The protest at Howard University is making waves as rapper Gucci Mane stands in solidarity with the student demonstrators.

The late science-fiction novelist hoped to broaden the horizons of Black children. Her former junior high has a STEAM focus and serves more than 90 percent students of color.

The subjects of “The Aunties,” a forthcoming short film, share their origin story and why we must consider the fullness of the legendary abolitionist’s life.

In the wake of the state-sanctioned lynchings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and countless others, the United States has been forced to grapple with not only the devastation of police terrorism, …

Johnny Robinson and Virgil Ware were killed in the aftermath of the Birmingham church bombing in 1963.

An essay about an archaic social contract

Elon Musk's Twitter is full of contradictions that perpetuate a racial hierarchy

Access to grocery stores with fresh produce remains scarce more than six months after the mass shooting at Tops. 

Fewer white people call Washington, D.C home in a demographic shift that happened during the pandemic and restores the "Chocolate City" nickname.

Kaepernick Publishing and LEVEL, a Medium publication, today launched “Abolition For the People: The Movement For A Future Without Policing &

Michael Jordan and the Jordan Brand are donating $2.5 million toward fighting Black voter suppression. It is the continuation of the $100 million pledge

The story of the Maroons is missing from American education

In 1988, a group of writers gathered on the steps of Spelman College’s Rockefeller Fine Arts building to fete Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, who, that weekend, had become the college’s first Black woman...

"I learned to walk again, and this is one of my first steps," Lezley McSpadden said, fighting back tears.

A new exhibition defines how artistry and activism over decades gave rise to the idea and promise of a future that could advance Black life

Hip-hop artist Christopher LeMark started healing from decades of trauma thanks to therapy. He decided to help his fellow Chicago residents.

Abolition granted freedom but not access to opportunities

“We’ve got a movement that is so resonant with today’s political issues, and yet, we didn’t know about it,” said Foreman, the founding director of the Colored Conventions Project.

Salon talks to a hero of "The Walking Dead" and "Black Panther" franchises about taking on Shakespeare's top villain

The growing visibility of higher education’s historic hand in the destruction and displacement of Black communities hasn’t gone unnoticed.

An HBCU men’s basketball program has decided to take on a surprising cause for their team's social justice project. 

Eight down, many more to go!

Anjanette Young sued the city and several police officers over the 2019 botched raid at her apartment.

A common response to failed products like the Gucci blackface sweater is that there should have been a Black person "in the room" to save the company from marketing racism. We need to talk what it...

The art museums of Clark Atlanta University and Spelman College, two of the HBCUS in Atlanta, are treasure troves, including works by Henry Ossawa Tanner, Hale Woodruff, Elizabeth Catlett, Fahamu...

Lupita Nyong’o will explore the history of an all-women African army in a new documentary.

Rep. Frederica S. Wilson has introduced the American Teacher Act to incentivize states to increase the minimum K-12 teacher salary to $60,000 and adjust for inflation. 

Investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, analysis of national and world affairs, and cultural criticism that matters.

The “plate” is the real problem

Hampton University announced it is dissolving all Spring 2022 semester student account balances and would not increase tuition, fees, room and board.

We must move past shock and awe to fight homophobia

Black women working full-time make nearly $1 million less than white men during their careers, the National Women’s Law Center recently shared in a research report. While the wage gap affects all...

As a Black woman, I have many reasons to quit Twitter. But I also have strong reasons to stay.

Black art will get the celebration it deserves in upcoming documentary Black Art: In the Absence of Light, A Celebration of African American Artists , coming to HBO Feb. 9. Directed by Sam Pollard,...

Charlie Mitchell of Clover Hill in Brooklyn Heights is the first and only Black Michelin-starred chef in New York City. He hopes he's not the last.

The photographer travelled across the US to make Stranger Fruit – a tribute to the Black mothers raising their sons against a backdrop of police brutality

With the help of high-profile attorney Ben Crump, Lacks' family continues their fight for justice.

The acress extraordinaire sits down with ESSENCE to talk about her role in the latest campaign for L'Oréal Paris.

The Boley rodeo celebrates a certain Black presence in Oklahoma and the history of the Western frontier, as well as its place in Black farming, past and present.

During the holiday season, enslaved Africans often plotted escapes, acts of defiance and violent insurrections during the holidays.

The deeply introspective music in Claudine brings layers of emotional authenticity and nuance to a portrait of Black love and family.

Mabel Fairbanks was the first African-American inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame. Born: Nov. 14, 1915 Died: Sept. 29, 2001 Her story: Fairbanks…

In 1922, Rebecca Latimer Felton, a Georgia women's rights activist and lynching proponent, temporarily filled a dead man's Senate seat

NFL starting quarterbacks are dropping like flies. Saints All-Pro Drew Brees is out with torn thumb ligaments, Big Ben is on the shelf for the Pittsburgh

This is an ode to Black women— because Black women are magic.

Also: He shares viral moments of his Starz spinoffs and what's next

Without good-faith actors, we'll never mend fences

DSU finalized the acquisition of a private college in what the school says is the first case of an HBCU acquiring another institution

Keith Miller’s coming-of-age animated film showcases radical acceptance.

People serving across all have described very negative experiences.

The owner, Rosa Duffy, wants it “to represent the vastness of blackness and allow people to read about their history in a welcoming space.”

Demonstrators took the streets across Brazil this weekend to protest the killing of João Alberto Silveira Freitas, a Black man and father of four, by security officers.

Black women have a long history of wearing hair covers in public

“This Black woman, had she been anybody else — even a straight Black woman would’ve received more support than a queer Black woman with a Black wife,” said Dyson of Griner’s Russian imprisonment.

We’re tired

Student literacy dropped in the majority of states, and among white, Black, Hispanic, and American Indian/Alaska Native students.

Mary E. Jones Parrish’s 1923 book, “Events of the Tulsa Disaster,” continues to educate as a result of her great-granddaughter’s efforts to further her legacy.

I’m a Virgo deconstructs the race and class lines at the heart of the “big Black man.”

Owner Jeannine A. Cook has seen her Philadelphia bookstore through a fire and the coronavirus pandemic. But her mission remains the same.

A statement announcing the award hailed Morrison as “a literary artist of the first rank."

Black people have been telling America about itself for a long time. Someday it might listen.

Ableism forms and informs violence, oppression, and incarceration, yet it continues to be ignored by social justice movements

The previously unpublished collection of essays was edited by The Root's co-founder Henry Louis Gates Jr., along with M. Genevieve West.

Actor Lorraine Toussaint got a call from director Julie Taymor, who was working on a biopic, The Glorias: A Life on the Road. The forthcoming film is centered around the life of famed activist Gloria...

“The number one thing I hear from folks is that the #MeToo movement has forgotten us,” Burke said.

The photographer, curator, and academic founded the Center for Black Visual Culture at NYU to animate conversations about the archive of African American imagery from the 19th century to today.