A Mississippi family’s attorney is demanding the release of body camera surveillance footage after the state attorney general ruled that an officer was “justified” in the shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Kartier Wiley. “How can anyone accept that conclusion when Kohen’s family and the public still have not been allowed to see the body-camera footage?” […]
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Ilhan Omar Vows That She ‘Will Not Be Silenced’ After U.S. Agents Raid Her Home
Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington, D.C.-area home was raided by federal agents in a predawn search Monday. Homeland Security Investigations, a unit of the Department of Homeland Security that conducts criminal probes, “executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the Department of Justice,” a DOJ spokesperson said in a statement to multiple media […]
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Capital B Augusta Names Renetta DuBose Founding Editor
AUGUSTA, Georgia — Augusta is gaining a new newsroom, a new source for community-centered journalism, and a familiar voice to help lead it. Capital B has named award-winning Augusta journalist Renetta DuBose as the founding editor of Capital B Augusta, its newest local newsroom. Known to audiences throughout the region thanks to her 10 years […]
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Black Augustans Want Local News That Helps Them Prepare for the Next Disaster
Of all the issues we asked Black Augustans about in a survey to understand their news needs — the economy, housing, education — one issue topped them all: how to be prepared for disasters. It’s not hard to see why. Augusta sits along the Savannah River and is still recovering from 2024’s Hurricane Helene. The […]
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Tasia Fortune: Suspect Arrested in Hanging Death in Mississippi
For more than a month, Tasia Fortune’s family has waited for answers after she was found hanging from a tree outside a vacant house in Jackson, Mississippi. This week, authorities arrested a suspect. Jackson Police Chief RaShall Brackney said at a news conference Friday that police had secured search and arrest warrants for Jarques Ratliff, […]
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Capital B Expands Local News Network to Augusta, Georgia
Capital B is headed to Augusta, Georgia! Capital B’s local reporting has helped communities secure resources, demand accountability, and exert the civic power that has helped them shape their own futures. We can’t wait to bring Capital B’s unique brand of community-rooted local journalism, honed in Atlanta and in our Gary, Indiana, newsrooms, to Augusta. […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Black Celebs Who Slayed the 2026 Met Gala
Black celebrities delivered showstopping looks at the 2026 Met Gala, drawing on artistic inspiration at one of the industry’s biggest nights. The theme of the exhibition, “Costume Art,” focuses on the relationship between clothing and the human form. The dress code, “Fashion is Art,” encouraged attendees to celebrate the “dressed body” in all its forms. […]
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Astronaut Victor Glover Jr. Returns From History-Making Mission to the Moon
On Friday night, the first Black man to travel around the moon piloted the Orion spacecraft that returned to Earth and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego. In the hours leading up to Artemis II’s high-speed return, there was a nervous excitement as the pilot Victor Glover Jr., Commander Reid Wiseman, Christina […]
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Henrietta Lacks’ Family Reaches Settlement in Fight Over Her Stolen Cells
A long overdue reckoning for Henrietta Lacks — the Black woman whose cancer cells led to breakthroughs in the field but were harvested without her consent — has been slow but steady in recent years. It took decades for her relatives to learn that her tissue had been used for research and for them to […]
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Your Guide to ‘Rooting for Everybody Black’ at the 2026 Winter Olympics
The 2026 Winter Olympics is in high gear in Italy, and a small contingent of Black athletes are competing on behalf of Team USA. The Winter Games are a space where representation of Black American athletes has been far less than in summer sports. Several of this year’s competitors are Olympic veterans, while others will […]
