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Charles Caldwell was never meant to have a voice. Mississippi’s White ruling class made sure of it. He was part of Mississippi’s silenced majority in 1860 — 436,600 enslaved people to 354,000 White people, according to the Census — who would be granted full citizenship after the Civil War. By 1868, Caldwell was one of […]
ST. PAUL, Minn. , April 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The Mother Baby Center, a partnership between Allina Health and Children’s Minnesota , is proud to announce The Mother Baby Center in St. Paul has been recognized for its success in supporting Black maternal health by U.S. News & World Report for Black Maternal Health . . […]
Black immigrants are a growing share of the country’s population and make up 8% of all immigrants. Nearly half (47%) of Black immigrants in the U.S. are from the Caribbean, while about four in ten (43%) are from sub-Saharan Africa, with smaller shares coming from South America and . . .
President Joe Biden of the United States, US, on Thursday said black women in America are more prone to die during pregnancy than their white counterparts. Biden said this has made the Black Maternal Health Week an urgent call for action. Posting on X, Biden said his administration is addressing the disparities the black community […]
The Black jobless rate climbed sharply in March, with Black women seeing particularly large drops in employment and overall labor-force participation. The overall unemployment <-rte-company state=”{“_id”:”0000018e-af4b-d32b-a5ff-bf7bd7f90000″,”_type”:”00000160-4b23-d8bd-adfd-4b3348fd0000″}”>rate-rte-company> for Black Americans rose to 6.4%, matching a high last reached in August 2022, from 5.6% in February, according to Labor Department data released Friday. The rate for Black […]
Old images of African Americans picking cotton remind many of the oppression suffered by generations of Black slaves before the Emancipation Proclamation. For Black Americans in particular, their history with this famous crop, that helps clothe the world, is complicated. Now Julius Tillery, a Black cotton farmer in North Carolina, is working to turn cotton’s […]
I watched “Ripley,” Netflix’s new adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” and I fretted. I’d be reviewing the miniseries for the Globe, and I was transported by it, and by Andrew Scott’s mesmerizing lead performance. The drama, written and directed by Steven Zaillian, is a stubbornly, brilliantly unromanticized take on the story […]
There is a gap in our observations of the sun: Part of its atmosphere is effectively invisible to our telescopes. However, images taken from Earth during a solar eclipse are filling in that hole, providing an unprecedented look at our star’s hidden layer. But capturing these images requires expertise, special equipment and a lot of […]
VAN HORN, Texas – Ed Dwight, America’s first Black astronaut candidate, will finally fly into space at 90 years old on Blue Origin’s next launch to the edge of space. Dwight is among the six-person crew launching . . .
On May 25, 2020, I was at home in Omaha, Nebraska, participating in a video call with the World Health Organization on Covid-19 when I started seeing videos on social media channels. Three white policemen knelt on one black man. One officer pressed his knee into the black man’s neck. Then his last words, “I […]