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The Trump is cutting off funding to Louisiana's Whitney Plantation, the only plantation museum in the country solely dedicated to telling the story of slavery and honoring the lives of enslaved people. (Elsa Hahne via whitneyplantation.org)

More Federal Grants Yanked from Black History Sites

by Stacy M. Brown April 23, 2025April 23, 2025

The Trump administration has been cutting funding to Black history museums and libraries, including the Whitney Plantation in Louisiana, in an attempt to erase Black history from public institutions.

**FILE** A Target store in Northern Virginia (Wikimedia Commons)

Business

Target Boycott Founders Fire Back: ‘No Side Deals, No Silence’

by Stacy M. Brown April 22, 2025April 22, 2025

**FILE** Courtesy of African American Mayors Association

Politics

African American Mayors Set to Convene in Nation’s Capital for Landmark Conference

by Stacy M. Brown April 15, 2025April 15, 2025

crop anonymous black mother holding hand of baby lying on bed

Health

Decades of Data Show Deadly Gap for Black Children

by Stacy M. Brown April 10, 2025April 10, 2025

Politics

Tariffs Are Crushing Black Women, Advocate Warns

by Stacy M. Brown April 9, 2025April 17, 2025

Black Experience

Whitewashing in Real Time, From Harriet Tubman to Target Stores

by Stacy M. Brown April 7, 2025April 8, 2025

Kevin Young, the director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, is currently on personal leave and not leading the museum. (Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution/Leah L. Jones)

Lifestyle

Director on Leave as Trump Order Targets African American History Museum and Cultural Institutions

by Stacy M. Brown April 3, 2025April 3, 2025

**FILE** Despite President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting “anti-American ideaology” in cultural institutions, Lonnie G. Bunch III, the first African American to lead the Smithsonian Institution, is laying a path forward for staff. (Courtesy photo)

Black History

Black History Under Fire: Trump’s Executive Order Puts Smithsonian’s Future at Risk

by Stacy M. Brown April 1, 2025April 1, 2025

**FILE** UDR, Inc., the property manager of Waterside Towers Apartments in Washington, D.C., will pay $50,000 in penalties and adopt sweeping reforms after allegedly ignoring repeated complaints from Black women tenants about violent and racist harassment by a white male neighbor — who was later convicted of a hate crime. (Michael A. McCoy/The ��app)

Community

UDR to Pay $50K After Failing to Protect Black Women Tenants From Hate, Harassment

by Stacy M. Brown March 27, 2025March 27, 2025

**FILE** Dr. Calvin Rolark, founder and first publisher of The ��app, with his daughter Denise Rolark Barnes, current publisher of the newspaper. (WI photo)

Black Experience

The ��app at 60: ‘If It is to Be, It is Up to Me’

by James Wright Jr. and Micha Green March 26, 2025March 27, 2025

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