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What Black youth need, Morris Brown president out, RIP Claudette Colvin
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 • Phil Lewis
Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer who refused to give up her seat on bus, has died
Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, at the age of 15, has died.
 • Phil Lewis
What’s missing from the online discourse about the viral Jacksonville Jaguars interview
The Black Press never agreed to conform to the mainstream media’s ideal of “objectivity.”
 • Phil Lewis
A year later in Altadena, Venezuela oil in Black communities, family of Keith Porter speaks
I'm sending the newsletter in bit late this morning — I was waiting to see if the Supreme Court would announce its decision on the future of the Voting…
 • Phil Lewis
Happy New Year, racist AI fakes, RIP Richard Smallwood
Welcome to 2026! Thank you for your support of this newsletter over the past three years.
 • Phil Lewis

December 2025

How Brown’s student body president stepped up after a devastating school shooting
Talib Reddick explained how his commitment to service, brotherhood, and community guided his response during the crisis.
 • Phil Lewis
Black student discrimination ignored, Nicki Minaj embraces MAGA, RIP Betty Reid Soskin
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Tax targeting Gullah-Geechee, over 1,000 nonprofits drop DEI language, I'm on TikTok!
Happy holidays! This newsletter turns 3 years old on January 1st.
 • Phil Lewis
Carl Carlton, "Bad Mama Jama" and "Everlasting Love" singer, dead at 72
A cause of death has not yet been announced.
 • Phil Lewis
Best Black history books of 2025, Kentucky State shooting, Battle of the Real HU
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 • Phil Lewis
Major civil rights erasure, Megan Thee Stallion wins defamation case, new BET president
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University of Alabama shuts down student magazines for Black students, women students
University officials told editors of Alice and Nineteen Fifty-Six that they believed they were out of compliance with Trump administration guidance on…
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