"Intuitive Dare & Tactical Drive To Forge Ahead"
by Samantha Melamed and Dylan Purcell, The Philadelphia Inquirer Co-published with The Philadelphia Inquirer October 13, 2026, 5:00 am Listen19:00 This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Philadelphia Inquirer. Sign up for Dispatches to get our stories in your inbox every week. Reporting Highlights Scant Funding, Few Standards: Read More…
One morning in July 2025, I was the lone spectator in Judge Frank Palumbo’s courtroom in Philadelphia, watching prosecutors and public defenders haggle over the fates of defendants. Palumbo paused the proceedings to talk to a lawyer he’d appointed to help a prisoner who had ineptly challenged his conviction. The lawyer profusely thanked the Read More…
Black women and girls represent an outsized share of LA homicide victims – frustrated with police and legislators’ failures, they’re stepping up and speaking out to stop the violence Abené Clayton in Los Angeles with photographs by Julien Jame As a child, Tioni Theus was a ball of energy. After school she liked to play Read More…
After spending a total of 178 days in space, former NASA astronaut Ron Garan returned to Earth with something far more valuable than mission data. He came back with a different perspective on humanity and the planet we call home. From the International Space Station, Earth doesn’t look like a collection of countries, borders or Read More…
2026 SPIRITUAL: NOVEMBER’s Psychology and Sociology Within Drumming Drumming therapy has potential to be therapeutic in a variety of ways. USING DRUMS FOR COMMUNICATION ALLOWED PEOPLE TO COMMUNICATE OVER VERY LONG DISTANCES OF THICK BRUSH AND JUNGLE. DRUM LANGUAGES AND SLAVERY. SOME OF THE DARKER HISTORY SURROUNDING THE USE OF DRUMS WAS ON SLAVE SHIPS Read More…
Earlier this week, controversy came for the Lip Bar, the Black-owned beauty brand founded by Melissa Butler. During an Adweek panel, the Lip Bar’s vice-president of marketing, Yasmine H. Parrish, discussed the company’s strategic efforts to broaden its consumer base at Target — beyond its core demographic of Black millennial women — to offset Read More…
THE SUMMARY The story of 100 bikers surrounding a courthouse after a judge sent a beaten child back home is a viral internet narrative or creative fiction rather than a verified news event. Search results for this specific headline primarily lead to Facebook posts and clickbait articles that repackage a similar but distinct Read More…
Perhaps it’s a testimony to the power of love – example after example of couples who feel so deeply that when one spouse dies, the other succumbs soon after. Earlier this month, Harold and Ruth Knapke died within 11 hours of one another in their shared room in an Ohio nursing home. In July, Read More…
By Joelle Clark-Kills Crow Indian The global media apparatus is highly skilled at producing theater. Turn on the news or scroll through social media, and you are instantly bombarded with a carefully curated circus: partisan bickering, corporate-sponsored election stunts, and the frantic hand-wringing of a political class obsessed with its own survival. We are Read More…
Michael Henry, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Gridmaster Energy, Inc., one of the very few Black-owned energy companies in the U.S., has acquired Gridmaster Solar One Inc. and is merging the two businesses into one company. He acquired Solar One for its experienced sales force and its proven franchise business model, but he will Read More…
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