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08/28/2026

📰 WEEKLY ROUND UP: From the Archives 📰
Some stories don't expire. Every weekend, we resurface Word In Black reporting that's just as relevant now as the day it was published. New readers, this is your entry point. Long-time followers, this is your reminder to share.
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🗂️ FROM THE ARCHIVES: Joy is a cookout, a step team, a block party. It's the inside jokes passed down in families. It's medicine. And it's ours. In a week that brought Dolly's passing, Stephen A.'s reckoning, and another chapter of the data center fight, end your weekend with something that reminds you what we're protecting. Joy is not the absence of struggle. It's the refusal to let struggle have the last word. Link in Bio

Joy that knows what it costs to be alive and Black in America and still chooses to shine anyway is a much-needed form of resistance.

08/28/2026

Is college still worth it? During Word In Black’s latest virtual event, we explored what the future looks like for college graduates as the U.S. grapples with AI in the workplace and an unstable job market.
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Dr. Bradley Hardy -Georgetown University, Distinguished Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy.

08/28/2026

📰 WEEKLY ROUND UP 📰
Every weekend, Word In Black highlights the stories that mattered most this week. If you missed something, we've got you. If you caught everything, share this with someone who didn't.
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Bishop Barber spent years building Moral Mondays into a national movement of clergy getting arrested in the Capitol for praying. Now, with federal doors closing, he's shifting the strategy: from protest to the polls. Dorothy Boulware reports on the pivot and what it means for the midterms. Link in Bio

After spending months lobbying members of Congress on Capitol Hill, Moral Mondays is leaving Washington, D.C., and going local. Bishop William Barber II wants churches, neighborhoods, and grassroots groups to turn protest into political power by mobilizing 5 million infrequent low-income voters ahea...

08/28/2026

📰 WEEKLY ROUND UP 📰
Every weekend, Word In Black highlights the stories that mattered most this week. If you missed something, we've got you. If you caught everything, share this with someone who didn't.
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If you've been following our Musk/xAI coverage this year, this is the big picture piece. From unpermitted turbines in Memphis to coal plants staying open in Orlando to a data center deal in Bessemer that nobody voted on. The pattern is always the same: the AI industry needs power, and the communities absorbing the environmental cost are disproportionately Black and brown. W***y Blackmore connects every thread. Link in Bio

A Georgia community is fighting a pop-up power plant built to feed the booming demand for AI data centers.

08/28/2026

📰 WEEKLY ROUND UP 📰
Every weekend, Word In Black highlights the stories that mattered most this week. If you missed something, we've got you. If you caught everything, share this with someone who didn't.
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More than six decades after Dr. King wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail," the young Black woman who helped transform scattered notes smuggled out on scraps of paper into one of America's most important documents is finally getting recognized. Dorothy Boulware tells a story most history books left out entirely.

Overview: Willie Pearl Mackey King had no idea the scraps scattered across an SCLC office floor would become one of the most important writings in American history. Sixty-three years later, a new foundation is making sure her role in creating it isn't forgotten. More than six decades after the Rev. ...

08/27/2026

Two costumes. One week. One man put on a Spider-Man suit and tackled a pardoned January 6th rioter who showed up to defend a woman convicted of calling an 8-year-old Black autistic boy a slur. Same week, Target put a minstrel costume on a Black child and photographed it for their website. Spider-Man got a misdemeanor. Target issued an apology. One costume was resistance. The other was the thing people resist against. And we're supposed to believe nobody in a multi-billion dollar company saw what the rest of us saw in two seconds. Watch the full breakdown.

08/27/2026

Every weekend, Word In Black highlights the stories that mattered most this week. If you missed something, we've got you. If you caught everything, share this with someone who didn't.

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It started 16 years ago with a director who expected maybe 30 singers to show up. Nearly 200 did. The Community Concert Choir of Baltimore has since performed at Carnegie Hall, in Rome for the Vatican, and at the MLK Jr. Memorial. Now they're heading to Atlanta for their first performance at historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, the spiritual home of Dr. King and the current pulpit of Sen. Raphael Warnock. The choir paid their own way to Rome. Over 3,000 people showed up for one Baltimore concert and some had to be turned away. Dorothy Boulware has the story. Link in Bio

The Community Concert Choir of Baltimore’s remarkable journey is bringing its nearly 200 voices to Atlanta for the first time.

08/27/2026

Is college still worth it? During Word In Black’s latest virtual event, we explored what the future looks like for college graduates as the U.S. grapples with AI in the workplace and an unstable job market.
Watch the event replay on YouTube:

LeNayah Page, executive business consultant, entrepreneur, trade school graduate.

08/27/2026

From late-night Google searches to AI chatbots, how we look for support is changing. Word In Black wants to hear how YOU really feel about AI and mental health in our community. It's confidential, it's 5
minutes, and it matters. Link in bio or below → https://wordinblack.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7OGEsyrcUh7R6om?wordinblack

08/27/2026

Whitney Houston turned her song into the biggest pop anthem of the '90s. Dolly took the royalties and invested them in a Black Nashville neighborhood. She called it "the house that Whitney built." She put 300 million free books into children's hands, including Black households that couldn't afford them. She donated $1 million toward the COVID vaccine that disproportionately saved Black lives. And when George Floyd was murdered, she didn't release a corporate statement. She said, "Do we think our little white asses are the only ones that matter? No!" Rev. Dorothy Boulware on why Black America is mourning a country music icon from the Smoky Mountains. Link in Bio

Two Black superstars transformed her songs — and helped reveal a relationship with Black culture that ran deeper than country music.