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Written by Alisha Magnus-Louis Grammy-nominated songwriter Marcus “Benda World” Boyd joins the cast of OWN’s Ready to Love: Chicago, premiering October 2, 2026, as he prepares…
By Marion Apio, California Local News Fellow Marion Apio reported this story while participating in the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2026 California Health Equity…
By Juliana Mercer I graduated from Marine Corps boot camp a couple weeks before September 11, 2001. I had no idea how profoundly 9/11 would change…
By Wade Henderson, Esq. There are moments when a nation must decide, not simply what it has the legal power to do, but what its sense…
Black voters have been among the Democratic Party’s most dependable supporters for generations. But loyalty and trust are not the same thing. With less than a…
The internet chatter about Black artists struggling to sell concert tickets points to a much larger crisis reshaping the touring business, according to recent industry reporting…
For generations, the conversation about Black wealth has focused on what we do not have: not enough savings, not enough access to capital, not enough homeownership…
An estimated 55,000 consumers will benefit from a $694 million class-action settlement against a predatory auto lender reached by attorneys general in 40 states and the…
In August Wilson’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” Ma Rainey fights to control what happens to her music once she enters the recording studio. Today, musicians are…
Sponsored by McDonald’s. A proud moment at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, where the Herman Petty Room now recognizes a true Chicago trailblazer. In 1968,…