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Daily, inspiring Black stories at your fingertips. PushBlack is a nonprofit media company dedicated to raising up Black voices.

We are a small team but we have an outsized impact:

We reach tens of millions of people with our BLACK NEWS & HISTORY STORIES every year. We fight for CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM to protect our community. And as a nonprofit, we rely on small donations from subscribers like you. With as little as $5 a month, you can help PushBlack raise up Black voices. Support our work: https://www.pushblack.us/donate-now?donationsource=facebookabout

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07/20/2025

Full of excitement, adrenaline rushes, thrills, and laughter, the amusement park is a place for fun. But there are a few secrets in these parks that aren’t so fun, especially when it comes to our history.

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Full of exciting rides, games, and prizes, amusement parks hold a special place in our hearts. But nothing is amusing about what some of these parks did to sell tickets.

07/19/2025

When her son went to jail, she couldn’t have known he wouldn’t come out alive. But it wasn’t a cop or prison guard this time. He had a rare autoimmune disease, and this medical professional has just been charged for his death.

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Del Shea Perry didn’t know her son, Hardel Sherrell, was dying. Sherrell showed clear signs of poor health with undiagnosed Guillain-Barré syndrome at Minnesota’s Beltrami County Jail in 2018. And now, for the first time in Minn...

07/18/2025

It's bad enough that Elon Musk wreaked havoc in the White House with DOGE. But he's also been threatening Memphis, with this mysterious $12 billion private investment. Here's how his plans could turn a Black community into his dumping ground.

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PushBlack’s criminal justice reporting and activism has had MAJOR impacts - but to continue it we need your support! Can you donate by clicking the button at the top of our page?

Elon Musk has officially left the Trump administration, but his business

07/17/2025

Firing the first Black Librarian of Congress was the wrong move, Trump. It’s about more than just books. Here’s how histories of attacks on information and knowledge intertwine with genocide — and lay the blueprint for our resistance.

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What crime did the first Black Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, commit? To Trump, who fired her in May, it was

07/16/2025

Fans are calling out Beyoncé for wearing a Buffalo Soldiers t-shirt honoring the soldiers for fighting an "enemy." Their real enemy? The ones they were in the trenches with. Here's the complicated truth.

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The sun blazed down on their necks as they kept watch on the Western Frontier. The U.S. government promised fair wages to these soldiers, convincing them to risk their lives to support westward expansion efforts in

07/15/2025

What does it mean to “police the police”? In the 60s, that looked like Black Panthers following cops around on patrols, guns at the ready. And today? In Ohio, there’s Rodney Hinton Jr. — and this new armed patrol group, posing a major threat.

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On May 14, Rodney Hinton Jr. pleaded insanity for killing a Cincinnati police officer one day after an officer

07/14/2025

His sequined gown shimmered in the dimly lit speakeasy, and he sang the blues like a contralto. The audience was enthralled. They knew they weren’t just watching a legendary drag queen; their eyes were watching God.

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“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” – 2 Corinthians 3:17. In the 1920s, Franki...

07/13/2025

With everything going on, surely shoplifters aren’t the biggest threat to our safety. That's the narrative corporations and cops ran with, though—to make cops flush with cash. Here's their plan for the money, and what you need to know about shopping while Black.

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“We will immediately stop all of the pillaging and theft. Very simply: If you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot...”

07/12/2025

Weeks after “Sinners” premiered, we still sing its praises. We might have gone to the cinemas to watch it, but we left having gone to church. The film embodied the beauty and complexities of blues music, but here’s something important we tend to forget.

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“Be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart.” –

07/11/2025

What is family policing? It’s what the system has been doing to our mothers, fathers, siblings, and cousins since we’ve been here—exploiting and breaking us apart. Here’s what family policing really means for us—and the reparations we should be fighting for.

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PushBlack’s criminal justice reporting and activism has had MAJOR impacts - but to continue it we need your support! Can you donate by clicking the button at the top of our page?

Policing isn’t just police officers. There’s family policing, including

07/10/2025

It was once called the richest Black street in the world, but it’s not the one you think. Where was it, and what was the secret to its success?

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In 1906, dozens of Atlanta’s Black residents were killed and injured, as white mobs pillaged Black businesses and homes. Survivors ...

07/09/2025

Medicaid cuts would mean 8 million people without insurance. That’s why these protesters got arrested in the Capitol for fighting back. But this fight isn’t new. Thirty-five years ago, disabled activists like Anita Cameron crawled up the Capitol steps to win this historic battle.

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It was March 12, 1990, when 60 of over 1,000 protesters left their wheelchairs, crutches, and canes behind to crawl up the steps of the...

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