
Frederick Douglass’s journey from enslaved reader to constitutional scholar reshaped America, showing the power of literacy and activism in achieving liberty and equality. #FrederickDouglass #ConstitutionWeek #AmericanHistory...

WHRO-TV is airing Becoming Thurgood: America’s Social Architect, a powerful new documentary featuring Thurgood Marshall’s own words and chronicling his fight for justice, equality, and civil...

NJGPOD, the official podcast of the New Journal and Guide, amplifies Black voices while offering businesses powerful advertising opportunities through audio, video, sponsorships, and digital ads...

Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch III defends the institution’s independence after President Trump ordered oversight of museum programming, including African-American history exhibits. Scholars and curators warn that...

Joseph McNeil, one of the original four North Carolina A&T students who sparked the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins at a Woolworth’s lunch counter, has died at 83....

In Mounted: On Horses, Blackness, and Liberation, Bitter Kalli reclaims overlooked history, showing how horses shaped Black survival, culture, and resistance while blending personal experience with...

Chesapeake has renamed Old Courtyard Park in honor of Judge Eileen A. Olds, the city’s first African-American woman judge and a nationally recognized legal leader who...

More Black Americans are living past 100, with many crediting their faith, resilience, and healthy habits for their longevity. From Kathleen Owens Simmons in Norfolk to...

Virginia State University professor and author Dr. Latorial Faison has been nominated for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for her book Nursery Rhymes in Black, a powerful...

Bells rang across the world on August 23 in solidarity with Fort Monroe’s Annual African Landing Day Commemoration, honoring the first enslaved Africans who arrived at...