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Florida makes drastic changes to AIDS drug program

AIDS organizations and others are crying foul after an emergency rule went into effect in Florida last weekend that could restrict access to HIV ... View article...

San Francisco church vandalized with hate speech as suspect faces felony charges

Prosecutors say the suspect was also in possession of pro-Nazi items and had posted threats online targeting Jewish , LGBTQ , and immigrant communities . View article...

House OKs bill with child abuse exemptions that allow conversion therapy

... LGBTQ advocates condemned as exempting LGBTQ conversion therapy from being considered child abuse. House lawmakers voted 65-31 along party lines  ... View article...

Advocates Warn of Safety Risks for LGBTQ Youth After Supreme Court Decision

Jorge Reyes Salinas, a spokesperson for LGBTQ advocacy group Equality California, said school administrators will be forced to make case-by-case ... View article...

Survey finds Black Americans have wider family networks

The survey finds  Black Americans  have wider family networks than other U.S. adults, often encompassing non-relatives like close friends and play ... View article...

Black America: 100 Years of Black History Month

The goal of “ Negro History Week ” was to acknowledge the accomplishments of African  Americans  as a whole, not just the “notable” ones. In 1976, the ... View article...

'The camera is my weapon of choice': Gordon Parks' era-defining shots of segregation

In the summer of 1956, the  American  news magazine Life dispatched its first  Black  staff photographer, Gordon Parks , to Alabama , with a brief to ... View article...

Enslaved people transformed clothing into instruments of rebellion, research reveals

His essay reveals how textiles operated as violent aesthetic tools in the formation of  Black  existence during  American  slavery, exposing why ... View article...

In 'Freedom Lost, Freedom Won,' Eugene Robinson tells U.S. racial history through his family's story

In 1829, a wealthy white planter in South Carolina purchased four enslaved  Black Americans . One of them was Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist  ... View article...

'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. View article...

Black families maintain deep support networks, Pew study finds

Black Americans  are more likely than other racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. to rely on extended relatives and even nonrelatives for emotional ... View article...

8 facts about Americans and TikTok

Black  and Hispanic teens are more likely than White teens to be almost-constant TikTok users. (In that survey, there were not enough Asian teens in ... View article...