People who are obese or overweight are at higher risk of developing several chronic diseases. andreswd/E+ via Getty Images
by Loneke Blackman Carr, University of...
By Erick Johnson of The Chicago Crusader
Publishers and owners of Chicago’s Black media organizations have banded together, urging Mayor Brandon Johnson to keep his...
African American Mayors Association 2024 Conference photo
by Stephanie Gadlin, The Chicago Crusader
New York Mayor Eric Adams has vowed to fight the five-count federal indictment...
One of the first dilemmas that Black people face is whether to let strangers touch their hair – and under what circumstances. Thomas Mukoya/Reuters
by...
When California’s Democratic Attorney General Kamala Harris was elected to the US Senate in 2016, an Associated Press headline boasted: California’s Kamala Harris becomes...
Demonstrators protest the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., in August 2014. Joshua Lott/AFP/Getty Images
by Seanna Leath, Washington University in St. Louis...
Oak Park, Montgomery’s first park, was white-only until the mid-1960s. Binita Mahato, CC BY-ND
by Binita Mahato, Auburn University
Montgomery, Alabama, touts itself as the birthplace...
1904 Olympic marathon participants Len Tau (left) and Jan Mashiani of South Africa. Missouri History Museum
by Francois Cleophas, Stellenbosch University
Who were the first Africans...
