Year: 2026

By JEMELE HILL is a staff writer for The Atlantic, where she covers sports, race, politics, and culture. They attract money and attention to the predominantly white universities that showcase them, while HBCUs struggle. What  would happen if […]

TOKYO Tennis star Naomi Osaka has decided to choose Japanese over American nationality with an eye on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, public broadcaster NHK reported Thursday. Osaka, who has a Japanese mother and a Haitian […]

By GREG BRAXTONSTAFF WRITER  OCT. 2, 2019 No matter how high Tyler Perry climbed up the ladder of Hollywood success, his past would not let him go. Armed with a sharp, often raucous sensibility and a […]

By Sara MacNeil, Montgomery Advertiser Montgomery, a city where more than half the population is black and known as the birthplace of the civil rights movement, elected an African American to the highest position in […]

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.); former Fla. gubernatorial candidate and Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum Photo: Scott Eisen (Getty), Joe Skipper (Getty)By Dara Sharif (The Root) Could a Warren-Gillum ticket be in the works? An election 2020 […]

As October is breast cancer awareness month, the James Weldon Johnson YMCA held their 7th Annual Zumba Gala in Pink to remind members and the community that breast cancer is a treatable disease, held inside […]