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By Madeline Halpert BBC News, New York 14 March 2024, 20:14 GMT Updated 1 minute ago To play this content, please enable JavaScript, or try a different browser Video caption, Watch: US Vice-President Kamala Harris explains her historic tour of an abortion clinic Kamala Harris has visited a Minnesota abortion clinic, the first time a […]

BALTIMORE — African-American cemeteries across Maryland are facing threats due to climate change.  Broken headstones and cracked tombs are common sights in many African-American graveyards, as climate change exacerbates natural wear with increased flooding and erosion.  Brewer Hill Cemetery, Annapolis’s oldest African-American cemetery, is home to over 7,000 former slaves and three notable Black figures.  […]

TheGrio’s “Running Black” election series profiles Black candidates running for office in the 2024 elections. If successful, each candidate profiled could make history in their state. Hear from them in their own words about what’s at stake in their races, for the country, and for Black and brown communities on the political margin. After serving four terms in […]

NEW DELHI: Former President Donald Trump asserted on Friday that his four criminal indictments have increased his support among Black Americans, as they perceive him as a victim of discrimination. Drawing parallels to the historic legacy of anti-Black prejudice in the US legal system, Trump contends that his legal troubles are a result of political […]

Edward J. Tarver, the Augusta attorney who became the first Black U.S. attorney for the federal Southern District of Georgia, has died.  Tarver, 64, also represented the Augusta area’s District 22 in the Georgia Senate from 2005 to 2009, helping round out a full life of public service. His death was announced Friday after developing complications […]

By Jessica Pumphrey National (TN Tribune)-National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund is awarding $4 million in its second round of Preserving Black Churches grants to 31 historic Black churches across the U.S. Notably, two of the churches selected for grants are located in Tennessee. Henderson Chapel AME Zion Church in […]

UNESCO’s Routes of Enslaved Peoples Project committee held is first meeting is North America last week at the Hotel Atlantic in Halifax. Photo: Matthew Byard A scientific committee with the United Nations heard a presentation about why Africville should be designated as an UNESCO international site of historic memory. The committee with The Routes of […]

Conservationists in New York are ramping up research and preservation efforts of a historic Black community that had all but disappeared, illuminating what some experts say is an “antidote” to ongoing rightwing efforts to keep African American studies out of classrooms. Weeksville, New York, located in present-day Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant, had been a center […]

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