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A third-generation Jersey City firefighter has hit a career milestone over 70 years after his grandfather became the first Black man to join the Jersey City Fire Department. On Saturday, Mayor Steve Fulop celebrated the success of his administration’s diversity recruitment efforts with the promotion of four African American firefighters …

Fabian ‘Occasional Superstar’ Williams’ mural of Stacey Abrams is displayed in the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia.Photo: Raymond Boyd (Getty Images) There has always been some kind of disparity for Black women in this country. We recently saw the U.S. employment rate drop for all workers except Black …

Twelve years ago, Steve Benjamin made history by being elected as the first Black Mayor of the Capital City in Columbia, South Carolina. Benjamin said he was on a mission to ensure everyone felt that they belonged in Columbia. During his tenure in office, Benjamin steered Columbia through a disastrous …

Trymaine LeePhoto: MSNBC Trymaine Lee is a Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning journalist who is a correspondent for MSNBC and host of the podcast, Into America. On the podcast, he covers social justice issues and the role of race, violence, politics and law enforcement in America. This interview covers the …

A 17-year-old was arrested in South Carolina over the weekend, charged with changing the traffic warning on a road-side sign to an offensive message including the n-word. The privately-owned sign was being used to advise drivers about on-going construction. However, on Saturday afternoon the Sumter Police Department began receiving calls …

Photo: J. Kempin (Getty Images) Martin Luther King III responded to the announcement Senator Kyrtsen Sinema will not support a change to the filibuster, reported The Hill. King III respectfully sat her down. “History will remember Senator Sinema unkindly. While Sen. Sinema remains stubborn in her ‘optimism,’ Black and Brown …

On Monday, Google unveiled its latest Doodle commissioned to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day. This year, the company tapped Brooklyn illustrator Olivia Fields, who rendered what she calls a “future-focused” image, inspired by Dr. King’s words. “The quote, ‘The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward …

The U.S. Treasury has made progress addressing economic inequality affecting Black Americans since President Joe Biden took office a year ago, but it still has a long way to go, according to Treasury secretary Janet Yellen. Yellen discussed America’s lingering racial wealth gap during Rev. Al Sharpton and the National …

Photo: Courtesy of subject. My first memory of time spent at The Roll Up CLT shakes out to become clearer like a polaroid capture. Through the haze of late summer on southern porches, I recall a curated kinship, community, and a shared love of Black art in close space. In …

Many aspects of our lives revolve around the internet. Nearly everything we do is tied back to the Information Superhighway. Online shopping platforms like Amazon and Etsy, subscription services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime, and banks all require us to come up with passwords in order to use them. …