragedy repeats itself
Aid now a priority in Caribbean nation but everyone here wants to be sure not to repeat mistakes of the past.
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Is Anything That Trump Says About African American Communities True?
Donald Trump makes it sound like black Americans lead terrible lives—filled with race riots, rampant shootings, and rapid rising unemployment. He seems to think that African American communities are all equally engulfed in poverty.
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Texas Prisons Banned My Book About Texas Prisoners
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s literary censorship policy is a national disgrace.
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Why These Farm Workers Went On Strike—and Why It Matters
Months of strikes and organizing in Washington led to the first U.S. farmworker union in years.
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Thelma Johnson Streat’s mural to be displayed at Smithsonian African-American museum
Work by a renowned Yakima-born artist — the late Thelma Johnson Streat — again has taken center stage, this time at the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.
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Where My Girls At?: 28+ Opportunities to See and Support the Work of Black Female Artists and Curators This Fall
IT WAS A GREAT DAY IN HARLEM, a celebration of two important women in art—Alma Thomas (1891-1978) and Thelma Golden. The artist and the director of the Studio Museum in Harlem were both born Sept. 22. Thomas would have been 125. To mark the milestone, the Studio Museum, which is currently presenting an exhibition of Thomas’s paintings and drawings, had a birthday party. The special breakfast and exhibition viewing was hosted by Golden.
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Hurricane Matthew Makes Old Problems Worse for Haitians
The first reports to arrive were of vast flooding and destruction, rivers of brown water pulsing through streets and homes shorn of tin roofs.
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A First Look as Haiti Emerges from Hurricane Matthew
As the category 4 storm barrels north across the Caribbean, photographs show the destruction in its wake.
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