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It’s time for serious Black folks in this country to make it clear that when we advocate for reparations, it is not requesting some kind of gift from the federal

Somberly I undertake the writing of this article. It’s a report on the many veterans of WWI and WWII who faced persecutions and lynching while in service, and in uniform,

It's impossible to celebrate a national holiday that marks the emancipation of Black people in 1865, writes academic and author Kellie Carter Jackson, without considering the role of education in freedom, which the GOP continues to attack today.

Juneteenth celebrates the day news reached Texas that slavery had been abolished. From there began the struggle as Black Americans sought equality under the law.

It's impossible to celebrate a national holiday that marks the emancipation of Black people in 1865 without considering the role of education in freedom, which the GOP continues to attack today.

The D.C. Council last week held its first-ever hearing on a bill that could lead the District to provide reparations to African American residents harmed by slavery, making the city

Council member Kenyan R. McDuffie (I-At Large) first introduced a reparations bill in the fall of 2020, but this year is the first time the idea is getting a hearing.

Located in Cheltenham, it was one of the top training centers for Black Union Army volunteers in free territories.

TheGrio’s Eboni K. Williams talks to TV correspondent and producer Dana Blair about the complexity of the topic surrounding Black […] The post Do mediocre relationships block blessings for Black women? appeared first on TheGrio.

In the 1950s and ‘60s, Creole families from New Orleans brought the tastes, sounds, and traditions of home to L.A.’s Jefferson Boulevard as they sought new opportunities, jobs, and “freedoms that they had never before experienced.”