During The Great Migration, Black families in the rural South moved North to chase the “American Dream.” Instead of finding a better life, they found terror aimed at them by their next-door neighbors, as well as predatory practices like “redlining.”

And yet, they still fought.

Writer Emmanuel “Manny” Maduakolam teamed…

This is part two of our four-part series giving tips and advice to first-time homebuyers, in collaboration with American Family Insurance. Check out part one to learn more.

You’ve heard this sad story before: the internet lags out, controllers get chucked across the room, game nights are ruined as plastic rains down. Verizon Fios set out to help with this catastrophe with the creation of an Unbreakable Controller. The trolling is simple: You want ultra low lag? Get Fios. If not, here’s…

Quarantine got a lot better when the food trucks came.

This is part one of our four-part series giving tips and advice to first-time homebuyers, in collaboration with American Family Insurance.

In the above video, sponsored by JPMorgan Chase, leading members of the financial community discuss the effects and impact of COVID-19 on Black-owned small businesses and Black entrepreneurs, and carve out a path forward.

When the pandemic first swept across the United States, small business owners everywhere bore the brunt of financial burden. But Intuit — the global technology platform behind TurboTax, QuickBooks, and Mint — leapt into action to offer assistance at breakneck speed. How did they do it? To find out, we spoke with…

In just a few short weeks, the moon will complete its 12th cycle of the year, finally ending the Year of the Rat (and truly, what a Year of the Rat it was) and ushering in the more auspicious Year of the Ox. Food will be noisily devoured, red envelopes will be doled out, and 2020 will soon be a blip in the annals of…

Despite being in the film industry for nearly 30 years, Regina King is still finding new ways to reinvent herself. She’s already played a variety of character roles, including one that earned her an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress just a few years ago. Not a novice behind the camera, she’s also directed music videos…

The camera fades in from black on a sepia-toned arid desert. Miles of scrubland spread before us as, in the distance, a pickup truck tears down the two-lane blacktop, kicking up a cloud of dust in its wake. As it rumbles through the sun-bleached town on the U.S./Mexico border, the residents shut themselves up tight in…

Self-care is a form of Black Joy, and is crucial to supporting the larger community. After all, how can you lift up others if you yourself are struggling? To this end, we partnered with Target to speak with Black activists and mental health professionals about the things they do to take care of themselves so they have…

Activists play a critical role in society. They raise awareness around social issues and push for solutions that benefit the most vulnerable and marginalized people. Many activists also experience serious mental, emotional, and physical costs from playing this societal role, whether their activism is through art,…

This year has been one of the most tumultuous chapters in recent history for Black Americans, and over the last seven months we’ve seen numerous reminders that systemic racism brings devastating consequences for individuals, families, and communities.

Every artist has their preferred set of pens, pencils, paints, and brushes, but what happens when you take all that away and challenge them to create something awesome using only a stylus? That’s the question we set out to answer with our Stylus Speedrun challenge, where we teamed up with Samsung and tasked comic book…

The first machines to store data used punch cards. Information was recorded by way of holes punched into pieces of paper, and fed into electromechanical machines — including the machines that processed United States Census data electronically for the first time in 1890 — that read the cards’ contents based on where…

For decades before the advent of digital cameras and sophisticated flash storage devices, artists shared their portfolios on 35 mm slides. Submitting artwork for exhibitions, or simply sharing works with audiences far away, meant shipping unwieldy boxes of slides to be viewed through a projector. Museums amassed…

With a world that seems more unpredictable every time you check the headlines, it can be easy to lose a sense of control. Prioritizing self-care is all the more important at a time when the events of the world can take a major toll on your mental and physical health. Gifting season is about to get into full swing, and…