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Introducing an innovative partnership among the top Black news publishers in the country. Word In Black is dedicated to tackling inequalities, highlighting solutions, and amplifying the Black narrative by sharing real stories from communities nationwide. Our mission is to unify efforts and create a platform where these experiences can be explored, ultimately influencing how our country perceives and addresses systemic challenges related to race, justice, and equity. We believe that a shared understanding can lead to a powerful collective impact. Our ambitious goal is to become the most reliable news and information resource created for, by, and about Black individuals. We also welcome everyone who cares about the future of Black communities—regardless of their own background—to join us in this important mission and help make this initiative a reality.

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Trump Is Ignoring St Louis’s Devestating Tornado

4 days ago | wordinblack.com | Willy Blackmore

One of the most destructive tornadoes in recent years tore a 23-mile path across urban St Louis on May 16, causing an estimated $1.6 billion in damages and killing five people. While it was not quite as powerful as the 2011 tornado that leveled much of Joplin, Mo., the St Louis twister is drawing comparisons.
Trump Is Ignoring St Louis’s Devastating Tornado

4 days ago | wordinblack.com | Willy Blackmore

One of the most destructive tornadoes in recent years tore a 23-mile path across urban St Louis on May 16, causing an estimated $1.6 billion in damages and killing five people. While it was not quite as powerful as the 2011 tornado that leveled much of Joplin, Mo., the St Louis twister is drawing comparisons.
5 Years After George Floyd We're Living Through the Whitelash

1 week ago | wordinblack.com | Erin Aubry Kaplan

This article was produced by the nonprofit publication Capital & Main. It is published here with permission. Every Wednesday for the last eight years, members of Black Lives Matter have gathered in Downtown Los Angeles in front of the office of the Police Protective League. They come to protest the League, which they have long said acts less like a union and more like a gang that shields its members from accountability when police profile — or kill — people of color.
Here’s What $1B in Cuts Mean for Black Kids’ Mental Health

1 week ago | wordinblack.com | Quintessa Williams

Research shows that suicide rates among Black youth have climbed by nearly 37% over the past five years, with Black teens now reporting higher attempt rates than their white and Hispanic peers. At the same time, Black and Native American students are 1.3 times more likely than white students to attend schools with a police officer — but no school mental health counselor.
In Cancer Alley, There’s No Pollution Monitoring While Black

1 week ago | wordinblack.com | Willy Blackmore

Over the past few years, some homes in the 90% Black census tract located uncomfortably close to the proposed Formosa Plastics plant in St. James Parish, Louisiana, have been outfitted with new air quality monitors. The proposed plant would be in the River Parishes — the 85-mile stretch between Baton Rouge and Louisiana, more infamously known as Cancer Alley.
Why Sex Education Starts at Home

1 week ago | wordinblack.com | Anissa Durham

When was the last time you spoke to your child about sex? For many parents and guardians, talking about the birds and the bees can be difficult, uncomfortable, and cringy. But Black families, talking about sex carries an added urgency: Federal data shows Black youth account for a third of all U.S. STI cases, while Black women make up half of new HIV diagnoses.
The Truth About School Policing

2 weeks ago | wordinblack.com | Quintessa Williams

In the spring of 2020, a video of George Floyd being murdered by a Minneapolis police officer went viral. And then â€” something unprecedented happened: millions filled the streets, marching and demanding the defunding of police, community-centered care, and an acknowledgement that Black lives truly matter â€” not just on the streets, but in classrooms and school hallways. School districts responded, too.
Will Black Students Lose More Support Without Desegregation?

2 weeks ago | wordinblack.com | Quintessa Williams

Decades after the watershed Brown v. Board of Education decision, multiple studies confirm K-12 public schools across the country are more racially segregated today than they were when the case was decided in May 1954. But just weeks before the 71st anniversary of the historic ruling, the Department of Justice quietly ended a federal school desegregation order in Louisiana — a case that had been under court supervision since 1966.
Don’t Call It a Comeback: Segregated Schools Have Been Here for Years

2 weeks ago | wordinblack.com | Quintessa Williams

Decades after the watershed Brown v. Board of Education decision, multiple studies confirm that K–12 public schools across the country are more racially segregated today than they were in 1954, when the case was decided.
Malcolm X Still Scares America -That’s Why Schools Erase Him

2 weeks ago | wordinblack.com | Quintessa Williams

“Malcolm X at 100” is Word In Black’s series honoring the life, ideas, and legacy of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz on what would have been his 100th birthday. When Jesse Hagopian first encountered Malcolm X, it wasn’t in a textbook or classroom lecture. It was through Spike Lee’s iconic 1992 film. “I realized I needed to learn more,” Hagopian, educator and director of the Teaching for Black Lives campaign at the Zinn Education Project, tells Word In Black.