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Carter Godwin Woodson, credited as “The Father of Black History Month,” was born in New Canton, Virginia, on Dec. 19, 1875. The son of freed slaves, Woodson would go on to become one of the first African-Americans to receive a doctorate from Harvard University and one of the first Blacks …

Darrion Cockrell, who had a rough childhood and became a gang member before he turned 10-years old, turned his life around and has now been named as Missouri’s 2020 Teacher of the Year. As a child, Cockrell said he took education for granted and joined a gang when he thought …

Photo: Doug Mills-Pool (Getty Images) Trump and his criminal cronies are escalating their ideas of how to deny the results of November’s election. With 31 days to go until President-elect Biden’s inauguration, the outgoing president is now reportedly considering instituting martial law to keep himself in power. Trump made the …

Eve said goodbye to The Talk in what she described as a bittersweet moment. On Friday’s (December 18) episode of the CBS daytime program, the co-host and rapper, 42, said she was very thankful for the time she spent on the show over the past four years. RELATED: Eve Says She …

Three years ago, three black fathers, Marquis Lupton, William Way Jr., and Brandon Way Sr. decided to do something about the lack of diversity in their regional news stations. Building off of Marquis’ decade long journalism career, the three fathers decided to launch The Cultured Professional, best known as the TCP …

Photo: AP This year was marked by a movement towards racial reckoning in America, including a recognition of the historic injustices done towards Black people in this country via policing and also from a whole host of other institutions. Now another entity has stepped forward to acknowledge its role in …

Photographs by Rashod Taylor Rashod Taylor, a fine-art photographer based in Bloomington, Illinois, has been documenting Black American life for years. His ongoing analog photo series Little Black Boy is an intimate and weighty record of his son’s childhood. It began in 2015, when his son was born. This year, …

La’Ron Singletary, the former Rochester police chief who was terminated in September, is making some shocking claims in legal documents that were released to the public earlier this week. According to NBC News, Singletary said Rochester mayor Lovely Warren urged him to omit facts and give false information to back …