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In the city of Freddie Gray and The Wire, Black farmers and vegans are fighting food apartheid and climate change. BY JESSE JAMES DECONTO Climate, Food Justice, Nutrition, Urban Agriculture Posted on: November 5, 2019  |  2 Comments    On a […]

#NNPA BLACKPRESS Published  October 31, 2019 By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia NNPA NEWSWIRE — Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), the chair of the CBC, said suspending flights from the United States to all […]

Oct 22, 2019 | Community Orlando, FL (AP) — Around 84 percent of Americans definitely or probably plan to answer the questions on the 2020 Census, according to a new survey released Friday. The Pew […]

By Sara MacNeil, Montgomery Advertiser Montgomery, a city where more than half the population is black and known as the birthplace of the civil rights movement, elected an African American to the highest position in […]

By Sarah Ruiz-Grossman (HUFFPOST) The senator and congresswoman want to invest in more affordable housing ― a dire need in their home state of California. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), who is running for president, introduced a bill […]

Black millennial dubbed southern political director for Biden by Jeri Yonder Philadelphia. Pa.—When Vince Evans entered the world of politics, he was a teenager starting a week-long stint as a page in the Florida Senate. […]

Racial disparity for black Americans is more apparent around heart disease. Sept. 19, 2019, 2:58 PM EDT By Nick Charles Conversations about income inequality and pay equity have been elevated in recent years so much so […]

Sept. 6, 2019, 10:34 AM EDT By Nick Charles A few months ago, Jessica B. Harris, the expert of African American culinary history and writing, was inducted in the Cookbook Hall of Fame of the James […]

(Travel & Leisure) Images of the Bahamas battered by Hurricane Dorian are everywhere. And while the storm’s impact on several islands was severe, some of the best-known islands in the country emerged unscathed. There are […]

UPDATED ON: SEPTEMBER 10, 2019 / 3:08 PM / CBS NEWS President Trump touted his administration’s economic record for African-Americans during the 2019 National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week Conference in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, insisting […]