Jan 20, 2025 · by Jeff Meier (FB: Jeff.Me ier.90) Hey Good Black News Fam – it’s time for a bonus playlist – this year’s edition of “Ultimate Soul of the Season – The Black Christmas Soundtrack 2024 Edition,” which you can click here: Ultimate Soul of the Season – The Black Christmas Soundtrack – Expanded for 2024. Each year, we’ve updated our popular holiday music song mix by adding a ...

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson, GBN founder and Editor-in-Chief. Well, here we are, once again. Forty seven years after February was officially recognized by the U.S. government as Black History Month, and ninety seven years after Negro History Week was founded by Carter G. Woodson, “The Father of Black History.”. We are also, once again, deeply distressed by the murder of a young Black person ...

3 days ago · by Jeff Meier (FB: Jeff.Me ier.90) Hey Good Black News Fam – it’s time for a bonus playlist – this year’s edition of “Ultimate Soul of the Season – The Black Christmas Soundtrack 2024 Edition,” which you can click here: Ultimate Soul of the Season – The Black Christmas Soundtrack – Expanded for 2024. Each year, we’ve updated our …

Mar 19, 2024 · Every year on March 18, Good Black News celebrates the day of its founding.We continue that tradition today, fourteen years after GBN’s inception. Even though the last two years have been challenging (details here), and changes in how people consume content (eg.TikTok, IG, IG Stories, Reels) have led to way fewer postings on the main goodblacknews.org site, we are still exceedingly proud of ...

Jun 14, 2016 · The College Board has announced it will begin offering an Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies course at 60 high schools across the U.S. this fall.. The AP program, which traditionally gives high school students an opportunity to take college-level courses before graduation, currently covers 38 subjects, including U.S. government and politics, biology, chemistry, English, European ...

Every year on March 18, Good Black News celebrates the day of its founding.We continue that tradition today, thirteen years after GBN’s inception. Even though this past year has been particularly challenging (details here), and led to way fewer postings on the main goodblacknews.org site as well as the cessation of the GBN Daily Drop Podcast, we are still exceedingly proud of all we’ve ...

Good Black News was founded on March 18, 2010 via Facebook (see the detailed story in our About The Editors sidebar) and is currently expanding to have a larger web presence. You can find us here at goodblacknews.org, on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Linked In, YouTube and Flipboard.GBN is a labor of love, and our Founder/Editor-In-Chief (Lori Lakin Hutcherson) and staff are ...

Jul 22, 2024 · Every year on March 18, Good Black News celebrates the day of its founding.We continue that tradition today, fourteen years after GBN’s inception. Even though the last two years have been challenging (details here), and changes in how people consume content (eg.TikTok, IG, IG Stories, Reels) have led to way fewer postings on the main goodblacknews.org site, we are still exceedingly proud of ...

This week, Apple announced its Racial Equity and Justice Initiative (REJI), a long-term global effort to advance equity and expand opportunities for Black, Hispanic/Latinx, and Indigenous communities, has more than doubled its initial financial commitment to total more than $200 million over the last three years.. Since launching REJI in June 2020, Apple has supported education, economic ...

Jan 12, 2022 · The National Book Foundation announced the 2021 National Book Awards winners list yesterday. Author and poet Jason Mott won the fiction prize for Hell of a Book, while author and historian Tiya Miles garnered the nonfiction prize for All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake. Mott’s Hell of a Book tells the story of an author on a promotional tour and his ...