From Whitney Houston to Aretha Franklin, producer and record executive Clive Davis had a hand in shaping some of pop and R&B’s biggest names.
Prominent lawyers join appeal of teen convicted in fatal stabbing, challenging jury selection process.
BLD PWR’s Juneteenth Weekend was so much more than a simple celebration. It was a testament to what can happen when you choose community over status.
From Reconstruction to affirmative action, gains for Black Americans have a history of triggering efforts to repeal them.
One freedom marker reminds us that liberation can be delayed, and the other reminds us that visibility is not the same as safety.
James Dolan sold his roster out by accepting the president’s invite. Now it’s up to the players to decide whether to continue the silent White House boycott.
When Black women exceed expectations, blessings become sources of discomfort, disrupting assumptions about how should possess back amounts of care, comfort, and joy.
Before Kohen Wiley was shot, his mother lifted him up so police officers could see there was a child in the car.
As Big Chief Shaka Zulu explained, when drum machine, lyric, rhythm, and movement lock in, dancers enter trance.
The 2-K program is open for enrollment now at myschools.nyc – children start this fall, with a goal of universal childcare by year four.
In gubernatorial races, the primary elections have yielded mixed results for President Donald Trump-endorsed candidates.
The Bison ONE Newsroom is a groundbreaking, first-of-its-kind partnership between a national media corporation and an HBCU journalism program—a partnership that honors the power of HBCUs as incubators of cultural and political transformation.
'Freedom Table' is a new monthly conversation with organizers, journalists, business leaders, strategists, and culture-makers, hosted by Rashad Robinson in collaboration with NewsOne.
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Each week on Le[e]gal Brief, movement lawyer Lee Merritt gives legal insight on the week's top news topics.
There is a ghost roaming the halls of Pickens County Museum in South Carolina and his name is Willie Earle.
Nina Simone and Same Cooke are two Black artists who decided the message was more important than their commercial success.
Hundreds of days of sewing, prayer, thought, sacrifice, creative energy, and communal labor gather in the beadwork.
The brilliance of Ryan Coogler's Sinners Surreal Montage is it doesn't treat Black music as a straight line, but rather as a circle.
The ROAD to Housing Act passed the Senate 85-5, with the House expected to pass it quickly with similar bipartisan support.
U.S. District Court Judge Sparkle Sooknanan ordered DHS to stop allowing states to use a centralized national database of citizens built for checking immigration status to screen their voter rolls.
President Donald Trump has not been able to stop talking about the reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial for the last few months.
Daphne Hawkins filed a civil lawsuit alleging her sons were subjected to racial harassment and a racist curriculum, among other things.
At a certain point, you’d think the Missouri state legislature would take the hint, but nope, the state attorney general intends to appeal the ruling.
1-year-old Kohen Wiley killed by police during alleged shoplifting incident, sparking outrage over police accountability.
Baltimore mayor demystifies Black fatherhood with stroller walk, challenging stereotypes with data and personal experience.
Twin sisters Tia and Jasmin Criss, seniors at Cheyney University, to graduate as valedictorian and salutatorian, defying expectations.
As formal Black cultural institutions face unprecedented attacks, a Brooklyn spades tournament is a reminder that some traditions were never theirs to take.
Alligator Alcatraz, located in Florida’s swamplands, has been a constant source of controversy due to its allegedly inhumane conditions.
In Boston, two enterprising children who set up a lemonade stand in the city were victims of an armed robbery that was more like a smash-and-grab this week.
Senior U.S. officials dictated the 14 points of the memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran to reporters over the phone.
For nearly a week, a cold storage facility in Boyle Heights has been on fire, sparking concerns in Los Angeles over air quality and toxic fumes.
UPDATE — Tuesday, June 23, 2026, 12:35 p.m. EST: We love our Black celebrities. Period. No matter how famous they get or how big the stages become, there’s always a different kind of pride that comes with seeing Black folks win. It feels personal, like their success is proof that we can make it too, […]
While Republican-led state legislatures rushed to draw new congressional maps to protect their House majority, voter anger may derail those efforts.
The conflict in Iran led to the prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz, creating a bottleneck on the global oil supply and driving up prices.
Jackson Lahmeyer, a Trump-endorsed megachurch pastor, advanced to a runoff election for one of Oklahoma’s U.S. House seats on Tuesday.
Jeffrey Feigenbaum of Plainfield, Illinois, is charged with two counts of hate crime and one count each of misdemeanor battery and disorderly conduct.
There's a recent trend on social media in which content creators say the phrase "sit down" as a white mom, then a Black mom, then an Asian mom, then an Indian mom.
The one area where the WNBA hasn’t quite kept pace with its own growth is its logo, which still features an anonymous silhouette.
Kohen Kartier Wiley's June 14 death has caused protests to break out across the city of Senatobia, including at city hall on Tuesday.