State bill addressing racial disparities stemming from slavery on, is the first passed addressing reparations for California’s African Americans.
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Record numbers of interested bankers for Greenwood digital bank shows there is big business in meeting long-time, neglected banking needs of communities
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Record numbers show food pantries cause major concern of what’s to come in the winter months as more families deal with food
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Voting super-sites for early voting record high voter turnout and long hours.
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Thirteen members or associates of armed, anti-government white nationalist gangs were arrested on Thursday in a plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor, Gretchen
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Rising Covid-19 infection numbers in several NYC boroughs force city to press the reset button for schools. Businesses and churches might follow.
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Initiative shines light on shuttering salons and beauty shops.
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PayPal announced their first round of nonprofits to receive grants to assist in their recovery from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Memorial Day, President’s Day and Black history month are all holidays where people take time out to honor and celebrate their ancestors.
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At the height of another police shooting of an African American man, this time in Kenosha, Wisconsin, several franchises in the pro-ball
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Accomplished actor who played historical African American and Afrofurisitc character in Black Panther blockbuster, succumbs to colon cancer
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Jacob Blake III is paralyzed from the waist down after a Kenosha, Wisconsin officer fired seven rounds into his body on Sunday.
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Another round of interrogations for Postmaster General Louis Dejoy in emergency hearings regarding a downgrade of USPS operations.
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Unprecedented weather draws to storms hitting US coast simultaneously
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Efforts to keep homeownership local, Brick City goes digital.
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Pandemic be damned. City of Newark moves forward to restore a deteriorating neighborhood with a history of high rate foreclosures and many
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When doctors diagnosed John Durden with Covid-19, he didn’t know if he would make it. With the help of his children, the
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Mail operations drastically weakened under new USPS postmaster general tenure.
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After much of anticipation, a Biden-Harris ticket takes on Trump-Pence in November.
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With an in-person start date of September 10, New York school districts have until Friday, August 21, to submit plans to the
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Trump’s executive orders to deal with the absence of a second stimulus package comes with strings attached.
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Several senators propose a bill to provide healthcare for all with money made by the 1 percent during the Covid-19 crisis.
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Schools in Mississippi and Georgia issue quarantines after students and faculty tested positive for Covid-19 less than two weeks into the school
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Almost six years ago, Cori Bush stood at the front lines of Ferguson protests over the police shooting death of Michael Brown.
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A massive mushroom cloud formed after a deafening blast flattened Beirut’s port and blew out windows of apartment buildings miles away. Tonight,
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Last week’s final payment for the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), showed New Jersey residents received more than a half-billion-dollars.
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With less than a week left before the US Senate’s August recess, Democrats say negotiations with Republicans on stimulus proposals are moving
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After a weeks-long stay in an Atlanta-area hospital following a Covid-19 diagnosis, former Republican presidential candidate and corporate food executive, Herman Cain
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Two years after her claims that Netflix was biased in how they handled negotiations, comedian Mo’Nique scores a small victory in her
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Chef Cassandra wanted to evoke change, and do it for a worthy cause: Ark Republic. So she joined the #BakersAgainstRacism campaign to
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A day after Rep. Ocasio-Cortez responds to a gender epithet, she introduces a bill requiring Feds to identify themselves.
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13 days before turning 96-years-old, Rev. C.T. Vivian died in his Atlanta home of natural causes.
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Diving into another week of current affairs, our Lisa Durden weekly check in covers independence day celebrations, the EU ban on US
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Faulty Covid-19 testing equipment and other merchandise flood global underground markets.
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Cities and organizations work to get more citizens and US residents counted in the 2020 Census in another spike of Covid-19.
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Been a minute, but we’re back with the jump off. The Ark Republic news jump off that is, where we give you
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Cattle rancher and cowboy, Corey Lea made a commitment to continue to bring economic justice and US homegrown food to our plates.
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A global pandemic exacerbates economic fissures caused by generations of racialized inequities.
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While votes are being counted in Kentucky, Rep. Charles Booker says his movement of essential workers already won. But the ultimate check
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Primaries in four districts that are Democratic strongholds see a possible pending shift in the political voice
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Recent hangings draw concern in the height of anti-Black violence protests.
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The final discussion in Ark Republic’s roundtable on protests around George Floyd’s death and the series of police killings before, centers guests’
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Part two of a three-part roundtable, Ark Republic gives voice to protesters participating in demonstrations that emerged after the George Floyd police
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Newark mayor denounces hate crimes and police brutality, proposes to outlaw white supremacist groups
In response to growing Black Lives Matter protests, Baraka puts forth edict against white nationalism and racism. Can it stop those issues
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With the George Floyd protests, there’s been a call to defund the police. Before, there’s been a movement to abolish prisons.
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Safe virtual workplaces are essential for black workers, #blackwfh calls on corporate leaders to re-imagine anti-discrimination policies for remote work in the
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Like millions of Americans, Ronnell Perry was thrust into the world of working from home full-time during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Ark Republic’s weekly check in with Lisa Durden discusses growing US protests, and those who criticize when rebellions result in destruction of
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In a three-part roundtable, Ark Republic gives voice to those who are participating in demonstrations that emerged after the George Floyd police
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Sean Palmer, the director of the Upperman African American Cultural Center at UNC Wilmington talks about the conditions that led up to
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