‘I ain’t goin nowhere’: Gullah Geechee people fight off developers with a historic referendum theguardian.com/news/2026/jan/… | The Guardian

Teaching Black Women’s Self-Care during Jim Crow Maryrose Reeves Allen founded a wellness program at Howard University in 1925 that emphasized the physical, mental, and spiritual health of Black women. daily.jstor.org/teaching-black… | JSTOR Daily

A judge ruled that groups representing residents of Louisiana’s Cancer Alley can proceed with their landmark lawsuit seeking a pause on toxic industrial plants in two majority‑Black districts capitalbnews.org/cancer-alley-r…

Btw the Shirley Chisholm Recreation Center is now open in Flatbush! - Indoor pool and track - Teaching kitchen - Indoor basketball court - Strength training room, cardio room, cycling - Teen room & tutoring room Free for everyone under the age of 24!! tiktok.com/t/ZThXAgmek/

New Yorkers shouldn’t need a personal trainer to cancel a gym membership.

Today with Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani, we’re putting hundreds of gyms across the city on notice: deceptive advertising and hard-to-cancel memberships are illegal in NYC.

In the 1800s, a slave owner purchased over a dozen people in Georgia and set the foundation for his family’s generational wealth Generations later, a railroad company owned by one of his descendants is using eminent domain to seize land of Black farmers capitalbnews.org/georgia-railro…

here’s the link to buy. they’ve got around 700 boxes to reach their goal. digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/troop262…

Fantastic doc about this private equity legend and LBO pioneer

THE PARALYMPIC FLAME HAS BEEN LIT 🔥 The spirit of the Games will now journey from Stoke Mandeville, the birth place of the Paralympic Movement, to Italy to begin the Paralympic torch relay and ignite the beginning of the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games. Allianz

A judge ruled that Gullah Geechee residents on St. Helena Island, SC, must be granted access to their cemetery after being blocked from it. However, they must give property owners — who put up the gates blocking the entrance — written notice first. capitalbnews.org/gullah-geechee…

NYC Council pushes to ban stores from collecting biometric data gothamist.com/news/nyc-counc…

‘Excellence’: Smithsonian exhibit celebrates HBCUs amid attacks on Black history The Smithsonian’s African American history museum has partnered with HBCUs to display archival materials theguardian.com/culture/2026/m…

Two hundred and fifty-six years after the night known as the Boston Massacre, the city of Boston honored Crispus Attucks, a formerly enslaved Black and Indigenous sailor who was the first person killed in the American Revolution. trib.al/8kNgbgE

With Russian, Ukrainian, and Iranian airspace closed, there's just a tiny needle eye left for international flights from Europe to Asia. Some airlines are profiting from the current situation more than others. Source: zeit.de/wirtschaft/202…

For Harriet Tubman Day, we'd like to share this story from 2017, when a remarkable photo album containing a previously unknown photograph of Harriet Tubman was jointly acquired by the Library and the Smithsonian, and conserved for future generations. ⬇️ blogs.loc.gov/loc/2018/03/ha…

Growing up, I went on many field trips to the Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit. My granddad also worked there. It is a special place. I wrote about the museum & how the 60-year-old institution is finding a new audience with its new social media series contrabandcamp.com/p/one-of-the-o…

When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied. You have a right to see this file. propublica.org/article/find-o…

This is what’s really going to hurt the social media world of ripping off legitimate news sources and passing them off as your own. Lots of people use the AP’s reporting and photos without actually subscribing to the wire service. The AP starts to go, it all starts to go.

I've received a lot of questions from readers about how to support, and even locate, Black farmers. Here's a guide to get you started: capitalbnews.org/support-black-…

A new report shows that the financial pledges that major corporations made to Black nonprofits during the 2020 'racial reckoning' evaporated quickly — and for some, never materialized whatimreading.net/p/financial-pr…