Kyrie Irving speaks out against the viral term ‘YN’ trending among Black youths online during a recent live stream. Kyrie ...

Dallas-based founder of Black Girls in Art Spaces, Kaci Merriwether-Hawkins, who facilitates spaces for young Black women to learn and engage with the arts, is shown at Pencil on Paper Gallery in ...

Discover how Colah B. Tawkin, host of 'Black in the Garden' podcast, is celebrating Black people's relationship with nature ...

Two years later, on June 19, 1865, 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, to announce that the 250,000 enslaved Black people in the state were free by an executive decree.

To stand up and identify oneself as Black by the late 1960s and onward was an act of defiance against a history that debased blackness. It was also an affirmation that an oppressed people could ...