North Carolina’s first Black-owned children’s bookstore, the Liberation Station, is kicking off its Juneteenth grand opening weekend in 2023. The store was started by wife and husband team ...

CDC data shows Black Americans are most at risk for drowning. Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s death brings renewed focus to the crisis.

Ozzy Osbourne's final concert with Black Sabbath raised $190 for charity. Proceeds for the July 5 show benefited Cure Parkinson's (which Osbourne suffers from), Birmingham Children's Hospital, and ...

Nearly half of New York City’s Black children will be investigated by child protective services by the time they turn 18, according to a new report published in the Columbia Journal of Race and ...

Willa’s Books, KC’s oldest Black-owned bookstore, closes. Her legacy will live on through The Kansas City Defender’s new community archive mission.

"When we teach our children the truth — that Blackness is vast, radiant, creative and sacred — we start to write a different story. One where we see ourselves and ...

Personal Perspective: Raising proud kids starts with representation. Joy, stories, and racial pride can help children grow confident and resilient every day.

The agency's six-objective plan lays out specific goals to combat suicide and suicidal ideation in young Black people, including strengthening mental health resources, reducing access to firearms ...

The family behind Liberation Station Bookstore, North Carolina's first Black-owned children's bookstore, is raising money to reopen in Raleigh.

Decades later, for her, math still is. Over an almost four-decade career in Oregon, Anderson was a fierce champion of math students, particularly Black children, in Portland Public Schools.

This article, written by Kelvyn Araujo, was originally published in Portuguese on the website of the Jornalistas Pretos — Rede de Jornalistas pela Diversidade na Comunicação (Black Journalists’ ...

Researchers analyzed national health data from 2008 to 2023, uncovering a surge in the most severe obesity categories for children aged 2 to 18 years old.