Education Featured HBCU Lifestyle Living May 19, 2022 Dillard University awards diploma to graduate in hospital after she delivers a baby boy After four years at Dillard University in New Orleans, Jada Sayles was ready to walk across the stage and receive
Featured LGBTQ+ December 29, 2021 Say Their Names: 2021 was a deadly year for Black and Brown trans, gender non-conforming people Fatal violence against transgender and gender non-conforming people reached an all-time high in 2021. At least 50 individuals from the
Featured December 23, 2021 Organization gifts 10,000 comfort bags to foster care and homeless youth this holiday Nicole Russell and her family learned first hand the challenges many kids face in the foster care system. The story
Business Featured News December 19, 2021 Advocacy groups call out dangers of robotic police dogs Robotic police dogs are popping up in some cities across the United States in what police departments are calling advanced
Featured Health November 23, 2021 Opioid crisis hitting Black communities at alarming rates amid pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a ripple effect on the country as an estimated 100,000 Americans died of drug
Books Featured LGBTQ+ November 15, 2021 George M. Johnson challenges school district ban of book: ‘I refuse to be erased’ George M. Johnson’s debut book, a memoir-manifesto, All Boys Aren’t Blue, was met with an outpouring of support and fanfare.
Education Featured November 5, 2021 Morehouse College and Google partner on virtual reality training for police Morehouse College’s National Training Institute on Race and Equity, along with the school’s Culturally Relevant Computer Lab have partnered with
Entertainment Featured Health Women October 20, 2021 Deja Riley leaps from dance to fitness with an emphasis on representing Black women Deja Riley grew up surrounded by music royalty as the daughter of superstar producer, singer, songwriter, and New Jack Swing
Featured LGBTQ+ Politics September 28, 2021 Transgender Atlanta resident advocates for housing equality in new HRC campaign video Queen Hatcher-Johnson doesn’t get into specifics about age but what Queen does remember vividly is the length of time and
Entertainment Featured Television September 1, 2021 Freeform’s ‘Good Trouble’ explores polyamory in Black relationships Zuri Adele believes she has found the role she was meant to play in the Freeform series Good Trouble. In
Featured Health August 16, 2021 Black moms decry ‘playing politics’ with children’s lives over school mask mandates School-aged children are returning to the classrooms after a year of being in isolation due to a nationwide shutdown, all
Crime Featured Local News May 20, 2021 Pittsburgh reporter AJ Ross seeks to change laws after PetSmart strangulation of toy poodle For the last 12 years, AJ Ross had a constant companion in her toy poodle, Kobe. Their worlds collided when
Education Featured Living Local News May 13, 2021 Texas Black teen graduates from college at 15, will pursue MBA Ian Taylor Schlitz isn’t your typical 15-year-old. The Keller, Texas native lives at home with his parents, like a normal
Featured Interviews Lifestyle News April 16, 2021 Black trilingual interpreter is the face of representation for underserved community Kenton Myers is fiercely trying to blaze a path where representation through people of color in the interpreter space is
LGBTQ+ Lifestyle Living April 5, 2021 LGBTQ relationship coach and matchmaker makes history as first in the industry Amari Ice knew from an early age that he was good at connecting people. “My whole life I’ve been a
Health March 23, 2021 Black Men in White Coats: A doctor’s quest to produce more Black doctors A year into the novel coronavirus global pandemic and we have seen the toll that it’s taken on the medical
Black History Featured LGBTQ+ New York February 25, 2021 Harlem based artist creates ‘Black Queer Tarot’ card project promoting inclusivity For one full year, people nationwide have been locked inside their homes, surrounded in some cases by close friends and
Entertainment Featured Television February 25, 2021 ‘Grown-ish’ dives into toxic masculinity, homophobia in Black community Grown-ish on Freeform follows the lives of college-aged Gen Z’ers navigating their way through the journey of adulthood. The show,
Entertainment Film Music February 23, 2021 Raphael Saadiq talks Tony! Toni! Toné! reunion, creating music for ‘United States vs. Billie Holiday’ Raphael Saadiq has been a mainstay in music for more than three decades and his influence on Black music and
Featured News January 8, 2021 ‘The Prophets’ examines love between two enslaved Black men in antebellum South The Prophets, which is the debut novel of Robert Jones, Jr., explores a world unknown to many but certainly lived