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Daily, inspiring Black stories at your fingertips. PushBlack is a nonprofit media company dedicated to raising up Black voices.

We are a small team but we have an outsized impact:

We reach tens of millions of people with our BLACK NEWS & HISTORY STORIES every year. We fight for CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM to protect our community. And as a nonprofit, we rely on small donations from subscribers like you. With as little as $5 a month, you can help PushBlack raise up Black voices. Support our work: https://www.pushblack.us/donate-now?donationsource=facebookabout

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06/25/2025

What does it mean when the plot of a story written over thirty years ago seems to be coming true? How can what we observe every day help us change the ending?

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PushBlack is a Black-led nonprofit dedicated to raising up Black voices. Click the “donate” button at the top of our page to support Black-led media!

We live in a time when the lines between reality and fiction blur with every click, swipe, and headline. Like Lauren Olamina in

06/24/2025

Why was Ras Baraka, mayor of Newark and son of Amiri and Amina Baraka, arrested by federal immigration police in his own city? Let’s break it down. There’s the history, and then there’s Trump’s sinister plans for the years ahead.

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After a 15-year contract was announced to make re-entry and rehabilitation center Delaney Hall into an immigrant prison, Newark

06/23/2025

Footage of a harrowing standoff between two children with a firearm and cops went viral. Fortunately, this time, the children made it out alive. Black children like Tamir Rice and Aiyana Jones often don't. Here’s the difference.

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As a nonprofit, we can only keep producing daily Black history and current events stories with the help of small donations from people like you. Will you click the donate button at the top of our page and chip in whatever you can?

It’s a horrifying sight: two boys, just seven and nine years old, armed with a loaded handgun facing off against Albuquerque, New Mexico police. We don’t want to think about what might happen next. But, despite clumsy

06/22/2025

They called it the 4H Club, but it had nothing to do with heads, hearts, hands, and health. They used the phrase to spread a sickening lie about a deadly disease.

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Before the 1980s, members of 4-H Clubs knew that the term stood for “head, heart, hands, and health.” But when HIV appeared in the 1980s, the CDC cre...

06/21/2025

Jesse Washington did nothing wrong. But the raging white mob didn’t care about his innocence. There was entertainment to be had at his fatal expense, and every limb of his body would turn a profit for them all.

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As a nonprofit, we can only keep producing daily Black history and current events stories with the help of small donations from people like you. Will you click the donate button at the top of our page and chip in whatever you can?

We don’t know much about Jesse Washington. He was a 17-year-old Black farmhand working in Robinson, Texas, in the spring of 1916. And the only photos that we have of him are of his horrific last moments.

06/20/2025

Firing the first Black Librarian of Congress was the wrong move, Trump. It’s about more than just books. Here’s how histories of attacks on information and knowledge intertwine with genocide — and lay the blueprint for our resistance.

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What crime did the first Black Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, commit? To Trump, who fired her in May, it was

06/19/2025

Walmart created the stupidest, most racist ice cream “flavor” for Juneteenth. We didn’t ask for this. But there’s a long, twisted history of white-owned companies trying to profit off our Blackness. Will it ever stop?

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In 2022, Walmart got caught up trying to sell a "Junet...

06/18/2025

What does it mean to “police the police”? In the 60s, that looked like Black Panthers following cops around on patrols, guns at the ready. And today? In Ohio, there’s Rodney Hinton Jr. — and this new armed patrol group, posing a major threat.

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PushBlack’s criminal justice activism WORKS - we helped get the K*K cop in Muskegon, MI FIRED! Support our work by donating today by clicking the button at the top of our page.

On May 14, Rodney Hinton Jr. pleaded insanity for killing a Cincinnati police officer one day after an officer

06/17/2025

When the Black Panthers’ influence began to grow, the FBI devised a childish false flag operation to discredit them. They attempted to keep everyone coloring inside the lines with one simple book.

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The FBI released the Black Panther Coloring Book in 1968, in an outlandish and desperate attempt to discredit the movement. Many

06/16/2025

Do you know someone who often hesitates or finds reasons not to go to the doctor? Or maybe you’re the one who waits until you have a “real” reason to go. Well, there may be a reason for the hesitancy. Here’s what history says.

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PushBlack is a Black-led nonprofit dedicated to raising up Black voices. Click the “donate” button at the top of our page to support Black-led media!

Studies conducted as recent as 2022 have shown that white doctors often use negative descriptors of Black (but not white) patients in their chart...

06/15/2025

We’re in a time now where damaging Tesla property is “domestic terrorism” to the Department of Justice — and this time their bark is matching their bite. But here’s why our history shreds their flimsy argument.

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Did you know that PushBlack fights for CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM? If you can donate to support our work by clicking the donate button at the top of our page, it has a huge impact!

Domestic terrorists. Potential deportees. Violent saboteurs. That’s how

06/14/2025

Trump wants to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz Prison. Is that another one of his fever dreams, or could it become a reality? Either way, Alcatraz was more than the home of Al Capone and the Birdman. Black prisoners held down the civil rights struggle there, too.

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PushBlack’s criminal justice reporting and activism has had MAJOR impacts - but to continue it we need your support! Can you donate by clicking the button at the top of our page?

President Trump wants Alcatraz. On May 4, he announced his order to reopen it as a prison for the first time since 1963. Trump isn’t the...

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