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Activists and people nationwide are supporting a 5-year-old Black child after a white woman launched a racist verbal assault on the victim at a public park. (Courtesy photo)

Black Experience

‘Love Wins’: Community Rallies for 5-Year-Old Targeted by Hate

by Stacy M. Brown May 6, 2025May 6, 2025

Alisa P. Byers hails the collaborative launch of Blackfolkways.com as essential to the legacy of Black storytelling, and says the discovery of health patterns is critical to disease research woven within the oral histories. (Dr. Patrise Holden/The Washington Informer)

Blackfolkways.com Launch Celebrates Legacy of Black Storytelling

by Dr. Patrise Holden April 30, 2025May 7, 2025

The Trump is cutting off funding to Louisiana's Whitney Plantation, the only plantation museum in the country solely dedicated to telling the story of slavery and honoring the lives of enslaved people. (Elsa Hahne via whitneyplantation.org)

More Federal Grants Yanked from Black History Sites

by Stacy M. Brown April 23, 2025April 23, 2025

**FILE** A Target store in Northern Virginia (Wikimedia Commons)

Target Boycott Founders Fire Back: ‘No Side Deals, No Silence’

by Stacy M. Brown April 22, 2025April 22, 2025

**FILE** Courtesy of African American Mayors Association

African American Mayors Set to Convene in Nation’s Capital for Landmark Conference

by Stacy M. Brown April 15, 2025April 15, 2025

crop anonymous black mother holding hand of baby lying on bed

Decades of Data Show Deadly Gap for Black Children

by Stacy M. Brown April 10, 2025April 10, 2025

woman discussing with her colleagues

Tariffs Are Crushing Black Women, Advocate Warns

by Stacy M. Brown April 9, 2025April 17, 2025

Harriet Tubman

Black Experience

Whitewashing in Real Time, From Harriet Tubman to Target Stores

by Stacy M. Brown April 7, 2025April 8, 2025

Kevin Young, the director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, is currently on personal leave and not leading the museum. (Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution/Leah L. Jones)

Director on Leave as Trump Order Targets African American History Museum and Cultural Institutions

by Stacy M. Brown April 3, 2025April 3, 2025

**FILE** Despite President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting “anti-American ideaology” in cultural institutions, Lonnie G. Bunch III, the first African American to lead the Smithsonian Institution, is laying a path forward for staff. (Courtesy photo)

Black History Under Fire: Trump’s Executive Order Puts Smithsonian’s Future at Risk

by Stacy M. Brown April 1, 2025April 1, 2025