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By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated March 12, 2024

Today, iHeartPodcasts and

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By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated February 15, 2024

Today Fani Willis was called to the stand in Georgia in the hearing to determine whether or not the Fulton County District Attorney will be disqualified from prosecuting former President Donald Trump. Court will reconvene tomorrow and Willis be on the stand once again, being “cross-examined by the district attorney’s office,” CNN reports.

What’s at stake? If the court disqualifies Willis, that would also extend

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San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images / Contributor / Getty Images By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated February 14, 2024

Next year, California’s 12th congressional district will have a new representative after being represented by Congresswoman Barbara Lee for the past 25 years. Lee is pursuing a seat in the U.S. Senate and has just formally endorsed Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) board member Lateefah Simon’s campaign to succeed her in representing

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Heritage Images / Contributor / Getty Images By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated February 14, 2024

This Valentine’s Day, ESSENCE wants to make sure that you’re also celebrating the birthday of abolitionist icon Frederick Douglass.

“Like many of those born into slavery, Frederick Douglass had no idea of the date of his birth.” But during his lifetime Douglass decided that he would celebrate on February 14. But what made Douglass choose Valentine’s Day?

In 1877,

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Xinhua News Agency / Contributor / Getty Images By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated February 5, 2024

Before there was Love Jones, there was Anthony and Isabella. And their story began more than 400 years ago, with a love that endured and prospered despite the odds.

Once upon a time during the early 1600s, Anthony and Isabella were a young African couple in love. “Anthony and Isabella were Angolan; they came from the Kimbundu-speaking,

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By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated January 15, 2024

Today is the official holiday celebrating civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. More than 50 years after his assassination, King is almost universally revered and counted among the likes of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. But this attitude is a somewhat recent development.

During the 1960s, “Gallup measured the public’s perception of King in a different fashion…using a ‘scalometer’ that asked the

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Nick Hunt / Stringer / Getty Images By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated January 10, 2024

The new Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies course framework will officially be launching this year, in the fall for the 2024-2025 school year.

College Board, the nonprofit testing company that offers AP courses as a way for high schoolers to earn credits for college, released the new curriculum in December. The revisions are a

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By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated January 9, 2024

Activists are committed to fighting to ensure that

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By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated January 9, 2024

The

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