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Children’s books about Black people’s everyday, joyful lives are sometimes banned – but they help all kids explore what it means to be human

by Wintre Foxworth Johnson, University of Virginia; Brooke Harris Garad, Butler University; Jennifer D. Turner, University of Maryland, and Tiffany D. Meadows, University of...

E. Faye Williams: Blessed to still have acts of kindness

(TriceEdneyWire.com)—When Barack Obama became our Pres­ident, some of us began to believe our nation was on its way to approaching equal rights for all...

How Lindsey Graham’s keen ability to read the moment propelled him to political relevance for 3 decades

by Gibbs Knotts, Coastal Carolina University and Christopher A. Cooper, Western Carolina University Since South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham’s death on June 11, 2026, much...

The forgotten story of abolition in revolutionary France – the first emancipation

by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky On Aug. 21, 1789, just a month after the storming of the Bastille that launched the French Revolution,...

David Marshall: Rep. Jasmine Crockett will be missed

(TriceEdneyWire.com)—As a Black man in America, if I were placed on trial for a major crime such as first-degree murder and knowing I was...

IN MEMORIAM: Johnson changed Black beauty — and Black History

by The Seattle Medium BlackPressUSA Newswire — George E. Johnson, founder of Johnson Products Co., died at age 99. He founded the company in 1954...

This Week In Black History July 15-21, 2026

 • JULY 15 1779—Noted Black spy Pompey Lamb supplies the American rev­olutionary forces with information, which enables them to win the Bat­tle of Stony Point—the...

J. Pharoah Doss: What, to the modern-day slave, is the Fourth of July?

  by J. Pharoah Doss Over the last decade, just before Independence Day, Black intellectuals wrote opinion pieces about Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech, “What to the...

Julianne Malveaux: Cruelty is the point: Haiti, TPS, and the politics of punishment

by Julianne Malveaux (TriceEdneyWire.com)—Haiti is not an abstraction. Haiti is a nation whose pain has too often been treated as policy collateral, a people whose...

E. Faye Williams: Why should we celebrate?

(TriceEdneyWire.com)—Many days leading up to the celebrations in the midst of a costly war that’s killed many, in the midst of a deadly disease...

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