Martin Luther King Jr.: A Drum Major for Justice, Still Marching With Us More than half a century after his assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King… January 16, 202615 views
From the NICU to the National Blood Drive: Health, Hope, and the Stories Connecting Us This week brought two powerful reminders that health isn’t just a personal… January 15, 202627 views
Economic Development: Black-Owned Businesses and Economic Empowerment — With Focus on the Apollo Theater and Black Farmers Across the United States, economic development for Black communities remains both a… January 14, 202629 views
New Releases: Buzz Around BMF and Disney’s Tangled Live-Action Across both television and film, 2025 and 2026 have been packed with… January 13, 202624 views
From Food Desert to Food Sovereignty: Flint Opens Community-Owned Grocery Store In a city long characterized by disinvestment, inequitable access to basic resources,… January 8, 202638 views
Black New Year, Unfinished Business: What 2026 Could Mean for Our Progress New Year’s Day has always hit different in Black America. It’s never… January 1, 202654 views
Still Waiting for Equity: Why the Black Unemployment and Poverty Gap Remains Relevant in 2025 As the United States marks another year of nominal economic expansion, stark… December 28, 202559 views
From “Creep” to Care: How T-Boz and Gilead’s So We PrEP Campaign Is Rewriting HIV Prevention for Black Communities In a bold and culturally resonant move, music icon Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins… December 26, 202570 views
Culture Misty Copeland’s Farewell: A Cultural Milestone in Ballet and Beyond On October 22, 2025, at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater in… 3D North Star Freedom FileDecember 25, 202561 views
Culture When Truth Meets the Courtroom: Megan Thee Stallion and Pras Michel in Headlines In a week of high-stakes courtroom drama and celebrity legal reckonings, Grammy-winning… 3D North Star Freedom FileDecember 23, 202567 views
Society Reclaiming History, Reshaping Education: How New Funding and Curriculum Debates Are Shaping the Narrative of Black History in America In West Palm Beach, a transformative cultural project is gaining momentum that… 3D North Star Freedom FileDecember 22, 202595 views
Society MacKenzie Scott’s $740 Million Gift to HBCUs: A Generational Inflection Point in Black Higher Education In a year marked by escalating debates over who deserves access to… 3D North Star Freedom FileDecember 21, 202569 views
Society Slavery Apologies & History Standards: Why the Battles Over Memory Matter In recent years, the United States has witnessed intense debates over how… 3D North Star Freedom FileDecember 20, 202576 views
Culture Diddy’s legal tug-of-war: an appeal, a denied commutation rumor, and the fight to rewrite a sentence Sean “Diddy” Combs — music mogul, cultural force and now convicted felon… 3D North Star Freedom FileDecember 2, 2025100 views
Society Other news: Coast Guard controversy over “hate” language — and a toxic tap for Black America Two stories landed on the same uneasy day: one about the symbols… 3D North Star Freedom FileNovember 30, 2025118 views
Society Port Chicago: The Explosion America Tried to Forget — and the Black Sailors Who Paid the Ultimate Price By 3D North Star Freedom File On a warm July night in… 3D North Star Freedom FileNovember 29, 2025114 views
Culture Jimmy Cliff Dies at 81: Reggae Legend and The Harder They Come Star Passes On Jamaican reggae icon Jimmy Cliff has died at the age of 81,… 3D North Star Freedom FileNovember 24, 2025118 views
Politics Will Black Men Turn Out for Kamala Harris the Way They Have Before? Kamala Harris has spent the last campaign cycle courting Black voters with… 3D North Star Freedom FileNovember 23, 2025118 views
