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HYFIN Announces 3rd Annual Blackity Black Holiday Market, Strengthening Milwaukee’s Black Business Community

November 30th will hold the 3rd Annual Blackity Black Holiday Market in Milwaukee. The market will showcase over 40 Black-owned businesses and will coincide with Small Business Saturday.

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Local artists land on 2025 Grammy nomination list with Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar

2025 could mean Grammys awards for Beyoncé, who released a county music album this year, and rapper Kendrick Lamar.

100 Black Men of Central Ohio, along with attorney Sean Walton Jr., Derrick Holmes and other locals, joined for the counter-rally Sunday afternoon. (Courtesy Sean Walton Jr.)

Columbus Black leaders organize counterprotest after neo-Nazi march in their city

Members of the Ohio chapter of civic group 100 Black Men took to the streets of Columbus after a white supremacist march.

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Malcolm X’s family sues FBI, CIA and NYPD for $100m over his murder

The family of Malcolm X filed a $100m federal lawsuit on Friday that accuses the FBI, the CIA and the New York police department (NYPD) of allowing his murder.

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How This Black 80-something Granny Made the Cover of a High-Fashion Magazine and Has Become an Instagram Fashion Queen

A grandmother in rural Zambia has become a style icon and internet sensation.

“Social media is only important because of the social part, and if you don’t have that, people aren’t going to use” it, says one longtime user. (Macy Sinreich / NBC News; Getty Images)

Black Twitter helped define the internet — so where will the exodus from X lead?

With Elon Musk as the helm, conservative politics and egomania have taken over Twitter, alienating longtime users.

Lorraine O’Grady’s performance in “Nefertiti/Devonia Evangeline” in 1981 explored the complex relationship between the artist and her late sister Devonia through a juxtaposition with the troubled story of the royal sisters Nefertiti and Mutnedjmet of ancient Egypt. Credit: Naima Green for The New York Times

The Biggest Surprise at the Met’s Egypt Show? Live Performance

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is set to open its new exhibition “Flight Into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876 — Now” this weekend. The exhibit has nearly 200 works made largely by African American artists looking to define their cultural history after the violent severance from their African roots through the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

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Director of new SPLC Georgia state office ‘there to listen,’ forge bonds

An office in Atlanta’s westside is part of the SPLC’s new strategy to work with community groups on issues that impact them.

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Howard women’s soccer wins first NEC conference title, qualifies for NCAA tournament

The AFRO highlights Howard University’s women’s soccer team as they make history by participating in the NCAA tournament for the first time

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Aldis Hodge takes on the newest version of detective Alex Cross for TV

Actor Aldis Hodge will play Alex Cross in Amazon Prime’s upcoming series based on James Patterson’s books.

A new book argues that we must remember to rest so we can continue the right (Adobe stock)

Rest as Resistance 

Tricia Hersey calls on history and guides by example in her new book about the importance of rest in a demanding world.

‘They used to have to chuck me out of the studio’: Magdalene Odundo at the Wedgwood factory, Stoke-on-Trent. Photograph: Borja Martin Gomez

‘Beautiful pots enhance humanity’: Magdalene Odundo on her quest to make the perfect pot

Kenya born artist discusses her artistic journey from being raised on apartheid orientated education to her rise to the mainstream for her ceramic pots.

Drawing from an 1896 Sentinel article article titled "Burying the Paupers" (Milwaukee Sentinel Archives)

Dead more than a century, now on research shelves, will Milwaukee’s early poor rest in peace?

Forest Home Cemetery will be the new final resting place for 831 souls who were disinterred from the area’s pauper cemeteries for study.

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This Date in History: Nat Turner Confesses to Leading Slave Rebellion

It took over two months to Nat Turner to confess to leading a rebellion that resulted in over fifty lost lives.

Leaders of the Black Press.

The Black press democratized America

Ahead of another Trump presidency, the historic Black press can serve as a guiding light for practicing journalism in pursuit of a healthy democracy — or, at least, survival and community.

The Justice Department said it is seeking back pay and compensatory damages, in addition to other relief, from the state Senate. (Peter Forest / Getty Images for MoveOn & Emmett Till Legacy Foundation)

Justice Department says Mississippi Senate paid a Black attorney less than her white colleagues for years

A current lawsuit alleges that a staff attorney of the state was paid less than her white peers and didn’t receive increases like them.

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For Black Women, ‘America Has Revealed to Us Her True Self’

The complex relationship between Black women and the political landscape of the United States, particularly in the context of recent events and elections.

A text message received by Monét Miller.

Black people are receiving racist text messages about picking cotton ‘at the nearest plantation’

Anyone who receives a similar text message is advised to report it to the authorities as the investigation continues.

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Do We Owe Black Men an Apology?

While the media lambasted Black men for not supporting Harris, white voters were the deciding factor in Trump’s election.

Senators-elect Angela Alsobrooks and Lisa Blunt Rochester. (Maryland GovPics/United States Government)

Alsobrooks and Blunt Rochester: Black Women Make Senate History

Amid a disastrous loss to President Trump, two Black women have made history as they become representatives for their respective states.

Shomari Figures in Chicago on Aug. 22. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)

Shomari Figures wins bid to represent Alabama district embroiled in Supreme Court case

Figures won an election in a district that was redrawn after a judge ordered the previous map to be redrawn for disenfranchising Black voters.