Nicole Murphy, founder and CEO of Barter Black®, created a membership-based bartering platform to help Black entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses by exchanging services. Barter Black® is currently open to U.S.-based Black entrepreneurs running p...Read More

A surge in measles is too important to ignore. Measles, a highly contagious virus, is not new, but a current increase is driven by gaps in community immunity, particularly in areas with lower vaccination coverage, according to Dr. Nekaiya Jacobs Pratt. “B...Read More

As a child growing up in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, the concept of 24-hour, daily programming never entered my mind. The notion of anyone contacting someone after bedtime wasn’t considered rude because it rarely occurred to anyone to do so. The exception was if ...Read More

Thomas H. Watkins built a daily Black newspaper in New York City when few believed it could survive and even fewer wanted it to succeed. Watkins, who died in December at 88, founded the New York Daily Challenge and made it the first Black-owned daily newspa...Read More

BALTIMORE, MD — The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) has announced two significant curatorial fellowship appointments that underscore the institution’s commitment to forward-thinking scholarship and expansive approaches to museum practice. Dr. Rhea L. Combs h...Read More

BALTIMORE, MD — Two Baltimore-area high school students are heading to Walt Disney World Resort this spring after being selected for the prestigious 2026 Disney Dreamers Academy, a nationally recognized mentoring and leadership program designed to inspire an...Read More