Melissa Noel
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More Than Half Of The Black Women In America Ages 15 To 49 Live In States With Little To No Abortion Access
More than half of the Black women living in America of reproductive age live in states without access to abortions. That’s almost 7 million women,...
Meet The Former Prosecutor Now Working To Bring People Home From Prison
The founder and executive director of For The People, a national nonprofit that reviews past sentences and brings people back from prison, Hillary Blout has...
The Fatal Shooting Of Black U.S. Airman By Florida Deputy Renews Debate About Race And Police Killings
Hundreds lined up outside the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in the Atlanta suburb of Stonecrest last Friday to say their final goodbye to Roger...
Black Wall Street Could Become A National Monument
More than a century after the nation’s deadliest race massacre, the Senate is considering a bipartisan bill to grant national monument status to Greenwood, Oklahoma,...
From Walmart Employee To Olympic Hopeful: Here’s How Dylan Beard Is Overcoming Hurdles
February 11 is a date that Dylan Beard will probably never forget. At this year’s Millrose Games in New York City, Beard won big in...
Special Send-Off: Trailblazing Black Pilot Soars Into Retirement After 34 Years At United Airlines
On Monday evening, when a United Airlines 787 Dreamliner takes off from Newark Liberty International Airport for Lisbon, Portugal, with Captain Theresa Claiborne at the...
Rep.Jasmine Crockett Launches ‘Clapback Collection’ Merchandise After Heated Exchange At Congressional Hearing
Rep. Jasmine Crockett has announced the launch of a line of “Clapback Collection” merchandise following a heated exchange she had with Rep.Marjorie Taylor Greene during a...
5 Powerful Malcolm X Quotes That Could Have Been Spoken Today
Malcolm X, the fearless truth-teller, would have turned 99 today! He’s well-known for being an outspoken firebrand against white supremacy, but his international analysis, political...
Brown v. Board Of Education Turns 70—Here’s What’s Changed & What Hasn’t
Seventy years ago, on May 17, 1954, in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that segregated schools were...
Two Years After A Racist Mass Shooting In Buffalo, A Memorial Honoring The Victims Is In The Works
It’s been two years since the racist mass shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, NY, which claimed the lives of 10 Black people. This week, New York Governor Kathy Hochul, Buffalo...