As Black History Month gets underway, unemployment among African Americans is the lowest in the history of the government’s job-related tracking which began in 1972. President...
It took more than 34 years after Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday became a federal holiday for the state of Arkansas to celebrate the Civil Rights...
On her father’s birthday, Berniece King tweeted, “Happy Birthday Daddy.” And, she reminded America of the key role her mother, Coretta Scott King, played in preserving...
Mayor Ras Baraka became the 40th Mayor of the City of Newark in July of 2014. From the launch of a social impact venture fund to...
America lost two champions of humanity on December 10, 2017. Roy Reed, Arkansas’ own civil rights journalist, and Simeon Booker, a long time Washington, D.C. Bureau...
I remember waking up, then slightly blinking my eyes to avoid being blinded by the sun, then immediately rolling over and reaching for my iPhone 7. No...
Jabari Erwin grew up knowing that his time was short. And for a longtime he was in a dark place. He wasn’t thinking about college. He...
Carl Chinn was having coffee with his wife and watching the news when he heard a report that made him shiver: a gunman was at large...
When the panic system alarm sounded at the Focus on the Family Center, Carl Chinn thought one of the receptionists was doing a test. He rushed...
In the midst of the Harvey Weinstein travesty, let’s not forget government stats show Black women are dying in record numbers from domestic violence. Shanikia Johnson....