May 12, 20203 minCalifornia NewsCalifornia Black newspapers win hundreds of thousands in Facebook grantsSeveral Black-owned newspapers in California have received grants to help them weather the economic downturn the COVID-19 pandemic has ...
May 12, 20205 minCOVID-19Black barbers, beauty professionals push Gov. Newsom to reopen their shopsTwo weeks ago, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp drew sharp criticisms from African Americans across the country.
May 11, 20205 minCalifornia NewsCOVID Crisis: The Black press is doing what it does - on budgets spread thin In 1827, before slavery ended, prominent freed African Americans in the North gathered in the New York City home of Boston Crummell ...
May 4, 20203 minCalifornia NewsArtistic likeness of Frederick Douglass adds ancestral wit to COVID-19 awareness The Frederick Douglass Family Initiative (FDFI), an organization the social reformer and writer’s descendants founded to keep his ...