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Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. Transcript : JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: All summer long, we've been hearing about how she's fallen in love and quit her job and needs new motivation and is building up her new foundation. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BREAK MY SOUL") BEYONCE: (Singing) Oh, baby, baby, you won't break my soul. You won't break my soul. You won't break my soul. You won't break my […]

Blackbird Collective, located in Culver City, Calif., was created with the intention to empower women of color and allies in the entrepreneurship and creative fields to create positive change for each other and the world. Here, a portion of the workspace used by members. When Lisa Gordon set out to find the perfect coworking space for her new business, she knew she wanted one that met all of her needs. […]

Updated July 31, 2022 at 6:00 PM ET LOS ANGELES - JANUARY 19: Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Nyota Uhura in the STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES episode, "Arena." Original air date January 19, 1967. Image is a screen grab. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images) Actress and singer Nichelle Nichols, best known as Star Trek's communications officer Lieutenant Uhura, died Saturday night in Silver City, New Mexico. She was 89 […]

In 1968, Charles M. Schulz introduced the first Black character to his famous comic strip; Franklin joined Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang. Over the years, the low-key, friendly character was an inspiration to generations of Peanuts fans. Now, more than half a century later, Peanuts Worldwide has created The Armstrong Project in his honor to support up-and-coming Black writers, animators and cartoonists. The new initiative […]

Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Brandon Perea in Jordan Peele's latest film, NOPE. The film Nope stars Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer as siblings and horse wranglers living in a small California town where things get weird, people disappear, and a threat must be stopped. Jordan Peele wrote and directed the film, so there are bound to be some surprises. So we're hitching a ride on horseback into spoiler territory. Copyright […]

The dictionary aims to be the first to complete the task at this magnitude. Black Americans have long contributed to the ways in which the English language is used, and now a new research project aims to compile the first Oxford Dictionary of African American English. "Finally we will have a space that recognizes our language in a way that encompasses all the people within African American language communities," said […]

Castor (Reginald Smith Jr.) and Patience (Talise Trevigne) toast to their reunion before discussion what motivates Castor's visit to the sea island homestead. Cincinnati — A new opera, Castor and Patience, takes on the pervasive barriers to land ownership for Black Americans. With a libretto by former poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith and a score by composer Gregory Spears, the opera tells the story of two […]