"You give somebody the eye test, right?" said Rod Brown, a former Page parent. "And I went, 'her?' She's going to lead these ...

The Altadena fire wiped out much of a historic black enclave in this picturesque town in the San Gabriel Valley.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Black ... The poem’s fame is rooted in its powerful call to action. McKay urges his readers to face their oppressors with courage and dignity, even in the face of death.

This poem is included in my poetry full-length debut, The Rent Eats First. The book focuses on my experience as a housing justice lawyer, situating that experience within the privileges and inequities ...

In the years that followed, racial covenants were deemed illegal, which sparked a White flight to the suburbs that enabled Black Americans ... But the loss of electricity hampered their ability ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. A selection from Emily Osborne’s translation of Egill Skallagrímsson’s “Cruel ...

One of his final poems, “Facing the Sea, with Spring Blossom,” might be his most memorable, but my personal favorite will always be “September,” in no small part because it was turned into a song by ...

The study, conducted by James Carr and Michela Zonta, finds that historical and contemporary loss of Black heirs’ property is a significant contributor to the Black-White racial wealth gap, joining ...

For six generations, the 100-year-old white house on East Mariposa ... lives and businesses in historically Black communities like Altadena, the combined loss of generational wealth and personal ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Marchers gather in front of the Colbert County courthouse to demand an investigation into the death of ...

For six generations, the 100-year-old white house on East Mariposa Street – with its teeming flower ... For many African Americans who built their lives and businesses in historically Black ...

Jimmy Carter, America's 39th President, has passed away at the ripe age of 100, just 13 months after the loss of his beloved wife, Rosalynn. In the hours since his death, a beautiful poem he wrote ...