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Shabazz paused to acknowledge the formidable jazz pianist and composer, Mary Lou Williams, and the mission of Duke’s Mary Lou ...

In the early morning of Tuesday, February 17th, Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., completed his assignment on earth, and surrounded by loving family members, took his last breath. He had a lifetime ...

In 1996, Jackson’s calls for more diversity in Hollywood were ignored or criticized. Now "Sinners," a movie by a Black director, has garnered 16 Oscar nominations, the most in the award show's history ...

On Tuesday evening, Shabazz discussed the importance of truth, advocacy and X’s relationship to Duke and Durham in an event sponsored by the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture in honor of ...

Contrary to what the Editor of the so-called Custodian newspaper, presumably based in Ghana rsquo;s capital of Accra, would have his countrymen and women believe, the ideologically grossly misguided ...

Before accepting the Hooks National Book Award at the University of Memphis on Feb. 13, journalist and author Joy-Ann Reid reflected on why she chose to tell the story of Medgar and Myrlie Evers not ...

Brooklyn Matriarch of Faith and Power remembered at 88. Black Star News shares her legacy, faith, family impact and community ...

Dennis Richmond, Jr. Long before a fire turned a Westchester hallway into a national headline, Dr. Betty Shabazz was known for a different kind of heat: the steady, disciplined energy of an educator ...

Ilyasah Shabazz was 2 years old when her father, Malcolm X, was slain in New York City in 1965. She spoke Saturday night at Modesto Junior College about his quest for equality for Black people. And ...

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Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up Ilyasah Shabazz, author, educator and daughter of civil rights ...