by Dani McClain Shonta Montgomery hugs her son Levell Jones at California Institute for Women in Chino, California. (Reuters / Lucy Nicholson) (THE NATION) This week, black women in more than a dozen jails across […]
BET is shutting its Washington DC headquarters, the city where the network got its start in 1980 before it was acquired by Viacom in 2000. The office will close July 7, with operations to move to […]
by BIANCA HOLMAN (NBC) African American women are cultivating success and living the “grapelife” in the U.S. wine industry — a field that traditionally has lacked a diverse landscape. Entrepreneurs such as Nichelle and Nicole […]
Many of the more than 29 million people in the U.S. living with diabetes may avoid eating fresh fruit because of the relatively high amounts of sugar in things like bananas, apples, cherries and mangos. […]
Cecilia Marshall never imagined that the battle for equal rights in schools and elsewhere would still be as vital today as it was six decades ago when her husband, United States Supreme Court Justice Thurgood […]
by John Schuppe (NBC NEWS) The Trump era of drug enforcement has officially arrived, and it sounds a lot like the old days. The message came this week in the form of a memo from […]
by CHANDELIS R. DUSTER (NBC NEWS) Bethune-Cookman University graduates booed, turned their backs and walked out during Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ 22 minute commencement speech on Wednesday — all in an effort to make it […]
At a press conference held at Loretto Hospital, Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-7th) Friday, said, “Hell no. We won’t go for the Trumpcare health plan and predicted the Senate will reject the House GOP version. […]
By Richard Rothstein In The Color of Law (published by Liveright in May 2017), Richard Rothstein argues with exacting precision and fascinating insight how segregation in America—the incessant kind that continues to dog our major cities […]
BOSTON–New research suggests that excess sugar—especially the fructose in sugary drinks—might damage your brain. Researchers using data from the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) found that people who drink sugary […]
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