Race

Few Black men become school psychologists. Here's why that matters

3:21pm July 29, 2022

by Pooja Salhotra

Psychologists play a critical role in K-12 schools, but there's a clear mismatch between the demographics of school psychologists and the student populations they serve.

Franklin Armstrong made his debut in the Peanuts in 1968.

A project named for 'Peanuts' character Franklin aims to boost Black animators

5:13am July 28, 2022

by Mandalit del Barco

The Armstrong Project provides two $100,000 endowments to Howard University and Hampton University.

Maps of ballot drop box locations in four Georgia counties (Cobb, Fulton, Dekalb, Gwinnett) in 2020 and 2022. The number of drop boxes fell from 107 in 2020 to 25 in 2022.

A new Georgia voting law reduced ballot drop box access in places that used them most

5:09pm July 27, 2022

Georgia lawmakers changed voting laws after 2020, including eliminating drop boxes in certain counties, making it harder for many voters in cities and suburbs, often people of color, to access them.

Former Minneapolis Police Officer Tou Thao (left) was sentenced to 3 1/2 years and J. Alexander Kueng got three years Wednesday for violating George Floyd's civil rights.

National

Two former police officers are sentenced for violating George Floyd's civil rights

1:50pm July 27, 2022

by The Associated Press

J. Alexander Kueng was sentenced to three years and Tou Thao got 3 1/2 years — penalties that a judge said reflected their level of culpability in a case that sparked worldwide protests.

The dictionary aims to be the first to complete the task at this magnitude.

A new dictionary will document the lexicon of African American English

6:42am July 27, 2022

by Jeevika Verma

A new research collaboration between Harvard University and Oxford University Press aims to compile the first fully-formed dictionary of African American English.

Queue Listen Now

Patience (Talise Trevigne, right) comforts Castor (Reginald Smith Jr.) after his breakdown over the crush of dept and his search for a solution as other family members look on.

'Castor and Patience' opera explores systematic barriers to Black land ownership

4:01pm July 26, 2022

by Elizabeth Kramer

Cousins struggle with debts and may have to sell property long held by their family in a work created by former poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith and composer Gregory Spears.

A Washington state man has been arrested after allegedly calling a Buffalo, N.Y., grocery store and threatening to kill the Black people inside. This nearby Tops Grocery store in Buffalo was the scene of a deadly mass shooting in May.

National

A man is charged with threatening to shoot Black shoppers at a Buffalo grocery store

6:01am July 26, 2022

by Jonathan Franklin

The federal criminal complaint details other threatening calls allegedly made by the suspect over the past year to businesses in California, Maryland, Connecticut and Washington state, officials say.

Pope Francis delivers remarks as he meets Indigenous communities — including First Nations, Metis and Inuit — at Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Catholic Church in Maskwacis, near Edmonton, Canada, on Monday.

The pope's apology in Canada was historic, but for some Indigenous people, not enough

7:10pm July 25, 2022

by Scott Neuman

Francis issued the apology years after a Canadian-government-funded report said children had been physically and sexually abused at the mostly Catholic-run schools in the country.

National

Freedom fighter Denmark Vesey is being honored in the same city where he was executed

5:10pm July 25, 2022

by Victoria Hansen

Denmark Vesey was a freeman who organized a slave rebellion that was thwarted when news of it was leaked. He ultimately was hanged. A bicentennial celebration was held earlier in July for Vesey.

Sports

Black player Bud Fowler will be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame

8:53am July 24, 2022

by Vaughn Golden

Among the inductees during today's National Baseball Hall of Fame is a little-known player named Bud Fowler. His inclusion represents an effort to highlight Black players predating Jackie Robinson.