Happy New Year! What a year 2025 was. It was a year that was worse for Black people than 2020, and that is saying a lot.

*ABC has begun to develop Baratunde Thurston’s “How to Be Black,” an animated project based on Thurston’s best-selling memoir of the same name. The project will be written, and executive produced by ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about Black and neurodivergent identity in the workplace. Being Black in the workplace is far from easy. From dealing with ...

This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. When the unemployment rate for African American women hit nearly 7 percent in August, alarms went off ...

From the comedian and digital director of The Onion, a satirical self-help book for anyone who has a black friend, wants to be the next black... Baratunde Thurston Explains 'How To Be Black' It's no ...

A book titled How to Be Black throws down a delicious gauntlet. It tells you the author is deeply concerned with blackness but is going to be irreverent about our sacred identity and just might give ...