What does healing actually look like for Black folks — and what's standing in the way? Join us March 4 as we talk with Dr. Joy DeGruy & Dr. Bahia Overton about why the emotional, spiritual, and communal work of healing matters — especially when so many feel overwhelmed, unheard, and exhausted.

"Michael, if you’re reading, we love being Black, too. And nothing — not snubs, not America doing what America does — can take that away from us." wordinblack.com/2026/03/mich...

"Google’s excuse — that the N-word was 'accidentally applied' — sounds technical and contained, as if the slur were corrupted data rather than a word steeped in violence and pain." wordinblack.com/2026/02/goog...

The things our ancestors had to do for freedom. 😭

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The quiet way AI normalizes foreign influence Americans are learning to “trust the citations” in AI-generated answers—but AI doesn’t reward credibility, it rewards access. cyberscoop.com/the-quiet-wa...

New: Trio of Dem senators urge Apple and Google to enforce their own terms of service and ban X, Grok apps for their flood of nonconsensual sexual imagery. I've repeatedly asked both Apple and Google about this for three days. They're completely silent, seemingly hoping the question just goes away.

"And now that the violence has reached people who did not expect it, it does us no good to shout, 'WE TOLD Y’ALL THIS WOULD HAPPEN!'" wordinblack.com/2026/01/this...

From my 2022 book THEY KNEW: "It is very bad in America to be right too early." www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09...

The cruelty of that person's Truth Social post about the tragic murder of Rob Reiner and his wife. Just petty partisan meanness. SMH. It's not for nothing that Toni Morrison said when someone shows you who they are the first time, believe them.

Your doctor just told you that you need an organ transplant — now what? During our “On Borrowed Time” live event, kidney transplant recipient Craig Merritt shares steps to help you care for yourself through the organ transplant process. Watch more: youtu.be/UMa_2BNjuAs?...

AT&T looked at Target and said "Hold my beer."

Houston resident Brandon Jerrod needs a heart. He was diagnosed with congestive heart failure in 2024. He kept gaining weight. "I kept going to doctors & they were like, oh whatever" They dismissed his concerns. He developed severe edema & lost ability to walk. Tune in here: bit.ly/WIBOnBorrowedTime

Happening today! Join us for “On Borrowed Time: A Virtual Conversation on Organ Donation and Black Health” at 1:30 p.m. EST/10:30 a.m. PST. We're diving into the systems that hurt or help Black patients in need of an organ transplant. Tune in here: bit.ly/WIBOnBorrowe...

We’re opening the door to conversations that save lives. On Dec 3 at 1:30 p.m. EST, join Word In Black for “On Borrowed Time,” a live, virtual event exploring the realities of organ donation in the Black community. RSVP: bit.ly/WIBOnBorrowe...

It's Cyber Monday, but if it's not Black-owned, we're not buying it. wordinblack.com/2025/11/if-y...

This is one of the most enlightening and thought-provoking things I’ve read in awhile.

BOYCOTTS DON’T APPLY TO BLACK BUSINESSES. On Black Friday (and every day!) we’re skipping the companies walking back DEI & riding for fascism. So Word In Black pulled together the Black-owned brands we actually spend money on — from skincare to books to apparel. wordinblack.com/2025/11/if-y...

I wrote about what happened to Mario because ABSOLUTELY NOT. wordinblack.com/2025/11/yes-...

Viola Ford Fletcher witnessed what no child should — and died knowing no one was ever held accountable for the trauma she carried for more than a century. wordinblack.com/2025/11/olde...

You would think last Tuesday didn’t happen the way these folks are acting about the shutdown.

Never forget, #wearetheresistance youtube.com/watch?v=1kdf...

This line of people waiting to vote… Los Angeles said NOT TODAY SATAN. (And this is after 30 mins waiting on the street.)

LOS ANGELES FOREVER AND EVER. WOW that was the longest game in World Series history.

Dodgers fans are about to stroke out. THIS IS WILD.

Bottom of the 13th... Can the Dodgers please score already so this can be done, and we can go to bed?

