14-year-old Zaila Avant-garde became the first Black American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee in the competition’s 96-year history.
President Joe Biden signed into law yesterday a bill that made Juneteenth — the anniversary of the day the last enslaved Americans learned of their freedom — a federal holiday.
The existence of racial disparities in health care treatment has been widely recognized for decades. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, has reinforced how deadly this unequal medical treatment can be.
'The Underground Railroad' meticulously displays one of history’s most shameful and violent eras without lingering in sadism.
Lola Velázquez-Aguilu answered the call to serve as a special prosecutor, while Zurizadai Balmakund-Santiago insisted on being a part of the team pursuing accountability for the murder of George Floyd
On May 5, Democratic Representative Grace Meng of New York and Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii introduced the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act in response to the extreme increase in anti-Asian hate crimes over the last year.
Composers of color are still rare in Hollywood. Here’s how some in the industry are working to change that.
One Minneapolis city council member, Andrea Jenkins, told USA Today that the city’s plan was not to spread propaganda, but to establish a more direct line of communication between the government and city residents.
A recent WMC-hosted panel on the legacy of U.S. violence is a deep resource for all those covering and writing about the southern border and immigration policy.
The Mahjong Line — a company that produces tiles for mahjong, a tile game with major Chinese cultural and historical significance — was recently “canceled” by thousands of social media users for cultural appropriation.
White-passing or not, I only exist because my ancestors endured the unimaginable.
Apologists for cultural poseurs make plain the cleavages festering in our movements because of anti-blackness, internalized colonization, machismo and elitism.
Racial and ethnic grifting is a settler-colonial tradition that’s as American as Dutch apple pie.
The author, Wells’ great-granddaughter, aims to introduce the journalist, activist, and anti-lynching leader “to a younger generation and other people who might not be as familiar with her life.”
Since The Bachelor and The Bachelorette started in 2002 and 2003 respectively, only three leads have not been white.
I believe there are three global crises that are related to the catastrophes of climate and the coronavirus: racial injustice, economic inequality, and a crisis of democracy.
Brown envisioned the creation of a program anchored by Black women and girls in the South that is today known as the Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium (SBGWC), a union of four organizations led by four Black women in the South
Jane Fonda's call to action: There is still time for us to act to minimize the impact of the climate crisis. According to the U.S. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, hundreds of millions of lives hang in the balance with every half degree of warming we either enable or avoid.
The Confederate soldier-turned-Union spy published her own story. The South buried it.
The film centers on a Taiwanese American girl named Christy, who is struggling to process both her parents’ divorce and the new family dynamics that come with it.
If we continue to see ourselves outside of Blackness, we risk becoming the ball and chain of the anti racism movement.
The corporate sector has refused to be ahead of the curve in diversity even though we’ve been sounding the alarm all along.
I was so excited we finally made our trip happen, I didn’t think to prepare myself for how we’d be perceived in Indonesia as two Black girls from Africa.
Most of my childhood was spent in small-town eastern Pennsylvania suburbs with my white mother and white-passing older brother. I was one of the only Black people in my community.