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Blank Spaces unveils its 100th mural in Amarillo’s North Heights on Juneteenth, celebrating Black family, education, and love ...
As a mother, physician and health equity advocate, I have seen how our health care system affects Black children.
The YMI, Asheville's historic Black cultural center, hosts an exhibition by artist Jenny Pickens in its newly renovated ...
She plays elitist matriarchs on HBO’s ‘The Gilded Age’ and Hulu’s ‘Nine Perfect Strangers,’ but real-life Baranski is a ...
This Juneteenth, I’m thinking about Black mothers being keepers of our narratives. In NC, our ability to share our stories ...
A growing number of Black fathers with autistic children are looking to be more visible in the national autism conversation ...
The artist Howardena Pindell in her Bronx studio. Aundre Larrow “All the whiteness was getting on my nerves.” By Nicole ...
Braiding traditions across the African diaspora both predate and defy the colonial confines set forth to erase and subjugate ...
In Caroline Walker’s 2022 painting “Bottles and Pumps”, various breastfeeding paraphernalia lies drying on a white tray. “That’s been an interesting one, in terms of how people have ...
The third child was stillborn at Plymouth; the mother died in childbirth ... Infant mortality among African and African-American enslaved people in the 18th century ranged from 28-50 percent ...
As Black Maternal Health Week continues, we're learning more about the health disparities linked to Black mothers and pregnancy ... the hospital without their children, and they will be, that ...
Her efforts included doing extensive genealogical research and trying varied outreach methods, even cold calling the quiltmakers' relatives.