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Baltimore Needs Modern Transit, but a New Project Rehashes Historical Trauma

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Published: November 12, 2024 14:00

At a Sept. 10 Baltimore City Council meeting, longtime Reservoir Hill neighborhood resident Angel St. Jean took the podium to tell the story of her community over the past decade. “Step by step, chip by chip, our voice has been taken away,” she said.  For…

Your Permanent Record Really Stays With You Unless ‘Clean Slate’ Legislation Passes

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Published: November 11, 2024 19:00

The 11th day of April means more to Elvina Smith than her daughters will ever know.  For 17 years, a shoplifting conviction that led to six days in a Wayne County, Michigan, jail and a year of probation impacted every aspect of Smith’s otherwise…

Strategies for Black Americans to Nurture Mental Health After the Election

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Published: November 8, 2024 16:08

As Black, immigrant, pregnant, and low-income people brace for the possible worst outcomes of a second Trump administration, many, maybe even you, are grappling with a flood of emotions – fear, anger, sadness, and a deep sense of grief. With the news cycle…

What Trump’s Second Term Could Look Like for Black Americans

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Published: November 6, 2024 19:01

The dread many Black Americans feel about Donald Trump’s triumph in the 2024 presidential election isn’t misplaced: He organized his reelection campaign against Vice President Kamala Harris around revenge  — around how he and his allies can inflict the…

Trump Wins. What Might 2025 Look Like for Black People?

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Published: November 6, 2024 13:32

For the overwhelming majority of Black voters, a political nightmare is becoming a reality: Donald Trump secured enough Electoral College votes to win the 2024 presidential election, according to the Associated Press. With a win in Wisconsin, Trump cleared…

Lisa Blunt Rochester Will Become the 4th Black Woman to Serve in the U.S. Senate

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Published: November 6, 2024 02:15

As voters awaited the results of the presidential election, the outcomes of a handful of U.S. House and Senate races have already started to reshape Congress in ways that could have huge ramifications for Black Americans.  Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester has…

5 Black Presidential Candidates Who Paved the Way for Kamala Harris

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Published: November 5, 2024 14:00

In 1848, Frederick Douglass was the very first Black candidate to receive a nominating bid for the American presidency. He received one vote. Over the next 100 years, Black presidential hopefuls — particularly those with connections to the two major…

Vibe Check: What Every Black Voter Should Know for Election Day

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Published: November 5, 2024 12:00

Election Day is here. For some voters, it’s already a nightmare. Shantae Martin is a lifelong Virginian who cast her first ballot for Barack Obama. But the 37-year-old recently found out through a notice in the mail that her voter registration had been…

Here’s What Black Swing-State Voters Care About This Election

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Published: November 5, 2024 10:00

As Americans go to the polls today, much of the nation’s attention will turn to the math of this historic election. How many votes have been cast — early or on Election Day — and of course, whether either of the major party’s candidates have amassed enough…

How the Electoral College’s Racist Roots Manifest Today

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Published: November 4, 2024 20:38

Alexsis Rodgers will never forget a solemn experience eight years ago as she witnessed Virginia’s electors cast their votes for Hillary Clinton despite a devastating loss. Donald Trump lost the popular vote back then, but still garnered more electoral…

‘It’s Been a Long Time Coming’: Kamala Harris Wants to Be the First HBCU President

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Published: November 4, 2024 13:30

Originally published by The 19th Vice President Kamala Harris not only grew up in San Francisco’s East Bay Area with the divorced mother who raised her but with various play-aunts and uncles too. These fictive kin included her Uncle Sherman, who taught her…

‘A Place For Us’: Restoring the Shady Rest Golf and Country Club

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Published: November 1, 2024 16:00

When Tom Donatelli was a kid in the 1960s, the golf and country club less than a mile away from his home in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, was known as Scotch Hills Country Club.  Donatelli, now 68, can recall a time when he’d go golfing and sledding with…

Black Crossword: November 1, 2024

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Published: November 1, 2024 14:00

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At a North Carolina HBCU, Black Students Get Out the Vote

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Published: October 31, 2024 17:00

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Standing in a manicured field near the edge of Johnson C. Smith University — an HBCU in Charlotte where his fraternity, Alpha Kappa Alpha, and others display some of the symbols associated with their organizations – Kevin Napier explained…

Capital B Makes Two New Hires on its Audience Team

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Published: October 31, 2024 16:00

Capital B is excited to announce two new additions to our growing team. Mark S. Luckie has joined as Director of Audience and Innovation, and Kuwilileni Hauwanga will serve as Deputy Director of Audience and Innovation. Luckie joins us from the NAACP Legal…

The FBI Stops Dozens of Domestic Attacks Each Year. Under Trump, That Could Change.

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Published: October 31, 2024 10:00

This story was reported in partnership with The Trace. It was the sort of stomach-churning conspiracy you’d expect to find in a dystopian neo-Nazi novel. A white Arizona man was indicted in June on firearms charges for allegedly plotting to shoot people in…

Harris and Trump Want Young Black Votes. Here’s What HBCU Students Want in a President.

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Published: October 31, 2024 09:07

Originally published by Open Campus. In a few days, voters will decide who becomes the nation’s next president. There’s been much speculation about whether Vice President Kamala Harris’ identity as a Howard University alumna will result in support at the…

Toxic Air and a Maternal Mortality Crisis in America’s Steel Town

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Published: October 30, 2024 18:15

This series was produced as part of the Pulitzer Center’s StoryReach U.S. Fellowship.  Kimmie Gordon sat in her car, watching the sky darken as she waited for her 15-year-old son, Kaleb, to finish football practice. It is one of five sports her teenager…

These States May Have Their First Black Elected Officials on Capitol Hill

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Published: October 30, 2024 15:11

For Shomari Figures, it’s virtually impossible to separate this political moment from the long, winding arc of civil rights history. The Democrat and former White House staffer is facing off against his Republican opponent, Caroleene Dobson, to represent…