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Songstress Ashanti has made history as the first Black woman music artist to be the co-founder of a Web3 platform.

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A Black woman-owned, Chicago-based grocery store created to address the city’s food deserts received a $2.5 million grant.

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Detroit’s first Black women-owned skating academy strives to make figure skating lessons accessible to youth living in low-income households.

Race Matters

A 15-year-old freshman at Vandebilt Catholic High School in Houma, Louisiana, was arrested Tuesday on battery and hate crime charges for throwing cotton balls at a Black student then whipping him with his belt.

A Lansing, Ohio white woman is facing serious prison time after she threatened several state Representatives through voicemail.

News

Former Ku Klux Klan leader Chester Doles tried to run for Lumpkin County Board of Commissioners District 3 but was disqualified because he's a felon who didn't meet the requirements to run, according to the Georgia Republican Party.

Education

A new study illuminates the value each HBCU provides to the specific communities in which they're located and accounts for racial disparities that hurt Black earnings.

Good News

NBA star Stephen Curry has signed on as an executive producer for a documentary about the life and legacy of basketball legend Lusia ‘Lucy’ Harris.

Race Matters

Jussie Smollett's brother, Jocqui Smollett, is pointing fingers at the Black community for our lack of support for his brother's hate crime allegation saying, "Our community innately has a lot of homophobia in it."

Race Matters

Jacob Rush, a straight-A student at Abeka Academy in Pensacola, Florida, was being forced by school administrators to cut his locs in order to participate in his graduation ceremony until his mother,  Latrenda Rush, started a Change.org petition in protest, gaining over 53,000 signatures.

While speaking with Fox News's Tucker Carlson on March. 15, the Daily Wire podcast host lit into the publication's choice to honor, Levin, who in March 2021, became the nation's first openly transgender federal health official.

Education

During a demonstration that saw multiple Howard University professors in attendance along with students, some faculty members threatened to execute a strike if certain working conditions are not addressed.