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Photo credit: Sonya Smith As a young Black woman coming of age, Alora Young traced her life back through generations of Southern women. She's 19, and the 2021 Youth Poet Laureate of the Southern United States. Her debut book Walking Gentry Home archives her family's history – and the legacy of slavery in the American South – in the form of a memoir in verse. Here's the very first poem […]

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 […]

Lupita Nyong’O as Nakia in Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios. © 2022 MARVEL. The trailer for Wakanda Forever, the sequel to Marvel’s critically-acclaimed, fan-favorite film Black Panther, is finally here and its drop,  brought with it a slew of emotions from fans. I, for one, watched the trailer twice; once with my sisters in emotional silence and then for a second time by myself, […]