Today: April 11, 2025
As diplomats finalize agendas for November’s COP 30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil—a gathering already overshadowed by 2024’s unprecedented 1.5°C temperature breach—I can’t help but think back to the first time I met Dr. Shirley Mo Ching Yeung. It was 2019 at…
Morgan DeBaun has never been afraid to build her own table. As the founder and CEO of Blavity Inc.—the media company she launched from her San Francisco apartment in 2014—she’s built a cultural empire that centers Black voices, scales multi-million dollar brands,…
“No sleepovers,” immigrant parents often firmly state, driven by a protective love shaped by their challenging journeys and experiences of being strangers in a new land. Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini, a dynamic Nigerian-British playwright and screenwriter from East London, transforms this simple yet…
This year, journalism found itself at an inflection point. At “Covering A Divided Nation: Lessons from Black and Brown Media,” a summit and event organized by URL Media and co-hosted by and held at the National Press Club Journalism Institute. I was…
Washington, D.C. — Nov. 18, 2024 — Black-owned media-tech company TANTV was awarded a $50,000 pre-seed investment from Pharrell Williams’ Black Ambition, an organization dedicated to supporting underrepresented Black and Hispanic entrepreneurs. This funding, which contributes to TANTV’s current round total of…
Chidimma Adetshina made history as she emerged as the 1st runner-up at the 73rd Miss Universe competition held in Mexico City in 2024 in a dazzling night of pure elegance. Competing against 130 contestants from around the globe, she shattered records as…
When you think of solving complex public health challenges, you might imagine teams of scientists in sophisticated laboratories or veteran engineers with decades of experience. You probably wouldn’t picture a fifth-grade student working on a class project. Yet Eniola Shokunbi, a 12-year-old…
The conversation between lawyer and political activist Adeshola Mos-Shogbamimu and her daughter shines a light on a struggle familiar to many young, first-time voters.…
Racism in the food system can be traced back to slavery in the Americas. The exploitation of Black labor established a powerful agricultural system that not only built the nation’s wealth but also perpetuated mistreatment, discrimination, and exploitation of people of color.…
A recent study has revealed alarming racial disparities in cesarean section (C-section) rates, indicating that Black women are significantly more likely to undergo unnecessary C-sections compared to their white counterparts. This research, which analyzed nearly one million births across 68 hospitals in…
