Carolyn E. Howell and Amber Batchelor, founders of Destination Must Visit® Tourism Alliance, Inc., have reached a major milestone after their Black woman-led 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization was awarded a $2.4 million contract to strengthen tourism and hospitality in College Park, Georgia, a suburb of Metro Atlanta. Their organization is legally registered to do business in the states of both Maryland and Georgia.
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With the passing of Rosetta Miller-Perry, founder and publisher of the Tennessee Tribune, Black America has lost a courageous publisher, a civil rights advocate, an entrepreneur, and a woman whose life’s work ensured that our stories would never be ignored.
A U.S. Supreme Court decision has dramatically altered the future of hundreds of thousands of Haitian immigrants living in the United States, clearing the way for the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti and move forward with deportation efforts.
The U.S. Supreme Court has handed down a significant 5-4 decision that preserves the ability of states to count mail-in ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive within a legally established grace period. The ruling rejects an effort backed by President Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee to invalidate such ballots, reinforcing the authority of states to administer their own elections.
AFRO-AMERICAN – WASHINGTON — THE AFRO — “The white artists in the first generations of rock and roll would acknowledge where their music was coming from. They would talk about the fact that they were being influenced by Black American music,” said Maureen Mahon, professor of music at New York University (NYU). “But the people who were writing about it or retelling the story didn’t make that the focus. The emphasis was on the white artists.”
Logan Wells, a rising senior from Columbia, South Carolina, has been crowned Miss South Carolina’s Teen, becoming just the second African American woman to earn the title in the past 24 years. Her historic victory follows the groundbreaking achievement of Danielle Wilson, who was crowned in 2002 and remained the only African American titleholder until Wells’ recent win.
HBCUs were established to educate Black Americans who were denied access to many predominantly white institutions. Land-grant universities and church-supported colleges across the country created opportunities for higher education, but they also fostered a powerful sense of belonging and cultural expression.
Registering for the Selective Service simply means a person’s information is entered into a system that could be used in the event of a national emergency. Being drafted, however, would only occur if the government officially reinstates the draft and begins calling individuals to serve in the military.
As corporations scaled back Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives and government agencies faced sweeping cuts, Black women were among the hardest hit. Between spring and late 2025, more than 300,000 Black women either lost jobs, left the workforce or were pushed out of employment, according to labor data and economic reports tracking the crisis. Unemployment among Black women climbed from 5.4% to as high as 7.3% by the end of the year — one of the steepest increases of any demographic group.
Julie Marie Windle, a white mother and nurse from Toledo, Ohio, appears in a viral video where she yells a racial slur at her biracial son, Brian Windle. The video spread online after ge posted it on Facebook, quickly drawing wide attention.