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Jaylen Smith, elected to lead Earle, Arkansas, at age 18 in 2022, is the youngest mayor in the country.

2023 BNV Black Pearls

BNV BLACK PEARLS: Young Black mayors driving down crime, balancing budgets, running cities

December 29, 2023
By Melanie Eversley
NABJ Black News & Views

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Maison Creole, the first Black history museum in Lafayette, Louisiana, has been instrumental in making sure the community’s oral history is shared with StoryCorps, the national nonprofit that collects Americans’ accounts of life. Photo credit: Quinn Foster, NABJ Black News & Views

Arts & culture

As 2023 comes to a close, Louisiana community shares oral histories with national project

December 21, 2023
By Quinn Foster
NABJ Black News & Views

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Damara Lynn Greene and longtime friend Andre Braugher at Ashford and Simpson's Sugar Bar in New York City. Braugher died Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, at the age of 61. Photo credit: Damara Lynn Greene

Arts & culture

‘He believed in excellence’: A friend remembers actor Andre Braugher

December 13, 2023
By Damara Lynn Greene
For NABJ Black News & Views

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Darryl George, a 17-year-old high school junior in Mont Belvieu, Texas, walks to Barbers Hill High School after serving a 5-day in-school suspension for not cutting his hair on Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. Photo credit: Michael Wyke, The Associated Press

National

Texas high school sends Black student back to in-school suspension over his locs

December 7, 2023
By Cheyanne Mumphrey
The Associated Press

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Keith Ellison, attorney general of Minnesota, answers a question during an interview at the State Attorneys General Association meetings , Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023, in Boston. In exclusive sit-down interviews with The Associated Press, several Black Democrat attorneys general discussed the role race and politics plays in their jobs. Photo credit: Charles Krupa, The Associated Press

Politics

5 takeaways from Black attorneys general interviews about race, justice and politics

December 4, 2023
By Matt Brown
The Associated Press

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SAG-AFTRA member Sheryl Lee Ralph speaks during a rally outside Paramount Pictures Studio on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023, in Los Angeles. Photo credit: Richard Shotwell, Invision/The Associated Press

Arts & culture

Black actors, traditionally underpaid, celebrate end to SAG-AFTRA strike

November 9, 2023
By NABJ Black News & Views & The Associated Press

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