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Black Edutainers bring History to Life

Philadelphia resident Antoine Randolph Watts likes to dress up. But most of his outfits are out of date. Like 200 years out of date.And...

Broderick Johnson is His Brother’s Keeper

Broderick Johnson sees young black men on America’s streets taking long drags off short smokes.“It’s the idleness,” said Johnson, a Baltimore native and advisor...

Criminal Justice Reform Snagged in Campaign Politics

Planned reforms to federal drug and sentencing laws that imprisoned many African-Americans have become locked up by election-year politics.“The cost of incarceration and a...

Criminal Justice Reform Snagged in Campaign Politics

Planned reforms to federal drug and sentencing laws that imprisoned many African-Americans have become locked up by election-year politics.“The cost of incarceration and a...

Churches Go Green, Save Green, Clean God’s Green Earth

The biggest challenge at the Reverend Dr. Earl D. Trent, Jr.’s historic black church is raising enough money to do the Lord’s work.Trent, pastor...

Was it Civil Rights or a Movement?

They fought for integration, equal education and voter registration.There were Freedom Rides, a march on Washington and mayhem on Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge. There...

From civil war to civil rights, Frank Smith lives Black History

Frank Smith, Jr. emerged from a Mississippi jail and learned that he was wanted — by Uncle Sam.The 20-year-old civil rights worker had been...

Foreclosure crisis still hammers African-Americans

Willie Ann Lytle faced foreclosure on her home two days before Halloween. So she filed for bankruptcy to save it.Lytle’s parents bought the cheerful...

The Hollywood Diversity Fix

There’s nothing new about #OscarsSoWhite. Once upon a time, Hollywood’s diversity battle stretched as far as The White House.For the second year in a...

Artist Misses New Orleans 10 Mardi Gras Since Katrina

Jennifer Renee Johnson desperately misses New Orleans during Mardi Gras. But the New Orleans she misses, she says, no longer exists.Johnson is one of...
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