Before institutions can protect people, they must first be able to see what is happening to them. Kimberlé Crenshaw gave the world a language for examining what happens when the systems designed to address discrimination leave Black women at the intersection invisible. There is a form of erasure that doesn’t require removing someone’s name from a record. It doesn’t require banning a book, closing an institution, or silencing a voice. Sometimes, erasure happens through definition. It happens
August 27, 2026
Fifteen Years After Frederick Jermaine Carter Was Found Hanging, A New Autopsy Changes The Question From Suicide to Homicide
An independent medical examiner concluded that the 26-year-old Black man was beaten, strangled and then hanged from an oak tree to conceal a homicide. Now JULIAN is pushing to reopen the Mississippi case. On December 3, 2010, 26-year-old Frederick Jermaine Carter was found hanging from an oak tree near Greenwood, Mississippi. The initial explanation was suicide. It was a conclusion Carter’s family never accepted. From the beginning, questions surrounded the death. Contemporary reporting shows that
For too long, conversations about health have been separated from the communities they are engineered to serve. Doctors meet behind closed doors in conference rooms. Mental health professionals attend isolated professional trainings. Families are left to navigate fragmented systems on their own. Young people search for healthcare career pathways without knowing who to ask. Meanwhile, the communities experiencing the sharpest structural disparities are expected to survive all of those systems independently. On September 26, 2026, the
August 24, 2026
The Cost of Being a Black Woman in America Is More Than a Pay Gap: Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman Is Measuring the Double Tax
There are economists who study numbers, and then there are economists who ask what the numbers are hiding. Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman has built her work around that distinction. A doctoral candidate at Harvard Kennedy School studying public policy and economics, Opoku-Agyeman’s work sits at the intersection of economic inequality, workplace equity, the structural conditions that determine who gets to participate, and who gets left behind. Her credentials are extensive. She is a fellow of the
August 21, 2026
From Fortune 500 Executive To HBCU President: Dr. Donald W. Comer Came Home To Build What Black Institutions Need To Survive
Dr. Donald W. Comer spent 35 years building inside some of America’s most powerful institutions. Now, he is using that experience to steward Lane College’s 144-year legacy into its future.He learned what it takes to lead large organizations, maintain stability, make consequential decisions, and build structures designed to endure beyond the person sitting at the top. He also spent years serving on the boards of fellow Historically Black Colleges and Universities, LeMoyne-Owen College and Stillman
August 19, 2026
Black Women Are Losing Their Place in America’s Workforce. This Is Not a Statistic. This Is a System.
700,000 Black Women Are Out of Work in America. This is not a statistic. This is a system. Every month, America receives a jobs report. We are told how many jobs were added, whether unemployment went up or down, and then we are told whether the economy is strong, but what happens when the unemployment number falls because people stopped being counted? That is the question we should be asking about Black women right now.
August 13, 2026
IMPACT Magazine Launches The Inaugural Black Women Defining Television Beauty Lounge Experience During Daytime Emmy Week
Tab & Chance Announced as the First Featured Founding Brand Partner for the Annual Celebration Honoring Black Women Shaping Television BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — IMPACT Magazine today announced the launch of the inaugural Black Women Defining Television Beauty Lounge Experience, an invitation-only gathering celebrating the Black women shaping the future of television while introducing influential industry leaders to Black-owned beauty, fashion, wellness, and lifestyle brands. The inaugural experience will take place on October 28, 2026, at the Beverly Wilshire, A