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  • If Trump Succeeds in Defunding Planned Parenthood, Black Women Could Be Affected the Most

    President-elect Donald Trump has galvanized conservatives with his promise to defund Planned Parenthood Federation of America, one of the nation’s largest health care providers and advocates. He has written (pdf) that he is “committed” to defunding the organization “as long as they continue to perform abortions,” and to reallocate its funding to community health centers…

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  • Under Trump, Roe v. Wade May Face Its Greatest Threat Yet

    If you click on the websites of pro-choice advocacy groups such as the Center for Reproductive Rights and NARAL Pro-Choice America, you find a clear call to action for those who support a woman’s right to an abortion, codified in the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade. In the wake of the election…

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  • The Wall and Deportation: For Latinos, Life Under Trump Brings Uncertainty and Fear

    In Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, about a thousand middle and high school students took to the streets to protest President-elect Donald Trump, joining a movement that has swept more than a dozen cities across the nation since his election last week. In Los Angeles, young Latinos took to the streets, chanting, “I will not live…

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  • Too Many People Have Stolen Egypt’s History; Here’s How It’s Getting It Back

    When one asks Tarek Sayed Tawfik about the centuries of theft of Egypt’s historical treasures, he becomes visibly angry. “We are not encouraging anybody to continue stealing Egyptian objects,” declares the general director of the Grand Egyptian Museum, which is set to open at the beginning of 2018. “In spite of it being difficult and…

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  • Civil Rights Groups Ready to Stand Up to Voter Intimidation

    Gabrielle Gray is a little busy these days. The 26-year-old doctoral student in political science at Howard University is coordinating the school’s 2016 Presidential General Election Voter Protection Project. It involves putting together teams of students from HBCUs around the nation to keep voters of color from being intimidated at the polls on Election Day.…

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  • Johnnetta B. Cole Is a Force of Nature

    Johnnetta Betsch Cole, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, turned 80 years old Wednesday, and the stunning educator, humanitarian, anthropologist and mentor to many says it’s wonderful to turn what she calls “40 years old times two.” “I’m so conscious of what I would call a disconnect between the very words ‘80 years…

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  • Visiting Egypt, the Cradle of Civilization, Can Change Your Life

    Karim El Minabawy stands on the Nile Terrace at the Semiramis InterContinental Hotel in Cairo, grinning as he gestures at the rainbow of lights surrounding the iconic river. “See these colors all around? … It is an amazing view by night. Three o’clock in the morning, you see these colors until sunrise,” says El Minabawy,…

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  • You May Choke Up at Some of the Items on Display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture

    A wide-eyed Lance Spencer, 12, stood against the wall, between a stone block once used to auction slaves and a glass-boxed gallery where a worker was adjusting the lights on a shawl that belonged to abolitionist Harriet Tubman. “It’s cool!” the seventh-grader at Eliot-Hine Middle School in Washington, D.C., exclaims. “That’s what I think is…

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  • Calif.’s Recreational-Weed Bill Could Be a Game Changer

    Editor’s note: This article is part of an ongoing series that looks at the growing legal marijuana industry and its effect on the black community. Sue Taylor, 69, is a force of nature. The retired Catholic-school principal and grandmother of three is also one of the first African-American senior citizen owners of a cannabis dispensary. She’s based…

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  • Are Blacks Missing Out on the Medical Benefits of Weed?

    Editor’s note: This article is part of an ongoing series that looks at the growing legal marijuana industry and its effect on the black community. If you search “babies cured with cannabis” on YouTube, you come up with a plethora of emotional videos. There’s California’s Dr. William Courtney from 2013, using X-rays to show what…

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