Millions are marching on Oct 18 for #NoKingsDay, a nationwide protest against authoritarianism. In our latest Q&A, @statevoices.bsky.social CEO Alexis Anderson-Reed describes how their network across 32 states is turning resistance into real civic power. #noking wordinblack.com/2025/10/no-k...

This times 10,000.

An organizer friend says, repeatedly, that if it weren’t for Black women leaders there’d be no organizing. The church, naacp, D9 teach them how to organize, from the ground up in many cases. That and Heritage about the other massive training infrastructures left.

Does he WANT TYLENOL TO SUE THE U.S. GOVERNMENT???

Today would be a excellent day to donate to the Black Press. Start with @wordinblacknews.bsky.social givebutter.com/rnV3yA 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Guy on MSNBC just said Charlie Kirk is NOT A POLITICAL FIGURE. What in the revisionist history simulation hell is this?

SO much revisionist history BS being spouted on cable news right now.

Acknowledging the existence of #racism does no good unless we're ready to make systemic changes to improve the situation. Americans Say Racism Exists, but Shrug at Solutions wordinblack.com/2025/08/amer... by @losangelista.bsky.social via @wordinblacknews.bsky.social

“Follow the money. Oil companies. Coal barons. Gas conglomerates. They win by weakening science and strengthening silence. They win when no one is watching. They win when the people’s voices are buried beneath lobbying dollars and propaganda.”https://wordinblack.com/2025/07/the-endangerment-is-us/

Join us on July 30 for a conversation with world-renowned experts Dr. Joy DeGruy & Dr. Bahia Cross about how we support Black youth growing up in a society shaped by anti-Black systems that too often fail to see their full humanity — and can do lasting harm. wordinblack.com/2025/07/word...

So it’s convict leasing.

loving this so far!

“There is a myth we tell ourselves about #Juneteenth, as if #freedom arrived suddenly, like a thunderclap, on June 19, 1865, with General Granger reading General Order No. 3 to the enslaved people in Galveston, Texas.” @wordinblacknews.bsky.social @mustafasantiagoali.bsky.social

You need to read this piece by @losangelista.bsky.social. wordinblack.com/2025/06/shou...

Folks need to stop getting on planes clearly FEVERISH and mask-free while hacking up a lung, sounding like they're at death's door. It's just rude, and I don't care what illness you have, I DO NOT WANT IT.

ALSO MY SON GRADUATES FROM COLLEGE TODAY!

Happy Heavenly 100th Birthday to our Beloved El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. Team @wordinblacknews.bsky.social put together some beautiful stories honoring the life, ideas, and legacy of Malcolm X. Whole series is here: wordinblack.com/category/ser...

Fantastic ending to Baroness Kidron's speech in the House of Lords yesterday, which led to the government's defeat on AI & copyright. Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."

“It’s humiliating — humiliating for the United States to have Qatar provide the plane for the president of the United States." – Former White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter, who served in a Republican administration

Is Pope Leo Black? “Here’s another situation where, potentially, it’s a chance to revisit our assumptions about what makes race in the first place. Is it ancestry? Is it geography? Is it language? Is it biological?” says Phillipe Copeland, a professor & racial justice expert @bostonu.bsky.social.

Last day of #teacherappreciationweek so shout out to all the Black teachers. And special love to @selmekki.bsky.social who has dedicated his all to ensuring Black folks become teachers. He wrote this for @wordinblacknews.bsky.social about how to fight for schools wordinblack.com/2025/05/5-th...

As Brandon Johnson, @mayorofchicago.bsky.social put it, "Chicago has been at the center of the labor rights movement," making Pope Leo's election a “true sign that the rights of workers will be prioritized” by the Catholic church.

The Pope's social media team clearly needs to include his daily Wordle and Connections scores so we can see how we stack up. I also want to know what his streak count is.

I have a whole list of better names for a Chicago-born pope: Pope 588-2300 EMPIRE Pope Dan Ryan to 95th. Pope This Red Line Train Will Run Express to Howard Pope It's Time for the Percolater Pope 102.7 WBMXXXXXX Pope Fly the W