Black folks always show up and out for past social and political causes, but now that we’ve taken a collective step back, our absence is being felt big time.

“We want to open up a conversation asking, ‘What does it look like for a community of Black people to come together and decide what to collect?’” says Makiba Foster, cofounder of the Web ...

When it comes to white celebrities the Black community fully embraces, the list can be quite short. People like Princess Diana and Tom Hanks will forever have a space in Black folks’ heart.

"Just being willing to go in the community and talk to the people." When the Republican-controlled state legislature failed to create a new district that would give Black voters an opportunity to ...

Welfare programs helped grow the white middle class, not folks of color. Who benefitted from the Homestead Act and the discriminatory practices of FHA loans/VA programs? It was not Black people an ...

In 1900, for instance, three years before DuBois published The Souls of Black Folk, civil rights leader and poet James Weldon Johnson and musician J. Rosamund Johnson composed “Lift Every Voice ...

In DuBois’ 1903 classic, The Souls of Black Folk, he included the autobiographical essay “Of the Passing of the First Born” about the death of his toddler son Burghardt, a death that might ...

The Souls of Black Folk, that tries to capture the zeitgeist of those closing decades of the 19th century that ended Reconstruction and gave birth to Jim Crow. Reflecting on the epochal defeat of ...