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By Melissa Noel ·Updated February 28, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that Home Depot violated the law by firing an employee who refused to remove the letters “BLM,” the acronym for Black Lives Matter, from his work uniform.
The NLRB ruled in their decision that employees wearing the letters “BLM” on their attire was a “protected concerted activity” to protest the racial injustice that took place at the store from
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Afro Newspaper/Gado / Contributor / Getty Images By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated February 28, 2024
In San Antonio, TX at the Veterans Cemetery at Fort Sam Houston, there is a row of headstones for soldiers missing the name, rank, date of birth, and the wars in which they fought.
Who do these graves belong to? “Members of the 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, an all-Black unit known as the Buffalo Soldiers” who were
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Lamara Glenn. PHOTO: BRANDY CRENSHAW/GOFUNDME By Melissa Noel ·Updated February 27, 2024
Lamara Glenn, an 11-year-old girl who was injured in a drive-by shooting last week in Detroit, has died.
“Now, I have nothing. They took my only kid, my only baby. I don’t have nothing,” Lamara’s mother, Brandy Crenshaw told Fox 2 Detroit.
As Lamara slept on her aunt’s couch on Feb. 20, about 23 bullets were fired into the home, Assistant Chief of
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By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated February 27, 2024
North Carolina might be abolishing the death penalty, and it’s all because of a Black man.
This week, a North Carolina trial court in Johnston County “will hear death row prisoner Hasson Bacote’s claims that racial discrimination in jury selection played a role in his capital sentencing.”
Bacote’s argument: during his 2009 trial, the prosecution team “prevented multiple qualified Black jurors from serving on his jury.”
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By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated February 27, 2024
In February 2022, a video of the police singling out a Black teen who was involved in a fight at a New Jersey mall went viral. Two years later, Z’Kye Husain’s family has reached a settlement with Bridgewater Township.
The video footage showed police officers pushing then 14-year-old Husain down to the ground, while the other non-Black teen, was permitted to be seated in a
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By Angela Ferrell-Zabala ·Updated February 26, 2024
In every election cycle, a familiar question emerges: how do we energize Black and brown voters? And while the question can often be a reductive one, it’s a critical mission. Black women and other women of color will be an influential force next November— as they have been for every recent presidential election. More than two-thirds of Black women turned out to vote in 2020 — the
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By Melissa Noel ·Updated February 26, 2024
In the run-up to the 2024 presidential election, ESSENCE Contributing News and Politics Editor Melissa Noel sat down with two of our inaugural Black Futures Now honorees to discuss key voter issues impacting Black and brown communities and ways to take action.
Angela Ferrell-Zabala is a lifelong organizer and the first-ever Executive Director of Moms Demand Action, a grassroots movement of Americans fighting for public safety
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By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated February 26, 2024
On Saturday, Howard University made history as the first-ever HBCU with a figure skating team to compete in an inter-collegiate competition. In Newark, “[t]he Howard University Ice Skating Organization compete[d] in US Figure Skating’s Southeast divisional competition at the University of Delaware,” which was held on Feb. 24 through 25.
And it’s certainly been a long road. In fact, someone once told Howard University Coach
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By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated February 23, 2024
This Black History Month, three of our inaugural Black Futures Now honorees sat down with ESSENCE for a panel to discuss voter issues amid another presidential election year.
Maisie Brown has been organizing efforts to deliver drinking water in response to the ongoing water crisis in Jackson, Miss. and was named College Woman of the Year by Glamour Magazine. Alphonso David is a nationally recognized