Author: Carma Henry

When Donald Trump was running for the presidency, he promised that, if he was elected, “American worker[s] will finally have a president who will protect them and fight for them.” Today though, safely ensconced in the White House, President Trump is waging a fierce campaign against American workers.

In commemorating that milestone, we recognize and emphasize that. With fewer than half of Black Americans owning their homes, we still have a long way to go to reach economic parity through Black homeownership.

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The statue of Bethune would replace a likeness of Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, who has represented Florida for decades in the Capitol.

We have made great progress in the fight against HIV in the United States. Annual HIV infections and diagnoses have declined in recent years as have HIV-related deaths. But the theme of 2018’s National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day – Stay the Course, the Fight is Not Over!

Most people are familiar with the phrase, “If you are doing what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.” Well, Tanya Wallace-Gobern is one of the lucky ones doing just that. As the Executive Director of the National Black Worker Center Project, she is fulfilling her dream to serve and uplift the Black community. The National Black Worker Center Project is a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy

Perhaps no other voice—or pen—captured the real life of Africans and African Americans like Lerone Bennett Jr., the former editor of EBONY and Jet magazines who died on Wednesday, February 14 at the age of 89.

Black Panther debuted Friday, Feb. 16 and was highly anticipated as many of us were fascinated with seeing a mainly Black cast, a rarity in Hollywood, led by Black Director, Ryan Coogler, another rarity in Hollywood.

According to Entertainment magazine, “Black Panther” is already the eighth-largest single-day gross for the film industry ever and the third-biggest opening for a superhero movie.