Missing Black News Today

A slew of new laws signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom are set to take effect next year.

Skittles remains untouched in California's Red Dye No. 3 debate, defying rumors of a sweeping 'Skittles ban"—dive into the full controversy.

Gov. Newsom signed a new California law (that creates the Ebony Alert) that can help track down young people of color who have disappeared.

By Robert J. Hansen | Special to The OBSERVER California/Hawaii NAACP President Rick Callender speaks to NAACP members before meetings with California

Poet Patricia Smith, poet and Executive Director of JustMedia Mahogany Browne, choreographer Davalois Fearon and students in the spring Princeton Atelier

Poet Patricia Smith, Poet and Executive Director of JustMedia Mahogany Browne, choreographer Davalois Fearon and students in the spring Princeton Atelier course “How to Find a Missing Black Woman” collaborated over the past semester to craft a multimedia theatrical production that shines an unflinching light on the problem of missing Black women and girls. Open to public; no tickets required.

Ilya Kaminsky, professor of creative writing at Princeton, and Patricia Smith, visiting professor of creative writing, have been named Academy of American Poets Chancellors. Smith will join the Princeton faculty effective Sept. 1.

County prosecutor's office states that Princeton University student Misrach Ewunetie, who was last seen on Oct. 14, died by suicide.

Black children go missing at alarming rates but never seem to get the same amount of social media attention as their white counterparts.

We have been missing our beloved Reggie "Higgy Baby" since Monday, April 18. He was last seen in the Deschamba...