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By Bridgette Bartlett Royall ·Updated February 27, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

Greenwood, the legendary business district in Tulsa, Oklahoma has rightfully so become a household name. From the Gurley Hotel to Union Grocery Store, the self-sufficient Black community now known as “Black Wall Street” represents the pinnacle of African American entrepreneurship, determination and innovation.

Unfortunately, it was destroyed by an angry White mob during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

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On December 27, 1917, the 369th Infantry Regiment (originally the 15th New York Colored Infantry Regiment) became the first all-Black U.S. combat unit to be shipped overseas during World War I. The Germans dubbed the unit the “Hell Fighters” for their courage and ferocity. The jazz to Europe.

We thank the Hell Fighters for their fierce bravery, creativity and service. Read about yesterday’s Black History

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By Bridgette Bartlett Royall ·Updated February 3, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

The world knows Jackie Robinson for being a pioneer in the sport of baseball. Without a doubt, he was that, but to limit his accomplishments to merely sports is almost criminal. Robinson was remarkable groundbreaker who accomplished so much more that is rarely celebrated. So, we are giving him and his equally outstanding wife Rachel Robinson their

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While most of the world is still buzzing about last night’s star-studded Grammy Awards, we want to acknowledge the talented songstress who blazed a trail for all the women who took home awards yesterday. Ella Fitzgerald was the first woman to ever win multiple Grammys at the inaugural Grammy Awards in 1958.

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By Bridgette Bartlett Royall ·Updated January 30, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

Nicki Minaj has become exhausting. 

Correction: Nicki Minaj has been exhausting.As Black women, we were

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By Bridgette Bartlett Royall ·Updated January 28, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

There’s power in the pause!

Since what seems like the beginning of time, girls and women of all races have been warned about the change, also known as, menopause, as something to dread or fear. Rarely, if ever, were dialogues around menopause embraced. And her little sister

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