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Shaunicy Muhammad The Oklahoma Eagle More than a century after the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, members of Greenwood’s Vernon AME Church are determined to tell their own stories. Archivists, archeologists and elected officials lined the […]

Geraldine Lamar Data News Weekly Contributor As we celebrate Women’s History Month, it must be noted that throughout American History, Black Women have stood at the forefront of struggles for freedom, justice, economic empowerment, and […]

Data News Staff Edited Report The phrase at the center of it all is blunt and unadorned: We have no friends. By the end of 2025, the effort to thin Black memory had become impossible […]

Fred Redmond AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer In our workplaces, communities and government, the Right to Vote is how working people make their voices heard. The late Rep. John Lewis called the vote “precious, almost sacred,” and today […]

Photos courtesy Youth Changemakers Summit Deon Arnold Data News Weekly Contributor Black College Students convened in Washington, D.C. as part of the 2025 Young Black Changemaker Summits, organized by Students Demand Action and Everytown for […]

Lauren Burke NNPA Newswire Correspondent The six-decade career of Legendary artist Jimmy Cliff, who was born in the Somerton District of Jamaica, was one of the most influential in Reggae History and a Global Ambassador […]

Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent They said it would never happen here. Yet here we are. Nearly half of Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s radical blueprint for dismantling American Democracy, has […]

Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent In Donald Trump’s America, they are no longer whispering their nostalgia for slavery—they are preaching it from the pulpit. Far-right Christian Nationalist Joshua Haymes, a self-proclaimed […]

April Ryan Black Press USA Newswire Janai Nelson, President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Head of Counsel for the organization, argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday for the Civil Rights Stance […]

Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent Across America, families are being broken not by illness alone, but by the quiet cruelty of denial letters from insurance companies. Patients in crisis are told […]