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In 2002, New Jersey passed an NJ Black history law that most Americans — including many New Jersey educators — have never heard of. It made the history and contributions of Africans and African Americans mandatory across every subject, every grade level, all year long. Not just in February. All of it. Dr. Patrick J. […]
Why Documenting Family Stories Cannot Wait A few weeks ago I took a photo holding my mother’s picture. It was for a special my news team was producing — a reflection on the women of the Black Information Network and what Black Motherhood means to us. It was a professional assignment. But sitting there holding […]
A conversation with Dr. Pierre Johnson — and the moment I had to be honest about my own choices Black women with fibroids are diagnosed at two to three times the rate of white women. Their disease is more advanced by the time they get care. And when they walk into a doctor’s office looking […]
What Dr. IIbram Kendi’s Chain of Ideas Is Really About I want to tell you something about what it takes to sit across from someone whose work you deeply respect and ask them to open up a conversation that most people would rather avoid. Before I sat down to interview Ibram Kendi about Chain of […]
She is 18 years old. She is headed to Columbia University to study human rights. And she carries one of the most recognizable names in American history. But when I sat down to talk with Yolanda Renee King — the only granddaughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King — what moved […]
How Sharell Matthis Survived Homelessness With Six Kids Black family homelessness in America does not always look the way most people picture it. Sharell Matthis had a home, a husband, six children, and a life she had built piece by piece. And then one morning, the pieces stopped holding together. Sharell Matthis did not choose […]