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With just 15 weeks before Election Day, Democratic U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico is facing perhaps his biggest political challenge: convincing skeptical Black voters that Democrats have learned from years of taking them for granted.
For Talarico, the path to victory in Texas runs through an electorate that has long served as the Democratic Party’s most r...
Prairie View A&M University stood for 150 years, trained generations of Black professionals, and sent graduates across every sector of American life.
Yet outside the HBCU community, its story is rarely told on the same terms as those of other Texas institutions. Dancer and activist Harrison Guy wants to change that, one movement at a time.
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Merlin Lu, the young Asian American University of Illinois-Chicago senior who burned a cross in Chicago’s Grant Park, offered a puzzling defense: “My protest had nothing to do with race. Nothing to do with gender.”
He went on to say that though he knew a burning cross was a charged symbol, he didn’t understand its affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). He claimed...
Before Brooke Lloyd ever stepped onto a starting block, elite track and field was already part of her life.
Her father, Chris Lloyd, competed in the 2008 Olympics, and her mother, Tremedia Lloyd, won an NCAA Division I 200-meter championship at Texas Southern University. Excellence wasn’t something Brooke admired from afar; it was the standard she grew up with.
Written by Aaliyah Amos, Word In Black Special Correspondent
On many college campuses, Black students navigate racial stress without spaces designed to help them heal from it. So when those spaces do exist, Black students say they can be transformative.
Black students make up