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Engineer’s ‘Hustle’ becomes successful construction company

When low income families cannot get access to fresh produce, why not take the produce to them

State of Emergency declared in 66 counties ahead of Hurricane Matthew

Zianna Oliphant, a young girl from North Carolina, has won national attention after she recently delivered an emotional speech at a Charlotte City Council meeting about the police brutality epidemic in the Black community

Newly released footage shows a police officer from Lorain, Ohio slamming Pele Smith, a 32-year old African American man who was handcuffed at the time, into his police cruiser so hard that it cracked the windshield, and caused the glass to shatter.

Performing Strong Black Womanhood at the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Chess champion Orrin “Checkmate” Hudson from Stone Mountain, GA, has been chosen by Disney Studios to help promote their new film Queen of Katwe starring Oscar award-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave) and actor David Oyelowo (Selma, The Butler).

Karl Smith, a 38-year old man from Chicago, has recently come forth to make a shocking court-room confession admitting that he was the one who committed a crime that earned his twin brother a 54-year prison sentence

But in most places, communities of color still have little meaningful say in how their states manage and resource education.

The little-known Black billionaire who made a $20 million donation to the African American Smithsonian Museum