Amara La Negra shares her journey of embracing her natural hair and her thoughts on the policing of Black women's hair.

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The Atlanta Voice won multiple awards at the annual National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) Messenger Awards.

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“She was a solid choir member until February, when I would program this song, ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing,’ and she saw it as a divisive song,” Duff, who is Black, told the panelists.

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She was photographed in Mobile in 2024. MOBILE, Ala. — Shalela Dowdy is one of the Black voters who successfully sued Alabama to have a bigger voice in Congress.

(RNS) — 'I think most of the major Black denominations, in terms of its membership, is divided,' said Bishop Reginald Jackson, leader of mid-Atlantic African Methodist Episcopal churches.

A version of this article appears in print on March 3, 2025, Section A, Page 20 of the New York edition with the headline: Overlooked No More: Maria W. Stewart, Trailblazing Voice for Black Women.