Black Voices

We'll learn how the history of discrimination at pools impacts people of color, and we'll talk to a local group who provides adaptive swim lessons to neurodivergent students.

With the 250th year of the U.S., scholar Eddie Glaude Jr. is thinking about how the country celebrates its founding. His new book is 'America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries.'

SOUL, an acronym for Supporting Opportunity and Uplifting Leadership, was established by the foundation to assist Black-owned businesses in Fairfield County.

The marker located in the famed Granary Burial Ground near Park Street is likely one of the oldest of a free Black person in the U.S., city officials said Thursday.

Fanel Merville says he’s been responding to anxious calls from Haitian immigrants who have a Temporary Protected Status and have lots of questions, as they may face deportation due to their TPS status expiring.

An ongoing project to preserve one of the last structures from a neighborhood, built by and for free Black people in Bridgeport during the 19th century, is getting additional funding for restoration work.

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is known for her pioneering work on critical race theory and intersectionality— both of which are terms she coined. She joins us to discuss her new book, 'Backtalker: An American Memoir,' which explores how the way she grew up taught her the importance of speaking out.

The 'Disrupted' summer movie panel is back! We'll talk about the moment horror films are having today, and we'll have an honest conversation about representation in Hollywood.

David Hopkins, President of the Urban League of Greater Hartford, emphasized that although the Urban League is not known for health initiatives, health is one of the five pillars of the organization.The league believes the pillars which also include, education, employment, housing, and social justice, make a community economically strong.

The concert in Hartford will take place tomorrow evening, Saturday, July 10 at Asylum Hill Congregational Church.Hartford marks the first stop on the Blacknificently Divine tour, which is a collaborative effort between HBCU Arts and Castle of our Skins, defined as a Black art institution, based in Roxbury, Massachusetts.