Black boy participating in a robotics workshop. Bryan Johnson, the Founder of Black Boys Code, spent over 20 years working in corporate Canada, where he often found himself as “the only Black pe ...

When starting a public charter school in Washington, D.C., for Black and Latino boys, Statesmen College Preparatory Academy’s founder and CEO, Shawn Hardnett, wanted his teachers to be role models for ...

The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 48.3 million in 2023. That’s up a third (33%) since 2000, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data.

January 12, 2025 • This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a tribute to the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the 96th anniversary of his birth ...

At the notorious state-run Nickel Academy, white boys live in one set of conditions, while the Black boys endure another. The segregation is nothing new. But the degree of the brutality ...

Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with supermassive black holes, surrounded by ... X-Ray Flashes from a Nearby Supermassive Black Hole ...

A missing 7-year-old boy survived five days alone in an African game park, alongside elephants and lions, in what Zimbabwean politicians are calling "a true miracle." Tinotenda Pudu spent nearly a ...

This is a place where only the white boys get to play football, while the black boys are whipped savagely (to the brink of death or beyond) as a matter of routine. Mesmerising, unfamiliar ...

A story that explores the tensions between Black wealth and heritage, The Piano Lesson centers on a prized family heirloom that’s tearing two siblings apart. Boy Willie (Washington) wants to ...

Dozier School for Boys, a reform institution in the Florida Panhandle that operated from 1900 to 2011. By far the majority of the bodies were of young Black men; former “students” have ...

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