October 18, 2025

D’Angelo’s brown sugared soul: An appreciation

By Eugene Holley Jr.
Black News & Views

Andrew Young shares with BNV whether
the civil rights struggles were worth it

By Greg Morrison
Black News & Views

Meet the people defying organ donation trends for Black Americans

By Sughnen Yongo
Black News & Views

Supreme Court takes up GOP-led challenge to Voting
Rights Act that could affect control of Congress

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Black historians strategize how to
preserve culture in racially hostile climate

By Greg Morrison
Black News & Views

New work from Issa Rae, documentaries about Saquon Barkley,
Ye, horror movies part of Black-oriented fall on-screen lineup

By Carla Hay
Black News & Views

Shooting at bar in longstanding South Carolina Gullah
stronghold kills 4 and injures at least 20 more

The Associated Press

PERSPECTIVE: Zohran Mamdani, frontrunner in NYC’s
mayoral race, has good ideas with shaky foundations

By Peter M. Williams
Black News & Views

What we know about the National Guard in Chicago and Portland

The Associated Press

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Andrew Young shares with BNV whether the civil rights struggles were worth it

October 17, 2025

The outside patio area of Willie's Bar and Grill on St. Helena Island, South Carolina, after a shooting occurred early Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. Photo credit: Lewis M. Levine, The Associated Press

Shooting at bar in longstanding South Carolina Gullah stronghold kills 4 and injures at least 20 more

October 13, 2025

Black historians strategize how to preserve culture in racially hostile climate

October 10, 2025

Students at Mississippi’s Delta State are supporting one another in wake of Black classmate’s hanging

October 8, 2025

Arts & Culture

D’Angelo’s brown sugared soul: An appreciation

October 17, 2025

Novelist and poet Ishmael Reed appears in his office at his home in Oakland, California, on June 1, 1998. Photo credit: Paul Sakuma, The Associated Press

Disney buried its racist ‘Song of the South.’ Now an Oakland playwright is digging it back up

October 16, 2025

D’Angelo, Grammy-winning R&B singer who became an icon with ‘Untitled (How Does It Feel),’ dies at 51

October 14, 2025

Issa Rae is seen in "Seen & Heard: the History of Black Television." Photo courtesy of HBO

New work from Issa Rae, documentaries about Saquon Barkley, Ye, horror movies part of Black-oriented fall on-screen lineup

October 10, 2025

2023 BNV Black Pearls

BNV BLACK PEARLS: Halle Bailey rises above race-related criticism, shines in ‘The Little Mermaid,’ ‘The Color Purple’

December 29, 2023

Beyoncé performs during the ABC telecast of the 94th Oscars on March 27, 2023, in Los Angeles. Photo credit: Mason Poole/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty Images

BNV BLACK PEARLS: Beyonce, Blue Ivy set examples through work ethic, diplomacy, belief in people

December 29, 2023

BNV BLACK PEARLS: Black ballet dancers stretch beyond the stage, classroom to help others

December 29, 2023

Boston Celtics' Jaylen Brown during the first half of an NBA preseason basketball game, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, in Amherst, Massachusetts Photo credit: Jessica Hill, The Associated Press

BNV BLACK PEARLS: Celtics’ Jaylen Brown committed to NBA success, social justice

December 29, 2023

Politics

BNV SPECIAL REPORT: COVID-19’s IMPACT on EDUCATION

In the era of COVID-19, Tulsa public schools lost a generation of Black and brown children

March 20, 2023

Educators share how disparities impacted Oakland high schoolers during COVID-19 pandemic

March 20, 2023

Virginia man shares his story of being disabled by COVID

March 20, 2023

COVID-19’s lasting impact on one Washington, D.C., family

March 20, 2023

The Supreme Court is seen in the distance, framed through columns of the U.S. Senate at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 20, 2025. Photo credit: J. Scott Applewhite, The Associated Press

Supreme Court takes up GOP-led challenge to Voting Rights Act that could affect control of Congress

October 15, 2025

As Eric Adams, NYC’s second Black mayor, drops reelection bid, two other candidates lay down arms — for now

