Editor's PicksHistoryIn 1968, Black Americans Debated What to Call Themselvesyasturias78@gmail.comFebruary 19, 2026February 19, 2026 by yasturias78@gmail.comFebruary 19, 2026February 19, 2026023 In 1968, as the country wrestled with civil rights, identity, and power, JET magazine asked a deceptively simple question: What... Read more
Editor's PicksHistoryVideosThe Pruitt Igoe Experimentyasturias78@gmail.comFebruary 15, 2026February 16, 2026 by yasturias78@gmail.comFebruary 15, 2026February 16, 20260393 During the Cold War, parts of St. Louis became the site of secret U.S. Army testing meant to study how... Read more
VideosBefore Social Media, They Had This Raw Debate on Live TVyasturias78@gmail.comFebruary 8, 2026February 15, 2026 by yasturias78@gmail.comFebruary 8, 2026February 15, 2026010552 A nationally televised conversation from 1968, aired on PBS as part of a series created to present Black American life... Read more
NewsInglewood Daycare Worker Caught on Video Throwing Shoe at 5-year-old Special Needs Childyasturias78@gmail.comFebruary 5, 2026February 5, 2026 by yasturias78@gmail.comFebruary 5, 2026February 5, 20260821 A mother in Inglewood says she is outraged after surveillance video showed a daycare employee throwing a shoe that struck... Read more
HistoryPhilip A. Payton Jr. – The Black Real-Estate Strategist Who Helped Flip Harlem’s Color Lineyasturias78@gmail.comFebruary 5, 2026February 5, 2026 by yasturias78@gmail.comFebruary 5, 2026February 5, 20260745 Philip Anthony Payton Jr. (February 27, 1876 – August 29, 1917) was a Black real-estate entrepreneur best known for building... Read more
Editor's PicksHistoryVideosViolence or Non-Violenceyasturias78@gmail.comFebruary 1, 2026February 16, 2026 by yasturias78@gmail.comFebruary 1, 2026February 16, 20264 7200 This clip features Russell Meeks speaking during a live public television special broadcast in 1968. These programs were aired without... Read more
News‘Sanford and Son’ star Grady Demond Wilson dead at 79yasturias78@gmail.comFebruary 1, 2026February 1, 2026 by yasturias78@gmail.comFebruary 1, 2026February 1, 202601470 Demond Wilson, the actor best known for portraying Lamont Sanford on the landmark 1970s sitcom Sanford and Son, has died... Read more
Editor's PicksHistoryThe FBI’s Secret War on Black Americayasturias78@gmail.comJanuary 31, 2026February 1, 2026 by yasturias78@gmail.comJanuary 31, 2026February 1, 202601277 COINTELPRO is one of those phrases that floats around American history like a warning label everyone’s seen but few have... Read more
HistoryWhen Muhammad Ali Walked Into Iraq to Free American Hostagesyasturias78@gmail.comJanuary 30, 2026January 30, 2026 by yasturias78@gmail.comJanuary 30, 2026January 30, 2026034 When Muhammad Ali Walked Into Iraq to Free American Hostages In November 1990, as the world braced for war in... Read more
NewsVideosSyracuse Woman Who Lived at Husband’s Grave for Months Finds New Home After Police Interventionyasturias78@gmail.comJanuary 28, 2026January 30, 2026 by yasturias78@gmail.comJanuary 28, 2026January 30, 202606173 For more than half a year, Rhea Holmes lived in silence among the headstones of Oakwood Cemetery in Syracuse, New... Read more