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Julia Cherner/ABC News (WASHINGTON) — More than 2,000 people have served in the U.S. Senate since it was established in 1789. But just 12 have been Black — and only three have been Black women, none of whom have ever served together. That could soon change. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Prince George County, Maryland, Executive […]
Kelli Merrick/500px/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Old images of African Americans picking cotton remind many of the oppression suffered by generations of Black slaves before the Emancipation Proclamation. For Black Americans in particular, their history with this famous crop, that helps clothe the world, is complicated. Now Julius Tillery, a Black cotton farmer in North […]
GM chief engineer Dom Lester mentors young minorities and women who are pursuing careers in vehicle engineering. (General Motors) (NEW YORK) — Dom Lester has a long and enviable list of accomplishments at General Motors, where’s he worked for the last 25 years. As the company’s chief engineer for performance variants, parts and motorsports engineering, […]
JGI/Jamie Grill/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — When her firstborn child estranged herself from the family after getting married, Glenda Boone, 61, thought her daughter’s new husband was to blame for turning her child against her. It took Boone’s second daughter, Lauren, 32, to explain to her that even though their mother and father were always […]
ArtistGNDphotography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Black Friday sales did gangbusters as the nation enters a holiday shopping season expected to test shoppers, who account for nearly three-quarters of U.S. economic activity. Consumers spent a record $9.8 billion online on Black Friday, which marks a 7.5% increase over the year prior, according to Adobe Analytics. Shopper […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Despite a gradual slowdown in investment opportunities for Black businesses, Daymond John is determined to rewrite the narrative through Black Entrepreneurs Day. John, CEO of FUBU and co-star of ABC’s “Shark Tank,” started Black Entrepreneurs Day in 2020 to celebrate innovation and enterprise in the Black community. Black Entrepreneurs Day, […]
Feldhaar Christian/EyeEm/Getty Images (SHILOH, Ala.) — Deep in rural southeastern Alabama, nestled in the nook of a highway just outside Elba, sits a tiny, close-knit community known locally as Shiloh. After generations of vibrant family life, the residents of this historically Black neighborhood fear it may not survive beyond them. They point to a highway […]
George Family Photo (TEXAS) — The family of a Black Texas high school student who was suspended over his dreadlocks filed a federal lawsuit Saturday against Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the state’s Attorney General Ken Paxton for allegedly not enforcing the state’s CROWN Act, a law which protects from hair discrimination. The family filed […]
George Family Photo (MONT BELVIEU, Texas) — A Black Texas high school student has been facing an in-school suspension (ISS) for weeks because school officials said that his dreadlocks violated their dress and grooming code. Darryl George, a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, has been sitting on a small stool at school […]
LWA/Dann Tardif/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Fetal mortality rates declined among Black women in 2020 but were much higher than other racial/ethnic groups in the U.S., new federal data shows. A report, published early Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics, looked at data from the National Vital […]
