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Venus Williams is doing her part to preserve a legacy that’s been pivotal to Black culture.

According to a report by Tennis 365, the world-class athlete and philanthropist have partnered with acclaimed artist Adam…

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On the evening of Thursday March 9, 2023 Jacoria Borders, Tim Eldredge, Sandy Feliciano, David Fields, Kiara Lane, Carl

McCray, David Paull, and Andrew Smith, all members of the Lead Atlanta(LEAD Atlanta - Leadership Atlanta) Class of

2023 presented in front of various stakeholders…

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13 Jumada I, 1444 A.H. 

12/07.22

مَّن ذَا ٱلَّذِى يُقۡرِضُ ٱللَّهَ قَرۡضًا حَسَنً۬ا فَيُضَـٰعِفَهُ ۥ لَهُ ۥۤ أَضۡعَافً۬ا ڪَثِيرَةً۬‌ۚ وَٱللَّهُ يَقۡبِضُ وَيَبۡصُۜطُ وَإِلَيۡهِ تُرۡجَعُونَ (٢٤٥)

Who is it that would loan Allah a goodly loan so He may multiply it for him many times over? And it is Allah who withholds and grants abundance, and to Him…

On Friday, the NAACP and The Archewell Foundation announced the 2023 recipient of The NAACP-Archewell Digital Civil

Rights Award. The annual award, launched in 2022, celebrates a new generation of leaders who are creating transformational change at the intersection of social justice and technology — working to advance civil and human rights. 

This year’s recipient is Nabiha Syed, CEO of The Markup, a company driving award-winning investigative coverage of how…

EMGAGE Honors Muslim African Americans. By Imam Nadim Ali 3/1/23

EMGAGE an organization that mobilizes Muslim American voters, advocates on policy issues, and supports candidates that serves in the best interests of the Muslim American community. EMGAGE hosted a luncheon in Washington, D.C. on 2/28/23 at the Old Ebbitt Grill to highlight and  honor the contributions of Muslim African Americans have made to…

"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history." — Carter G. Woodson

There are many things from childhood that Brett Woodson Bailey doesn't remember. Maybe it has to do with his cancer diagnosis at 4-years-old, living in the hospital for almost two years, undergoing…

More than 50 Harvard affiliates gathered on the steps of Memorial Church for a candlelit vigil on Thursday to mourn the victims of earthquakes in Turkey and Syria earlier this month.

The magnitude 7.8 earthquake, which struck Feb. 6, killed more than 40,000 people and left tens of thousands injured or missing. The initial earthquake was followed by more than 30 aftershocks of at least magnitude 4.5, leaving hundreds of…

Sheryl Lee Ralph made history by performing “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” also known as the “Black national anthem,” on

the field before Super Bowl LVII. The NFL has been incorporating the song into pregame ritual since 2021, when Alicia Keys sang the song in a prerecorded video. Mary Mary performed the song outside SoFi studio last year. Ralph is the first performer to do the song on the field before the game. Perhaps taken with…

We have long known that the industrial rise of rich countries depended on extraction from the global South during the

colonial era. Europe’s industrial revolution relied in large part on cotton and sugar, which were grown on land stolen from Indigenous Americans, with forced labour from enslaved Africans. Extraction from Asia and Africa was used to pay for infrastructure, public buildings, and welfare states in Europe – all the markers…