Black Alerts

07/14/2026

Just Released: Funeral details for Nolan Wells are revealed as his family awaits answers

Rev. Al Sharpton will officiate the service and filmmaker Tyler Perry will fund it as a Mississippi community prepares to

07/14/2026

During an exclusive interview with theGrio, America’s lone Black governor says the facts and the law are not on President

07/08/2026

Federal Judge Rules Trump Pardons Don’t Apply To Pipe Bomb Suspect

Source: US Department of Justice / other A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump’s mass pardons for the Jan 6. Insurrectionists don’t apply to the man charged with planting pipe bombs nea…

07/06/2026

MISSING: Nolan Xavier Wells, 18

Authorities are asking the public for help as an extensive multi-agency search continues for an 18-year-old Mississippi teen who disappeared during Fourth of July weekend on Horn Island.

Authorities are asking the public for help as an extensive multi-agency search continues for an 18-year-old Mississippi teen who disappeared during Fourth of July weekend on Horn Island. What We Kn…

07/05/2026

07/05/2026

During the 1963 March on Washington, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. described the promise of equality as a check that had yet to be honored.

His words remain one of the defining moments of the Civil Rights Movement—and a reminder that America's greatest ideals are measured by how fully they are realized.

07/05/2026

This might be the most impactful image of 2026. Alex Haynes argues that America’s 250th birthday produced an image we shouldn’t be able to ignore.

She didn’t say a word. She didn’t have to. On America’s 250th birthday, a young Black woman sat alone on a Washington Metro train while dozens of masked members of Patriot Front surrounded her. Con…

07/04/2026

Newsone: What, To The Black American, Is The 250th Anniversary?

Source: kali9 / Getty Every July 4th, my social media feed fills up with a predictable wash of red, white, and blue. Last year, one image had me pause a little longer than all of the others. It was…

07/04/2026