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How Black America refused to be dimmed in 2025 and why we’ll be even better in 2026
Happy New Year! What a year 2025 was. It was a year that was worse for Black people than 2020, and that is saying a lot.
Charles Barnes marches through downtown St. Louis carrying an American flag during the 'No Kings' protest on Saturday, June 15, 2025. Demonstrators made their way through downtown demanding the ...
Monica Wilson was so devastated by the result of the 2024 presidential election, she couldn’t even move the day after. She had cast her ballot for Vice President Kamala Harris but became disillusioned ...
Non-Latinx Black adults constitute the highest population to share this view. According to a new Gallup poll, a majority of Americans—and a supermajority of Black Americans—believe that anti-Black ...
For Black Americans, managing money can be anything but simple. Due to a range of systemic inequalities through the decades in the U.S., including redlining and low income compared to their White ...
Dr. Greer is a political scientist who studies Black ethnic politics and public opinion. I think of my late grandmother Lillian McCray quite often these days. She might have completed only a portion ...
The administration knows that subduing history as it is doing works to keep people of color in this country disunited and at odds with each other. Ad Policy A community member holds a candle by the ...
It’s no secret that Black people are not monolithic. We come in all shapes, shades, sizes, and accents. However, recently, a corner of the internet’s minds were blown when Torgi Squire ...
Black patients often struggle to receive treatment, advocates say. Throughout the pandemic, Black Americans have made up a disproportionate share of cases, hospitalizations and deaths compared to any ...
President Donald Trump’s remarks about Black Americans and so-called “scams” unsurprisingly went viral on social media, garnering rebukes from critics who found the statement to be unsavory. “I got ...
Want more good news in your inbox? Sign up for the Black Joy newsletter to bring more joy into your life. New issues every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Many Americans are flocking to the country’s ...
Police violence is affecting the mental health of Black Americans, experts say. While violent police encounters involving Black people dominate headlines, the news is having a detrimental impact on ...
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