The history of the Free African Society highlights US democracy’s origins in Black-led mutual aid and community infrastructure.

For many Black communities, democratic life has been built through mutual aid traditions that transformed collective survival into a form of political practice—and these traditions deserve a central place in the story of US democracy.

The Muscogee (Creek) Nation’s refusal to implement its own courts’ rulings on Creek Freedmen citizenship is a live test of whether legal and moral covenants survive political pressure—and every nonprofit, CDFI, and philanthropic leader has a stake in the outcome.

Southern states are feeling the ripple effects of an earlier Supreme Court ruling that’s rewriting 60 years of voting protections.

A new report by ABFE, A Philanthropic Partnership for Black Communities, speaks to how Black leaders in corporate philanthropy continue their work to support Black communities amid a shifting political paradigm.

After being pushed out of her role while on medical leave, one senior nonprofit leader found a determination to name what the sector too often refuses to: that the pipeline isn’t broken, the courage to hire and trust Black women leaders is.

When Cassie Owens Moore couldn’t find herself in books as a child, she became the librarian she never had—building a school library in South Carolina where every student can see themselves on the shelves.

Black-owned bookstores do far more than sell books—they have a long history of educating people and helping to shape minds.

Most pregnancy-related deaths in the United States are preventable. What we are witnessing is not inevitability. It is failure in policy design, implementation, and accountability.

Leaders of a growing network of global funders and advisors share perspectives on philanthropy’s retrenchment and the work underway to build new pathways to resource Black feminist and social justice movements.