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Getty Images is awarding four historically Black colleges and universities — Claflin University, Jackson State, North Carolina Central University and Prairie View A&M University — a $500,000 grant to digitize their archival photographic libraries.  The Historically Black Colleges & Universities Collection will include the digitization of up to 200,000 archival …

Editor’s note: the following article includes discussions of mental health and suicidal ideation. The death of Ian Alexander, Jr., only child of award-winning actress and director Regina King, due to an apparent suicide has reignited necessary conversations regarding the state of mental health in Black America. More specifically, it dispelled …

“It’s about seeing things differently,” said musician-entrepreneur Pharrell Williams of his latest collaboration, speaking with Women’s Wear Daily as he attended the Kenzo Fall 2022 presentation in Paris. The entertainer and erstwhile style icon clearly meant that literally, accessorizing his otherwise casual ensemble with a pair of almond-shaped, diamond-and-emerald-encrusted micro …

Welcome to Catch (20)22, a series exploring how we all can maximize our new year while being sensitive to the current moment and gracious to ourselves. There are some who never skipped a beat with their workout regimens during the pandemic. When the gyms closed, they built makeshift gyms in …

Experts are cautioning Black households from filing their own taxes in 2022. They predict 2021 filings will yield historic tax returns, but worry self-filing software miss tax credits and deductions incurred during the pandemic or programs newly established by the federal government.  Tax form and mobile phone with e-filing apps. …

Billionaire MacKenzie Scott has wasted no time in sharing her fortune since divorcing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in 2019. Upworthy.com reports that Scott, 51, in under two years donated more than four times her ex-husband’s total lifetime donations, and on the receiving end of the funds were about 780 charitable …

Count 30-year-old Ethan Miller among that subset of Americans who are actually eager to file their taxes once income tax filing season opens on Monday. The financial planner who lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, is looking forward to claiming the new deductions that will come from buying a home. He also wants …

The first time the Twisted Plants food trailer made its appearance on the streets of Milwaukee, the trailer disconnected from the hitch. The second, the grill tipped over. That was in 2019, and what began as a food trailer specializing in plant-based comfort food operating on the weekends has become …

According to the Federal Reserve, as of 2016, the average Black family in the United States had a total wealth of $17,600. That’s one-tenth of the wealth the average white American family had—$171,000.  Studio Romantic/AdobeStock Generational wealth has been the buzzword of Black America as economics is discussed among friends, …

A Virginia family believed to be descended from the first enslaved Africans to come to North America recently traveled to Angola, the African nation from which their ancestors hailed.  Vincent Tucker and his sister, Wanda, founded The William Tucker 1624 Society, an organization that researches the life of William Tucker, …