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By Anissa Durham | Word In Black (WIB) – At 40 weeks pregnant, Georgina Dukes-Harris drove to her weekly OB-GYN appointment in Clemson, South Carolina. It...

The Birmingham Times The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) last week presented Odessa Woolfolk, the city’s renowned educator, civic leader and lifelong advocate for civil and human rights,...

By DaQuan Lawrence | AFRO International Writer DLawrence@afro.com On Nov. 28 the Thanksgiving holiday will arrive, complete with family gatherings, community events and opportunities to give...

By Matthew McAdow | Cincinnati Herald Contributor With a bye week from the Bengals (fans needed this), this week’s column will be a relief, as...

More than 60 million women and girls worldwide who are forcibly displaced or stateless face high risks of gender-based violence (GBV), but funding for...

By Ariyana Griffin | AFRO Staff Writer agriffin@afro.com On Nov. 25, officials on the federal, state and local levels convened at Baltimore Police Department headquarters to announce...

By Tacuma Roeback, Managing Editor, Chicago Defender On a cool, mostly overcast morning at Oak Woods Cemetery on Chicago’s South Side, friends, colleagues and admirers...

By Aria Brent, AFRO Staff Writer abrent@afro.com Members of the National Action Network (NAN) will gather civil rights and community leaders from across the nation in...

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia As the 100th anniversary of Shirley Chisholm’s birth approaches on November 30, a growing effort to...

On the 25th anniversary of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, world leaders and advocates gathered at the UN Headquarters...