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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...
In the fast-changing world of sports marketing, few names embody innovation, representation, and grit like Peter Iwuh. At a time when the Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) movement is transforming the...
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...
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...
Stefon Diggs was born on November 29, 1993, in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Raised in a tight-knit family, Diggs assumed responsibility early after his father’s passing in 2008, helping to guide his...
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...
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...
Sharon Chuter, the Nigerian-born entrepreneur who reshaped the beauty industry with her unapologetic push for diversity, has died at the age of 38 in Los Angeles. Authorities say she was found on a...
The California Black Freedom Fund, born in 2020 at the height of national protests following the murder of George Floyd, is embarking on an ambitious effort to secure its future: the creation of a...