1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1266+ words) Behind the music, dancing, and family-reunion atmosphere that filled the Philadelphia Zoo on the night of Aug. 19, another conversation was taking place among the hundreds of Black museum leaders gathered from across the country. Who will pay to preserve Black…...

3+ week, 16+ hour ago   (236+ words) Racial healing is the process of addressing and reversing the harms of systemic racism, disparities, and disenfranchisement experienced by Black individuals and communities. Through its Racial Healing and Black America report, Word In Black explores Black Americans’ perspectives on what…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (469+ words) In a time of book bannings, global division, and bouts of cultural erasure, Unerased | Black Women Speak is offering a counterapproach with the launch of the inaugural Power Read 25 campaign. Announced July 22, the reading initiative –– made possible by the Park…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (591+ words) For more than half a century, Vernon Hawkins helped shape Washington in ways that often escaped public attention but touched nearly every major political, civic and civil rights effort in the nation’s capital. Hawkins, a veteran organizer, public servant and…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (460+ words) The United States will celebrate its 250th birthday with fireworks, parades and patriotic ceremonies. For many African Americans, however, the milestone also stirs memories of slavery, segregation, discrimination and continuing inequities that mental health advocates say leave lasting emotional scars. A…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1620+ words) About 20 miles of what is now called River Road in Bethesda, Maryland, once stood the Counselman Tobacco Plantation. Following the Civil War, a community of formerly enslaved Black people bought land on both sides of the road and started growing…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago   (200+ words) Adapted from the report “Being Black Is Not a Risk Factor,” from the National Black Child Development Institute 1. 79% of Black households have at least one parent who is employed. This is similar to White households (80%) based on the U.S....

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (964+ words) As the United States nears its semiquincentennial and marks 161 years since formerly enslaved people hosted the first Memorial Day parade in Charleston, South Carolina, native Washingtonian Anntoinette “Toni” White-Richardson is considering the wealth of history at Woodlawn Cemetery in Southeast…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (325+ words) President Donald Trump’s second bout in the White House has been filled with the firing of Black leaders, the dismantling of civil rights protections, the gutting of federal jobs that helped build the Black middle class, and attacks on African…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (931+ words) A country that once made it illegal to teach enslaved Black people to read is now arguing over whether African American history belongs in classrooms. A Supreme Court that already weakened the Voting Rights Act has now delivered what civil…...