Police Brutality

In Fairfax County, Virginia, police officers aggressively approached and pointed their guns at a bystander who was filming them.

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Pharrell Williams’ nonprofit has teamed up with the tech company Cisco to bridge the digital divide amongst youth.

Race Matters

Charlottesville mother Melissa Riley is among other plaintiffs suing the Albemarle County School Board because she blames an anti-racism curriculum for making her biracial son identify as "just a Black man." She said it has caused "racial issues" in her home.

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101-year-old Merrill Pittman Cooper recently received an honorary diploma.

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Trailblazing basketball legend Earl Lloyd—the first Black player to compete in an NBA game—was recently honored by the city of Alexandria.

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Tiffany Capri Hainesworth made history as the first Black woman to solely own a tequila brand.

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The Bray School—the nation’s oldest standing schoolhouse for African American children—recently received a $5 million preservation grant.

Listed are 10 popular books about the black American experience that republicans want to ban.

Police in Luray, Virginia quickly forgave and didn't arrest Amelia King, an anti-mask parent shown on video at a Page County School Board meeting threatening to bring "loaded" guns to her kids' school in protest of the mask mandate she opposes.

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Norfolk State University awarded music visionary Pharrell Williams with an honorary doctorate degree.

Charlottesville City Council came to an agreement to melt down the Robert E. Lee monument and give a local African-American history museum the task of creating something more reflective of the city’s diversity with its remains.

Violence against black women is a growing epidemic, with spikes happening all over the country. Black women are constantly in the crosshairs of physical and mental abuse, usually by someone who claims to love them.