The 2022 midterm elections are upon us, and more than determining which party controls Congress, it will impact policy in the immediate future. While state and local elections play an important role in our daily lives, Congress can provide meaningful resources and legislative frameworks to protect ...
In a major new study, Black Americans expressed broad concerns about how they are depicted in the news media, with majorities saying they see racist or negative depictions and a lack of effort by journalists to cover broader segments of their community.
In 2022, Congress passed the African-American Burial Grounds Preservation Act as a program within the National Park Service; efforts are ongoing toensure funding. Last year, Florida passed a bill to fund restoration of historic Black cemeteries. Dunn says the state should also...
And young voters aren’t the only key demographic in Michigan that has been upended by the war in Gaza. Arab Americans make up about 4 percent of thestate population(thehighest shareof any state in the country), and many prominent Arab American leaders ...
Black History EveryWeek: Twenty-three Black Americans in Congress before 1900Quaries, Benjamin
The 2022 Equality Index, the National Urban League’s semi-annual calculation of the social and economic status of African Americans relative to whites, is 73.9%, slightly up from the revised 2020 Index of 73.7%. Rooted in the Three-Fifths Compromise of 1787, which counted enslaved African Ame...
Created by William Patterson and the Civil Rights Congress, the “We Charge Genocide” petition suggested the United States committed genocide against African Americans based on the outlines put forth by the U.N. Genocide Convention. More than 150 hate crimes that took place over the previous six...
Janine gives Diane a white Girlstory doll for her birthday, and when Bow tries to return it for a black doll, she is shocked by the limited options offered. Dre blames the lack of representation of African Americans in the media, but when confronting this systematic problem, he realizes tha...
In a segregated, post-Civil War country, historically Black colleges and universities provided Black Americans – who were often denied access to existing higher education institutions – with a quality education. These colleges are still some of the country's top producers of Black doctors, scientis...
Republicans targeted Vasquez’s seat after he beat Herrell in 2022, who served one term in Congress before losing to him. The district, which includes the state’s border with Mexico, is largely rural with a significant Latino population. Both Herrell and Vasquez ran...