Less than a week before Michigan faced a partial government shutdown, Governor Gretchen Whitmer and legislative leaders stood together to announce they had finally reached an agreement on a budget.

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) was adopted in 1979 by the United Nations General Assembly.

Assata Shakur, a revolutionary fighter for Black Liberation, has died, per Cuban news outlet Cubaminrex. She was 78. On Thursday (September 25), Shakur died in Havana, Cuba, “due to health conditions ...

Armah has embarked on a career as a speaker, trainer, and author. “Emotional Justice: A Roadmap for Racial Healing,” her first book, was published in 2022. For one project, she gathered 300 stories, ...

The Shonda Rhimes Hall, set to be completed in 2028, will be the first building at Dartmouth named after a woman and the first named after a Black alum.

Cox was urging people not to play the blame game, and that the shooter was the only person responsible for this heinous crime. In other words, he was doing what a decent and good leader does at a time ...

DETROIT (September 12, 2025) — The Downtown Detroit Partnership (DDP), in collaboration with the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) and the City of Detroit, will kick off the I-75 Cap ...

At a meeting with members of the Black press, CBC Chair Clarke and Reps. Bobby Scott (D-VA), Jennifer McClellan (D-VA), Glenn Ivey (D-MD), Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA), and Wesley Bell (D-MO) spoke ...

Former Detroit City Council candidate Esther Haugabook is ending her write-in campaign she said was encouraged by District 5 ...

On Tuesday (September 30), federal funding is set to expire, triggering a government shutdown unless Congress passes a last-minute funding measure. Lawmakers must either approve all 12 full-year ...

An abandoned graveyard in Maryland is finally being restored to honor the 230 Black boys buried there, who died while confined to the House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children, per the ...

Michigan voters can now cast an absentee ballot for the November general election, a move that continues to expand access while raising the stakes for how residents prepare ahead of Election Day.