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1954–Who Is Oprah Winfrey?Oprah Winfrey is an Emmy Award–winning talk show host, media executive, Academy Award–nominated actress, and philanthropist. She’s best known for being the host of her wildly popular program, The Oprah Winfrey Show, which aired for 25 seasons, from 1986 to 2011. Its success helped her become the world’s first Black woman billionaire in 2003. Winfrey’s media empire has grown to include a TV network, the Oprah Winfrey Network, and a lifestyle magazine brand. In 1994, she was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame, and in 2018, became the first Black woman to receive the Cecil…

You may never have heard of Brooklyn, Illinois. You might not be aware it’s one of the country’s first Black settlements, or that it’s thought to be the first majority-Black town in America to incorporate and the oldest such town still in existence today. You also probably don’t know that it’s dying. Established in the early 1830s as a refuge for free and enslaved Black people and incorporated in 1873, Brooklyn is nestled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River across from St. Louis. It was once a key outpost on the Underground Railroad and, later, a welcoming beacon…

A Black Indianapolis homeowner who had a nagging suspicion that her house was lowballed in two appraisals last year went to great lengths to conceal her race in a third. She removed photos of herself and her relatives and had a white friend pose as her brother for the appraiser’s home visit.The result? The appraisal of Carlette Duffy’s home more than doubled.Duffy’s home, which was assessed by different companies last year, was first appraised at $125,000, then $110,000 and finally $259,000 in November, according to the Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana. The nonprofit announced this month that it had…

DES MOINES – Blow dryers hum. Electric razors buzz. Steam rolls off strands of hair as they glide through a hot flat iron. This is the scene, on a brisk Saturday morning, at Tranzitions Salon & Beauty Bar in Des Moines, Iowa. A place where black women convene to talk beauty, business and, sometimes, politics.The Hawkeye State is preparing for what the Iowa Democratic Party predicts will be record turnout at this year’s presidential nominating caucus on Monday.But, some black women say they may sit this one out.“I’m not sure if I’ll caucus this year,” 63-year old Cheryl Barnes told…

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As it turns out, nothing about buying back the ’hood to build generational wealth and manage gentrification — as the late rapper Nipsey Hussle so famously encouraged his fans to do — is easy when you’re Black. Not even buying one small corner of it. For about a year, I’ve been following the travails of Akil West, a Black business owner with dreams of purchasing, co-op-style, a small commercial building on Degnan Boulevard in the heart of rapidly gentrifying Leimert Park. Though dilapidated, the building — home to West’s clothing store, Sole Folks, and several other Black-owned businesses, including Eso…

PORTLAND, Ore.—Victor Pierce has worked on the assembly line of a Daimler Trucks North America plant here since 1994. But he says that in recent years he’s experienced things that seem straight out of another time. White co-workers have challenged him to fights, mounted “hangman’s nooses” around the factory, referred to him as “boy” on a daily basis, sabotaged his work station by hiding his tools, carved swastikas in the bathroom, and written the word nigger on walls in the factory, according to allegations filed in a complaint to the Multnomah County Circuit Court in February 2015.Pierce is one of…

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How long you are expected to live and how much money you will earn varies in Utah, depending on your race, ethnicity and sex, according to a new report released Thursday from the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute.The 32-page data book — requested by Utah community leaders to “assist with their equity, diversity and inclusion efforts” and sponsored by Zions Bank — spans topics from demographics to education to health to housing.This report serves as a “collective look in the mirror” for Utahns, according to Natalie Gochnour, director of the Gardner Institute, “to help us see what we look like…

First in an occasional series about racism in our communities.When it comes to race, Vermont is a state caught up in a puzzle over itself and its identity, and the government is looking toward a shift. Gov. Phil Scott recently appointed Xusana Davis to be Vermont’s first executive director of racial equity, and in March signed into law a bill establishing an Ethnic and Social Equity Standards Working Group to adapt educational standards about diversity for Vermont’s schools.The bill cites studies dating back 20 years that say racial issues are pervasive in the state’s schools.According to a U.S. Department of…