October 2, 2025

PERSPECTIVE: Zohran Mamdani, frontrunner in NYC’s mayoral race, has good ideas with shaky foundations

October 2, 2025

In her memoir, Kamala Harris says ‘recklessness’ drove silence on Biden in 2024 campaign

September 10, 2025

Hurricane Katrina: 20 years later

PERSPECTIVE: Hurricane Katrina took something from New Orleans, but we’ve always been resilient

August 28, 2025

WATCH: Remembering Hurricane Katrina 20 years later

August 28, 2025

Traci Curry is the producer of "Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time." Here, she is seen at the Sixth Annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards on Nov. 14, 2021, in Brooklyn, New York. Photo credit: Diane Bondaref, Invision/The Associated Press

Director of NatGeo’s “Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time” talks with BNV about creating the groundbreaking documentary

August 28, 2025

Tony Reid carries belongings from his flood-damaged home in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans on Oct. 3, 2005. Photo credit: Charlie Riedel, The Associated Press

From Morial to Pierce to all who love New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina survivors reflect 20 years later

August 28, 2025

Sports

Washington Bullets player Elvin Hayes holds the NBA Championship trophy in the crowded locker room after the Bullets defeated Seattle to win the NBA title in Seattle, Washington, on June 7, 1978. Photo credit: The Associated Press

SPORTS HISTORY IN BLACK: Elvin Hayes makes his NBA debut

October 17, 2025

SPORTS HISTORY IN BLACK: Marcus Allen enters the college football record books

October 10, 2025

LeBron James teases ‘Decision’ announcement. Could retirement be next?

October 7, 2025

SPORTS HISTORY IN BLACK: Ken Griffey Jr. homerun sets a record

September 26, 2025

Global

In this photo made available by the South African Department of Transport and Community Safety, police officers and emergency rescue workers search for victims from a bus lying upside down in an embankment in Louis Trichardt, South Africa, on Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. Photo courtesy of South African Department of Transport and Community Safety via The Associated Press

Bus crash in mountainous region of South Africa kills 42, injuries 49

October 13, 2025

Academic-led organization in Haiti skeptical of new UN-backed anti-gang force

October 6, 2025

Bochum's Christopher Antwi-Adjei celebrates after scoring the opening goal during the German Bundesliga soccer match between VfL Bochum and FC Augsburg in Bochum, Germany, on May 13, 2023. Photo credit: David Inderlied, dpa via The Associated Press

Racial abuse of Black players spikes early in European soccer season

September 16, 2025

A police officer searches an immigrant in Garges-les-Gonesse, a suburb of Paris, on June, 15, 2021. Photo credit: Lewis Joly, The Associated Press

European court ruling puts France, other countries on notice for racial profiling

July 24, 2025

Health & Wellness

A room at Virginia Commonwealth University's Hume-Lee Transplant Center, Richmond, Virginia. Photo courtesy of Hume-Lee Transplant Center

Meet the people defying organ donation trends for Black Americans

October 17, 2025

Serena Williams talks with her daughter, Olympia, and husband, Alexis Ohanian, after defeating Danka Kovinic, of Montenegro, during the the U.S. Open tennis championships on Aug. 29, 2022, in New York. Photo credit: Charles Krupa, The Associated Press

Fame and riches are no match for the Black maternal health crisis

September 4, 2025

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Desmystifying the stigma: How silence around mental health hurts Black youth

August 18, 2025

Adriana Smith poses with her son. Photo courtesy of GoFundMe.

Adriana Smith, pregnant brain-dead woman whose case raised questions of health equity, delivers baby

June 20, 2025

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PERSPECTIVE: Prominent Black publisher honored by alma mater FAMU spent career giving back

October 13, 2025

Fearless Fund, forced to end grants for Black business women, resurfaces with global initative

October 10, 2025

The Eighth Rule, a soon-to-open whisky bar in San Francisco, marks a partnership between the Golden State Warriors' Steph Curry and celebrity chef Michael Mina. Photo credit: The San Francisco Chronicle

Steph Curry’s San Francisco bourbon bar with Michael Mina is here

October 8, 2025

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One of two Black executives alleging discrimination says world’s largest independent media firm is retaliating; Horizon Media denies all

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