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Award-winning entertainment reporter Jelisa Raquel turned her own post-grad struggle into the Media Girls Network, a launchpad for women chasing careers in media.

D.C.'s Democratic mayoral nominee has spent September hearing residents out in churches across the city, with education, housing and jobs at the top of the list.

The festival's contract with the city has expired, talks are ongoing, and Baltimore has made it clear it would welcome the nation's biggest celebration of Black women and culture.

The Phoenix Awards closed out the 55th Annual Legislative Conference with a golden anniversary, a Chair's Award for Viola Davis, and a clear message about November.

A knee injury ended Lanny Smith's basketball career in a month. What he built next turned athleisure into a vehicle for Black ownership.

The South Carolina strategist and organizer turned federal funding cuts into the launch of her own firm, Equity In Motion, and she is just getting started.

She danced, mentored, built careers, and reinvented herself again and again. Now Ayahnna Hines is launching a nonprofit to pour into the next generation of girls.

Seven years after a police officer shot and killed Atatiana Jefferson inside her own home, her family has reached a settlement with the city of Fort Worth. The city has agreed to pay 11.25 million dollars to Jefferson’s estate, a figure that brings the total the city will have paid her family to 14.75 million dollars. The Fort Worth City Council is scheduled to take up the settlement on August 25. If approved, the agreement still has to move through a probate court before it

Harmony Edosomwan of Vermont turned Afrofusion cooking and years of community advocacy into a national crown, and a full scholarship to law school.

Born inside a California prison in 1979, Black August honors Black freedom fighters and political prisoners through study, fasting, training, and struggle.

Moet Hennessy sold its stake in the whisky brand it co-launched with Beyonce in 2024. She now owns every percent of a brand named for her great-grandfather, a Prohibition era moonshiner.

Paine College in Augusta erased outstanding institutional balances, clearing the way for former Lions to return and complete their degrees.

Senator Raphael Warnock's ban on private equity firms mass-purchasing single-family homes is now federal law.

Al Sharpton, Martin Luther King III, and a coalition of civil rights groups have called a new March on Washington for August 28 to defend voting rights.

Trump is spending primetime tonight on an election from six years ago. Here's what Black America actually needs him to talk about.

After two rejections from the Patent and Trademark Office, Philomina Kane announced that Satin-Lined Hoodie is now a registered trademark owned by her brand, KIN Apparel.

A Black founder built one of America's fastest-growing whiskey brands. Her fight with a lender is real, and it is more complicated than any caption.

Ben Crump, Al Sharpton, Colin Kaepernick, Tyler Perry, and Byron Allen have stepped forward to fund an independent investigation, cover costs, and demand answers in the death of the 18-year-old Mississippi athlete.

On the eve of the country's 250th birthday, the Justice Department indicted a 67 year old Olympic canoeist for touching a pool. That is the real headline. On July 2, a grand jury in Washington handed up a felony charge against Davey Hearn for destruction of property at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. He faces up to 10 years in prison. His hearing is set for July 9. His alleged crime, according to the government, was reaching into the water during a bike ride and pulling