President Bill Clinton pulled her nomination as assistant attorney general in 1993 after she came under criticism for her views on voting rights. — BY, CLAY RISEN | THE NEW YORK…
The first Black performer to win the Academy Award for best actor, for “Lilies of the Field,” he once said he felt “as if I were representing 15, 18 million people with…
“They were building community and spreading the wealth within the community and enhancing other Black people, and it was all stripped away,” the founder of the advocacy group Where Is My Land…
— BY, EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | EJI On January 3, 1895, 19 leaders from the Hopi tribe were imprisoned on Alcatraz Island, a prison in the San Francisco Bay, on charges…
— BY, HALEY GUNN It’s no surprise that we take our shopping seriously here at The Real Deal–from finding the best sales to reviewing viral products, we pride ourselves on representing…
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— BY, JACQUELINE CHARLES, SHIRSHO DASGUPTA, KEVIN G. HALL AND ROSMERY IZAGUIRRE Julia Guzmán lost her husband Victor Raúl Vega last August when 13 members of her household in the Peruvian capital of…
— KEEANGA-YAMAHTTA TAYLOR, THE NEW YORKER On the grounds of the Chelten Hills Cemetery, in West Oak Lane, Philadelphia, not far from where I live, brightly colored helium balloons stretch toward…
— Aryn Baker, TIME When COVID-19 initially blazed through Asia, Europe and then the United States, global public health experts worried that it could be catastrophic for Africa, with its crowded cities, poorly funded…
“He made me feel like a drug addict,” Dr. Susan Moore said, accusing a white doctor of downplaying her complaints of pain and suggesting she should be discharged. — John Eligon,…
Black churches have suffered big losses this year. They’ve also adapted, and some are thriving. — Curtis Bunn, NBC News Black churches have certainly not been spared from the incalculable loss…
COVID-19 doesn’t discriminate by race, yet it has still laid bare the brutality of racism in the United States. — Patrice Peck, The Atlantic All skinfolk ain’t kinfolk, but as Black people…
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