America's Blackest City

The readers have spoken, and they’ve named Atlanta America’s blackest city!

How do you define the blackness of a city? For Black History Month, we challenged writers to explain why they think…

Black people from Brooklyn are mad proud of where they’re from. Some confuse it for arrogance, but if you grew up…

Newark is so black that during the Great Migration, folks thought it was “New York,” got off the train, and stayed. T…

This year, America will commemorate 400 years when the first slaves were forced onto this land in 1619.

If I had to pick a song that defines my hometown of Detroit, it would be Dej Loaf’s “Try Me” because white supremacy…

OK, I know what you’re thinking. Miami? The blackest city in America? Ha! Not with all that “tiki tiki music” that…

I’m not going to cite the Homestead Grays or the history of the Hill District. Nor will I The Pittsburgh Courier,…

Beale Street can talk. She’s country, loud and a bit ghetto.

There’s a spirit here that takes anything and makes it blacker than it was before. Shit, after you read this, you’re…

Everyone believes in heaven.

Firstly, I want to make this clear: People often (always) confuse East St. Louis and St. Louis—they are not the same…

If we needed a Capital of Blackness, we’d make it Philadelphia.

On the northeast corner of the bridge that joins the southern stretch of Michigan Avenue to the northern portion…

Arguments have been made recently that Washington, D.C., Birmingham, Ala., and Harlem are the blackest cities in…

As the story goes, around 1975, God was having a conversation with a few of his apostles about the blackest city in…

Look at those beautiful faces. Those are the children who lived in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963. Because this picture…

There are very few words synonymous with blackness. “Harlem” fits that bill. Harlem is a place, yes, but it is also…