For generations, Black Americans have understood something fundamental about land that the broader culture often chooses to forget property is not merely shelter. Property is leverage. Property is ...

Anyone with WiFi remembers the collective groans that reverberated across Metro Detroit in April 2024, when the much-ballyhooed “Hollywood sign” that wasn’t made its underwhelming debut on eastbound I ...

By Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State. I started my career in Montgomery Alabama. I moved there to dig deep into the unfinished work of the civil rights movement, see fir ...

Collins was born in December 1978 in Los Angeles, just eight minutes before his twin brother, Jarron Collins, according to the Los Angeles Times . The twins grew up in Northridge and played basketball ...

For Lake Michigan Credit Union – better known as LMCU – the opening marked a long-awaited arrival into Michigan’s largest ...

Rep. Justin J. Pearson of Memphis — whose brother, KeShaun Pearson, was arrested by state troopers along with at least one other individual during the protests — also decried the vote on social media ...

The South Carolina Senate voted on Monday (May 11) not to extend its legislative calendar, thereby denying the opportunity to ...

As part of its broader efforts to improve maternal and infant health outcomes, the SOS MATERNITY Network will host a Community Baby Shower on Tuesday, May 19, from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM at the Marygrove ...

What distresses me is that too many people still believe backlash in America is random. It is not random. It is reactionary. Every time Black Americans make visible progress socially, politically, ...

Black artists are gearing up to let the music play at the annual Movement Festival, Memorial Day weekend at Detroit’s Hart Plaza. Detroit birthed techno in the eighties after the imaginative work of ...

But in today’s economy, literacy is also a business issue that directly affects workforce readiness, productivity, innovation ...

The Chicago Defender proudly presents the Men of Excellence Class of 2026, honoring an extraordinary group of leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, advocates, and changemakers who continue to make a ...