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Black Communities Could Pay for FEMA Chaos
Hunger By Policy: SNAP Cuts Hit Hardest in Black America
Storytelling through the Ages
Those words from the great futurist Octavia E. Butler was our foundational call to arms. We were spurred by the National Endowment for the Arts “Big Read” (celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence).
Bank On This
We took a moment to spotlight the women who changed the game when it comes to money, power, and ownership.
Filed and Forgotten: The Hidden Tax on Black Women
Every year, Tax Day arrives with a familiar rhythm. Receipts are gathered. Returns are filed. Refunds are calculated and, for some, anticipated with relief. It is a moment that invites people to measure what they owe and what they might get back.
Writing Our Story; Righting Our History
Authors, Activists, Artists Speak! History is not only what we inherit. It is what we choose to remember, to record, and to pass forward. For Black women, storytelling has always been an act of preservation and resistance—a way of holding onto truth when the official record refused to.
Word In Black’s ‘On Borrowed Time’ Wins NAACP Image Award
On the same night Michelle Obama and Kendrick Lamar were celebrated at the 2026 NAACP Image Awards, a reporter for Word In Black quietly made history of her own. Anissa Durham won the inaugural Outstanding Literary Work – Journalism award for “On Borrowed Time."
Beauty Empire Builder, Black Bank Founder: Remembering Rose Morgan
Who today has ever heard of Rose Meta Morgan? If, thanks to groundbreaking work by Stanley Nelson and A’Lelia Bundles, many are aware of the triumphant, if brief, lives of Madam Walker and her daughter, no biographer has come forward for their successor in the sphere of Black beauty.
Stratton wins Illinois primary, giving Dems another Black female senator
