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By Lauren Victoria Burke A day after Taylor Dumpson, who is an African American woman, was elected to be student body president at American University, nooses and bananas (some with the words “AKA Free” on […]

Trayvon Martin was killed in 2012 by a neighborhood watchman. (Photo credit SYBRINA FULTON) By Taryn Finley, huffingtonpost.com An aviation school in Florida is honoring Trayvon Martin with a posthumous degree at its commencement this month. Florida […]

By Nicole Chavez, CNN Millions of Americans are uncertain about their future as a new health care bill heads to the Senate. The American Health Care Act would shake things up. It could open the […]

By Namrata Tripathi, International Business Times After the death of the Italian woman Emma Morano, who held the title of the world’s oldest person, Jamaican centenarian Violet Brown, aged 117, is now the oldest person […]

By David Love, Atlanta Black Star In what is being described as the largest single dismissal of wrongful criminal convictions in U.S. history, a Massachusetts court has dismissed over 21,000 drug-related cases after it was […]

By Christian Carter, blackdoctor.org What would make a man do something like this? I mean, no married or divorced person today would tell you that their relationship was without issues, right? That’s what makes this […]

Source: The Washington Post / Getty With photos of Harriet Tubman being few and far between, when a rare new photo of her surfaced it was a huge deal. While most photos depict Tubman as […]

Grooming regulations in the different branches of the military have been at odds with natural hair for many years. Yet a recent report from The New York Times shows that a number of Black women […]