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Source: Ivan Rodriguez Alba / Getty   For centuries, Black communities have carried the weight of historical trauma—an inheritance passed down through generations, shaped by the enduring legacies of slavery, colonization, systemic oppression, and displacement. This trauma doesn’t just exist in memory; it’s stored in our bodies, our nervous systems, and our collective consciousness, manifesting in chronic stress, anxiety, and the disproportionate health disparities that affect Black people today.  But […]

Source: Robin L Marshall / Getty The NAACP has once again created a 21st-century Green Book to warn Black people which parts of America to avoid because white supremacy has run amok there. However, this time, the association isn’t warning us which cities, towns, and neighborhoods to steer clear of due to MAGA policies ruling the land; it’s informing Black people on what businesses to boycott because they have followed […]

Source: Radio One Digital / Radio One Digital   Over the past 25 years, also known as the new millennium, black folks have been trailblazing! From politics to entertainment, business to sports, these history makers have shattered barriers and set brand new precedents for what is achievable by becoming “firsts.” Their accomplishments are more than just personal milestones—they represent progress, perseverance, and the power of representation. As we look back […]

Source: DUTCH/Bauer-Griffin / Getty The verdict is in: Rakim Mayers, known to music fans around the world as ASAP Rocky, has been found not guilty on two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm by a jury on Tuesday (Feb 18). Rocky, 36, was accused of opening fire on childhood friend Terell “A$AP Relli” Ephron in Hollywood back in 2021. A$AP Rocky jumps into the gallery and embraces Rihanna […]

Source: GEOFF ROBINS / Getty Footage has emerged of a fiery plane crash at Toronto’s Pearson airport, showing a Delta Air Lines jet skidding along the runway, flipping over, and engulfed in flames. With 80 people on board, The crash sent 21 people to the hospital, with three in critical condition. Passengers escaped through the plane’s upside-down doors into the bitter cold, with some standing dazed in the snow. The […]

Candles burn during a candlelit vigil to mark World Suicide Prevention Week at College Green, Dublin. | Source: Liam McBurney – PA Images / Getty UPDATED: 2:00 p.m. ET, Feb. 18, 2025 Originally published: Sept. 10, 2021 The world woke up to the tragic news Saturday morning that the only son of celebrated actress Regina King had died by suicide just a few days after his 26th birthday and less […]

A statue of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, sits in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Historians consistently have given Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, their highest rating because of his leadership during the Civil War. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images What will be former President Joe Biden’s legacy? How will Americans in the future consider his four years in office? Every American president lands in the history […]

Source: John Lamparski / Getty Somehow, mass deportation enthusiasts have gotten it in their heads that it’s illegal to teach migrants, documented or not, what constitutional rights they have when confronted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Now, this profound loud and wrongness is not so immediately harmful when it comes to everyday citizens who aren’t very well-read in the U.S. Constitution (while pretending to be patriots), but when […]

A 1902 portrait of Paul Lawrence Dunbar. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to give voice and dignity to the experience of Black Americans at the turn of the 20th century. He was the first Black American to make a living as a writer and was seminal in the start […]