Special Correspondent Danielle Harvey speaks with Dr. Neal Lester about the complex history and politicization of black hair in America. Dr. Lester is Foundation Professor of English and Founding Director…
By Elisabeth Rosenthal and Kaiser Health News Here’s one big takeaway from our country’s disastrous 2020 covid response: For 20 years, we’ve lavished attention and money on fighting human terrorism and…
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia African Americans comprise about half of the more than 100,000 inmates in Florida prisons and jails. Black males ages 30…
By Laura Ungar Alexandra Sierra carried boxes of food to her kitchen counter, where her 7-year-old daughter, Rachell, stirred a pitcher of lemonade. “Oh, my God, it smells so good!” Sierra,…
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia The child population in America is the most diverse in history, but children remain the poorest age group in the…
By Laura Ungar This spring, high school senior Nathan Kassis will play baseball in the shadow of covid-19 — wearing a neck gaiter under his catcher’s mask, sitting 6 feet from…
By April Dembosky, KQED For months, journalists, politicians and health officials — including New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Dr. Anthony Fauci — have invoked the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study to explain why Black Americans…
By Aneri Pattani and Kaiser Health News CONCORD, N.C. — It had been months since Tremellia Hobbs had an excuse to bring out the pompoms. Before the pandemic, they were a…
By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio and Kaiser Health News When Darius Settles died from COVID-19 on the Fourth of July, his family and the city of Nashville, Tennessee, were…
America sits at a critically important crossroads. Racist ideology is on the rise and significant parts of 20th-century African American history and culture are at risk of being lost forever.…
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