Whitney Roberts

What happens to Black expectant people who also happen to be houseless? Cleopatra Robinson, founder of A Home From Shana wants to address that.

Summertime is officially upon us and we outside!

Some folks may not feel very celebratory this Juneteenth. The continued attacks against our rights, the reduction of our social safety nets, and the looming threat of war all have taken a toll on the collective psyche.

MeToo tackles the adultification of Black girls, unveiling a new public service ad at Philly’s Barnes Foundation during “What Do We Owe Black Children?”

Antonio Wooten refuses to lose our recipes. Wooten chooses boldly to hold the culture close by amplifying our multi-dimensional heritages through food during a time when Black culture faces erasure, upticks in hatred, and attacks on our history.

There has been a lot of “talk” around Harriet Tubman lately. After several videos went viral doubting not only the work of Harriet Tubman, who rescued hundreds of people from human trafficking known as enslavement , but also the very existence of Tubman, herself. Yes, for real.

This year is the 50th celebration of the Odunde Festival, the longest running African American cultural event in the city of Philadelphia.

Everyone should agree that our community should be safe, that the people within our community deserve “safety” in every sense of the word. It’s something we want for our families, our friends, for our elders, for our children, for ourselves.

I was 3 months old when Philadelphia Police dropped a bomb from a helicopter on the residential neighborhood of Cobbs Creek. May 13th, 1985 at 5:27pm

Philly Black Pride (PBP) hosted its 26th annual Black Pride celebration on the last weekend of April.

It was a rainy Saturday morning as a small but excited crowd gathered near a yellow schoolbus parked in front of Lloyd Hall. They boarded the bus and were taken away from the bustling boat house row, out of the city to the rolling green hills and farms of West Chester, Pennsylvania.