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Through a new partnership with Google, daily excerpts drafted from Dr. Carl Mack’s Black Heritage Day calendar can now be heard through Google Assistant. Mack, pictured above, released version four of his calendar last year.

World Heart Day. Thometta Cozart, a professional advocate for health equity, got a strong dose of reality when her father had a stroke and then a seizure.

In an effort to better understand and solve the dual sagas wrought from centuries of racial discrimination and COVID, major universities, government agencies, public policy institutes and corporations are releasing new research that analyzes the pandemic’s added challenges that exacerbate historical racial inequities.

A team of four Morehouse College students won first place and $20,000 for its program that uses machine learning to predict increases in rent and utility costs at a particular address over time, offering renters early warning about looming affordability challenges.

Hospital executives were already attuned to workplace violence before the pandemic struck. But stresses from covid have exacerbated the problem, they say, prompting increased security, de-escalation training and pleas for civility. And while many hospitals work to address the issue on their own, nurses and other workers are pushing federal legislation to create enforceable standards nationwide.

Jamie Fox says there's a "whole lot of love" in his family and he just doesn't need the "pressure" of being married.

Black businesses and efforts to boost entrepreneurial education and opportunities at the nation’s 101 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU) and their surrounding communities got a $16.8 million boost today from PNC Bank through the PNC Foundation.

Hartig says the exhibit is part of the vision being established by Lonnie G. Bunch III, the Smithsonian’s first African-American secretary and the first African-American to lead the institution of 19 museums, founded in 1836.

Student have been occupying the building since Oct. 13 and in a press conference Monday said they will continue to do so until Frederick and the school’s board of trustees agrees to meet with the student body for an open discussion about housing and student participation on the board.

Food insecurity is no new issue in D.C., or America, but it remains a real problem for two of the city’s poorest wards as the rest of the city flourishes.