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06/15/2026

The Supreme Court has gutted the Voting Rights Act. Now, Black political power is back on the chopping block, and protestors have gathered again at this sacred spot to push back in real time.

Republican lawmakers in states across the South are rushing to draw new congressional maps that weaken Black political power by eliminating majority-Black districts. This historic site is once again part of the Black struggle for vot...

06/14/2026

Atlanta’s police department started its surveillance program with 17 cameras in 2007. Now, with more than 60,000 cameras, it’s the most surveilled city in the United States. Here’s how mass surveillance impacts Black life everywhere.

The 2025 Mapping Atlanta project estimated that the city has 124 surveillance cameras for every 1,000 residents. Police and AI-powered cameras are tracking resident...

06/13/2026

When Africans were kidnapped, enslaved, and packed onto ships headed for the Americas, the conditions were horrific. One six-legged “colonizer” was also on board. This connection to slavery will make your skin crawl.

Slave ships were known for their terrible conditions. Kidnapped Africans were packed into the underdeck, which were rife with bodily waste, disease, and one particularly unwelcome addition:

06/12/2026

You’ve heard it before. The expression “peanut gallery” originated from the common practice of throwing food onstage to boo performers. Then, the definition turned anti-Black.

We've all "heard from the peanut gallery", a once-popular term used playfully to describe someone offering unsolicited advice. In the late ...

06/11/2026

Our dogs are members of our families. But that hasn’t always been allowed. The relationship between Black people and dogs has an ugly history.

In 1848, Virginia forbade free Black people from owning dogs. Two years late...

06/10/2026

In the 1960s, as Black men were fighting for civil rights, they were being disproportionately diagnosed with schizophrenia. And nothing about it was a coincidence.

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06/09/2026

Ten researchers fired. Three committee members stepped down. One student escorted off campus by police. Harvard hired them to research the truth. Here's why they're being silenced.

Harvard launched its $100 million Legacy of Slavery Initiative in 2022. Now, the same experts hired to investigate the university's ties to ...

06/07/2026

Black unemployment rates have soared in the past year. But we’ve been here before. Here are the life-saving ways we supported each other in times like these.

The unemployment rate for Black workers, especially Black women, keeps rising, reaching 7.3% by the end of 2025. Systemic racism and inequitie...

06/06/2026

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06/05/2026

It's a given at this point: Black folks online start a new trend, and before we know it, everyone else has latched on. Sometimes it feels like a love for Black culture. But what if it's something much more sinister?

In Paris in the 1920s, everyone was crazy for Black culture. White bohemian artists and intellectuals collected African art, listened to jazz, and knew all the latest Black dances, like the Charleston. The problem? This admiration fo...