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by Daniel Johnson August 18, 2025 Earlier in August, Saint Augustine’s secured an important victory, a federal injunction that allows the university to keep its accreditation. The beleaguered Saint Augustine’s University appointed its first Black woman chair to its Board of Trustees as it attempts to create stability to restore
On a recent evening in Senegal ‘s capital of Dakar, an imam named Ibrahima Diane explained to a group of men why they should be more involved in household chores. “The Prophet himself says a man who does not help support his wife and children is not a good Muslim,” the 53-year-old
by Daniel Johnson August 18, 2025 Five former players are accusing their former coach, Maria Moseley, of psychological abuse, mental cruelty, retaliation, and discrimination Five former University of Wisconsin women’s basketball players filed a federal lawsuit against the school’s former coach, Maria Moseley, its former sports administrator, Justin Doherty, and
California Democrats are making a partisan push to draw new congressional districts and reshape the state’s U.S. House representation in their favor, but to pull it off, lawmakers returning to the Capitol on Monday face a tight deadline and must still win voters’ approval. Limits on federal immigration raids and advancing racial
by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman August 18, 2025 Tyrone’s Barber & Beauty Salon initially opened to serve Black servicemen from the nearby Air Force base. A Black-owned barbershop and beauty salon in Biloxi, Mississippi, has a new historic marker outside its doors. Tyrone’s Barber & Beauty Salon has stood in the southern city
by Daniel Johnson August 17, 2025 Lawyers for Payton Gendron argued that the federal charges should be dropped because there were not enough Black people on the jury that convicted him. On Aug. 14, lawyers for Payton Gendron, the white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket
by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman August 17, 2025 The Breeze Airways flight was diverted after the man managed to break free from restraints twice, police said. A Breeze Airways flight from Virginia to Los Angeles was diverted after a drunk passenger caused an offensive disruption, resulting in another passenger coming to the
by BLACK ENTERPRISE Editors August 17, 2025 School buses, shuttle buses, and retired coaches—vehicles once bound to route schedules and field trips are being reborn as rolling homes for the disenchanted and the deliberate. They used to chase the horizon in rust-stained Sprinter vans, solar panels bolted to the roof
Author and Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion journalist Robin Givhan is leaving the Washington Post. The Washington Association of Black Journalists confirmed today that Givhan took a buyout from The Post after more than two decades of contributing to the newspaper. She worked as a senior critic-at-large for The Post, most known
As President Donald Trump declared Washington, D.C., a crime-ridden wasteland in need of federal intervention and threatened similar federal interventions in other Black-led cities, several mayors compared notes. The president’s characterization of their cities contradicts what they began noticing last year: that they were seeing a drop in violent crime after a pandemic-era
by Daniel Johnson August 18, 2025 Earlier in August, Saint Augustine’s secured an important victory, a federal injunction that allows the university to keep its accreditation. The beleaguered Saint Augustine’s University appointed its first Black woman chair to its Board of Trustees as it attempts to create stability to restore
On a recent evening in Senegal ‘s capital of Dakar, an imam named Ibrahima Diane explained to a group of men why they should be more involved in household chores. “The Prophet himself says a man who does not help support his wife and children is not a good Muslim,” the 53-year-old
by Daniel Johnson August 18, 2025 Five former players are accusing their former coach, Maria Moseley, of psychological abuse, mental cruelty, retaliation, and discrimination Five former University of Wisconsin women’s basketball players filed a federal lawsuit against the school’s former coach, Maria Moseley, its former sports administrator, Justin Doherty, and
California Democrats are making a partisan push to draw new congressional districts and reshape the state’s U.S. House representation in their favor, but to pull it off, lawmakers returning to the Capitol on Monday face a tight deadline and must still win voters’ approval. Limits on federal immigration raids and advancing racial
by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman August 18, 2025 Tyrone’s Barber & Beauty Salon initially opened to serve Black servicemen from the nearby Air Force base. A Black-owned barbershop and beauty salon in Biloxi, Mississippi, has a new historic marker outside its doors. Tyrone’s Barber & Beauty Salon has stood in the southern city
by Daniel Johnson August 17, 2025 Lawyers for Payton Gendron argued that the federal charges should be dropped because there were not enough Black people on the jury that convicted him. On Aug. 14, lawyers for Payton Gendron, the white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket
by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman August 17, 2025 The Breeze Airways flight was diverted after the man managed to break free from restraints twice, police said. A Breeze Airways flight from Virginia to Los Angeles was diverted after a drunk passenger caused an offensive disruption, resulting in another passenger coming to the
by BLACK ENTERPRISE Editors August 17, 2025 School buses, shuttle buses, and retired coaches—vehicles once bound to route schedules and field trips are being reborn as rolling homes for the disenchanted and the deliberate. They used to chase the horizon in rust-stained Sprinter vans, solar panels bolted to the roof
Author and Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion journalist Robin Givhan is leaving the Washington Post. The Washington Association of Black Journalists confirmed today that Givhan took a buyout from The Post after more than two decades of contributing to the newspaper. She worked as a senior critic-at-large for The Post, most known
As President Donald Trump declared Washington, D.C., a crime-ridden wasteland in need of federal intervention and threatened similar federal interventions in other Black-led cities, several mayors compared notes. The president’s characterization of their cities contradicts what they began noticing last year: that they were seeing a drop in violent crime after a pandemic-era