BLACK HISTORY MONTH, PRIDE MONTH, PUBLIC HOLIDAYS NO LONGER APPEAR ON GOOGLE CALENDAR Google Calendar users will still be able to manually show, hide or unhide public holidays and
Barry Michael Cooper, who wrote the screenplay for “New Jack City” (1991), which presaged a wave of films from Black directors and screenwriters that touched on 1990s gang life
A fight breaks out as the white supremacist group, The Patriot Front marches thru the city of Boston on July 2, 2022 in , BOSTON, MA. (Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/
Photo, Adobe Images LAYOFFS LOOM AS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ORDERS FEDERAL DEI WORKERS ON LEAVE Employees of diversity, equity and inclusion programs are to be placed on administrativ
A 1903 portrait of Paul Laurence Dunbar. Photo, Wikimedia Commons THE BRIEF BUT SHINING LIFE OF PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR, A POET WHO GAVE DIGNITY TO THE BLACK EXPERIENCE A prolific wri
Photo, Courtesy of McCrear Family THE STORY OF HOW MICHAEL KING JR. BECAME MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. On his 90th birthday, a look at the civil rights leader’s childhood name change
Photo, Courtesy of McCrear Family REMEBERING MATILDA, THE LAST SURVIVOR OF THE TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE January 13 marks 85 years since the death of Matilda, whose name at birth
Photo, Adobe Images. FROM HOMEROOM TO HANDCUFFS” WHO’S TO BLAME FOR THE SCHOOL-TO-PRISON PIPELINE School resource officers, zero-tolerance policies, and poor academic i
Photo, Adobe Images. GRADUATION RATES ARE ALL OVER THE PLACE – AND SO ARE STUDENTS More than half of high school students aren’t showing up for school, so experts are partn
Photo, Adobe Images. BLACK GIRLS CODE: COMMITTED TO INCREASING REPRESENTATION IN TECH FIELDS The organization works to fuel resources, tools, and opportunities to underrepresented
