D’Angelo was a defining voice of late-20th- and early-21st-century R&B, an artist whose work helped shape the sound and sensibility of neo-soul. Across three landmark albums, Brown Sugar, Voodoo and Black Messiah, he fused church-honed musicianship with hip-hop rhythm and…
Assata Shakur, the Black Liberation Army member convicted in the 1973 killing of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster, fugitive since 1979, and the first woman placed on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list, has died at 78. Cuba’s Foreign…
Dr. Quintard Taylor, the distinguished historian of African American history and founder of BlackPast.org, has died at 77. Born in Brownsville, Tennessee, Taylor built a towering academic legacy documenting Black life across the United States, especially in the American West.…
James E. Ferguson II, a towering figure in the civil rights legal movement who spent more than five decades dismantling racial injustice in schools and courtrooms, died on July 21 in Charlotte, N.C. He was 82. His son, James Ferguson…
The first Monday in September is more than just the unofficial close of summer in the United States, it is a day set aside to honor the labor day and the workers whose contributions built the nation. But for Black…
