Most parents don’t like to admit how often they plop their children in front of the TV as a temporary babysitter. However, with the public murder of George Floyd, along with other police attacks, political injustices, and pandemic disparities facing African Americans over the past year, stress has hit us like a ton of bricks.…

Just over twenty years ago, visionary attorney Julieanna Richardson looked around and saw that much of the public knowledge of the Black experience and the contributions of African Americans was extremely limited and in some instances, harmful to American society as a whole. So she set out to research, gather information and interviews and document and preserve…

A little while ago, director Adam Wingard got into a bit of hot water over why he chose to make King Kong the POV in his blockbuster “Godzilla vs. Kong.” His precise words: “Nobody wants to watch ‘Rocky’ and have it be about Apollo Creed.” It was an eyebrow-raising bit of clickbait, and it awakened a reflection…

I have watched intrigued by Chicago native Troy Pryor as he was expanding his company over the last few years and thought he would make a great cover story for our Black Writers Week. He is motivated and works tirelessly to create opportunities in the entertainment industry for himself and others, especially African-Americans and other people…

During the first half of the twentieth century, the only well-known African-American (AA) scientist who was applauded before generations of school children was Dr. George Washington Carver. It is very refreshing to witness the positive national and international recognition of the scientific work of other African-American scientists, including the recent recognition of Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett…

Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett is a research fellow and the scientific lead for the Coronavirus Vaccines & Immunopathogenesis Team at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Vaccine Research Center (VRC). She received a B.S. in Biological Sciences, with a secondary major in Sociology, in 2008 from the University…