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.

Meanwhile, Black people have appeared to have checked out of “the movement” and take a rest, shaking their head at the Trump voters saying, “We tried to tell you.” To the white folks ...

“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 ...

“People wish they ... With each crisis, Black banks get hit harder and recover slower. Today, only a handful remain. I often think of the movie Boogie Nights and a scene where Don Cheadle ...

Literary giant Amiri Baraka, in his book "Blues People," explains Blues music as: “A native American music, the product of the Black man in this country… Blues was a music that arose from the ...

The people in power, half of the producing team and all of the creative team, were Black. These dynamics of power, legibility, identity, and access echoed a heartbreaking truth; even under Black ...

Williams: Confederate monuments cannot be allowed to rise again Black folks in America have become associated with mass action marches, the most famous being the 1965 march from Selma to ...

All these signposts show all the ways Black folks are ghosts in the city.” Jasmine’s hurt flows from the hypocrisy. Just as many other cities honor Black people as they remove them, San Francisco ...

"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 ...

“I wanted to help broaden that story and include Black people, who’ve been part of that story for a long time, and felt that you couldn’t really talk about the significance of the Pacific as ...

As [former U.S. Representative] Barbara Jordan said in her speech during the [President Richard] Nixon impeachment, when she confronted the fact that Black folks were not trying to save ourselves ...