Black country music ‘renaissance’ forces genre to reckon with racial history
The growing popularity of Black country artists, spurred in part by Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter,” has sparked a conversation ...
Yes, Black People Celebrate Kwanzaa! Here’s Why
We lit our candles each day on the kinara, and revisited each of the seven principles, intended to instill values that could ...
Turning tragedy into purpose: Gabby Petito’s father advocates for missing Black and brown people
Joseph Petito has spent the last three years advocating for missing Black and brown people through the Gabby Petito ...
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More than 60 years later, Langston Hughes’ ‘Black Nativity’ is still a pillar of African American theater
But Hughes is one of a handful of artists whose work spanned both the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement of the ...
Historic Black church in Rocky Mount, turning into community hub and learning center
It most recently served as a beauty salon in 2019 and has been sitting vacant since then. Now, it’s turning into a cultural ...
Black boxes of downed Azerbaijani jet recovered as questions mount over Russian involvement. Here’s what we know
Early indications suggest a Russian anti-aircraft system may have downed the passenger jet that crashed in Kazakhstan, a US ...
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Kwanzaa begins as Black Cultural Initiative prepares for community celebration
Each year, millions of people around the U.S. ring in the new year with Kwanzaa, the annual celebration of the African ...
Biden commutes sentences of federal death row inmates, ‘striking blow’ to system that has ‘always targeted Black people’
Biden's historic commutation of death row inmates will not include prisoners who committed terrorism and hate-motivated ...
Opioids have been killing the same generation of Black men in Chicago for decades
Black men born 1951-1970 always have had the greatest risk of dying of overdoses, even in their 20s, 30s and 40s. It's true ...
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The year in Black culture, according to UATL reporter Brooke Howard
She is a testament of Black women’s perseverance. Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter,” because it was a TERRRRRRIBLE attempt at country. TERRIBLE, and people are still lying about it. Kendrick Lamar’s album is ...