Asantehene Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II, the paramount ruler of Ghana’s Ashanti Kingdom, celebrated Akwasidae Festival at Bowie State University on Aug. 30, ...

Nearly two weeks after a derecho knocked out power, thousands of Gary residents were still waiting for electricity. While officials investigated what went wrong, Black churches were already doing what ...

Baltimore ranked second in the Community Justice Action Fund’s 2025 Violence Prevention Index, which assesses cities’ ...

Hundreds of Black journalists meeting in Atlanta recently heard a multitalented panel of experts address the issue of “Separation of Church & Sex: Faith and the Fight Against HIV.” HIV remains a ...

Willie Pearl Mackey King had no idea the scraps scattered across an SCLC office floor would become one of the most important writings in American history. Sixty-three years later, a new foundation is ...

The first day of school in Prince George’s County started off in spectacular fashion on Aug. 26 as County Executive Aisha Braveboy kicked off the morning with a lightshow and marching band on the ...

Parent-teacher conferences can conjure a familiar scene: adults crammed into child-size chairs, listening to teachers run through a list of students’ achievements and struggles. For many families, ...

What began as the unexplained death of a Black teenager has become a national case involving civil rights lawyers, federal prosecutors and viral speculation. Even so, investigators have yet to ...

As the pastor of one the oldest Black churches in Washington, D.C., Rev. William H. Lamar IV understands the historic significance of the ancestors. Each week, he takes to the pulpit of Metropolitan ...

African-American families in the Greater Washington area continue to bear the brunt of surging prices, reductions in services and the ever-widening gap between the insured and uninsured. And with ...

(BLACK PRESS USA) – I grew up in Plaquemine, La., where the older folks could tell you it was going to rain before there was a cloud in the sky. As a little boy, I would hear one of them say, “A storm ...

The Baltimore Ravens hosted a tour unveiling newly renovated spaces at M&T Bank Stadium on Aug. 14. This marked the completion of the stadium’s three-year redevelopment project dubbed, “The Next ...