Word In Black

1 week ago | wordinblack.com | Willy Blackmore

Texas’s Harris County — home to Houston — now has the distinction of being one of the only counties in the country to adopt its own climate justice plan.

2 weeks ago | wordinblack.com | Erin Aubry Kaplan

This article was produced by the nonprofit publication Capital & Main. It is published here with permission. There is a wonderful and welcome irony to the fact that the Trump administration is working to sideline or silence the history of racial struggle in the United States while the new American pope is raising the profile of that struggle in a very unexpected way.

2 weeks ago | wordinblack.com | Willy Blackmore

Memphis has had air-quality problems for years. The city consistently ranks on the annual “asthma capitals” list compiled by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America — including 2024’s report, which put it as the 15th “most challenging” place to live with asthma.

3 weeks ago | wordinblack.com | Anissa Durham

We call them addicts. Users. Drug seekers — and we see them as less than human.  We often assume unhoused people living in tents under freeway overpasses are substance users. But it’s our neighbors, our loved ones, and our family. The reality is that most Americans know someone who struggles with substance use. And for Black America, there’s a drug overdose epidemic. “We have historically criminalized substance use in Black and Brown communities — the view has been very harsh.

3 weeks ago | wordinblack.com | Aaricka Washington

Overview: Nonprofits like the Center for Black Educator Development were created to bring diversity to a workforce that is more than 80% white. But the Trump administration's campaign against DEI looks to starve the nonprofits of the federal funds they need to do their work. Gina Dukes knew she wanted to be a teacher the moment she heard a formerly homeless schoolmate talk about the impact teachers had in his life.