ST. LANDRY PARISH, La. — Observing a joyous children’s holiday parade in the Louisiana parish she calls home, Clara LaFleur said that she isn’t surprised that the political power of Black Louisianans ...

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Writer and scholar Alexis Pauline Gumbs makes greens almost every day: chard, kale and — this time of the year — heaping pots ...

Saundra Bishop has many memories inside the idyllic pink, craftsman-styled Alpha Kappa Alpha house in Los Angeles. The space ...

This story was originally published by The Appeal. Twice the number of detainees at Georgia’s notorious Clayton County Jail died in 2024 compared to the previous year. The deaths of eight people ...

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Playing spades under the smooth, lifting flow of old-school R&B, the air thick with the warm embrace of soul food’s aroma, feels like the perfect low-key New Year’s Eve. Yet it’s more than just a ...

A sketched group portrait shows the first black senator, H.M. Revels of Mississippi, and black representatives of the U.S. Congress during the Reconstruction Era following the American Civil War, ...

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Demonstrators march through downtown protesting the death of Tyre Nichols in January 2023 in Memphis, Tennessee. Nichols died after being severely beaten by five Memphis police officers. (Scott ...