African Americans

Black and Jewish youth build bridges through basketball, on the court and beyond

“We are creating transformative spaces where young people learn empathy, trust, and cooperation, before prejudice ever takes root.”

The Nike basketball camp at the JCC of Greater Baltimore.
Students from 14 colleges came together through the 2026 Two Museums Program

Two museums, one mission: Preparing young leaders to confront antisemitism and racism

FELICE FRIEDSON on 'Facing the Middle East' Episode 21

‘Facing the Middle East’ examines Iran’s repression, black-Jewish solidarity, regional war risks

African-American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr (1929 - 1968, centre) among other marchers is Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (far right)

United against hate: Why Black and Jewish communities in America must stand together


Reform Jewish movement votes to support reparations for African-Americans

“Combating hate is the most urgent call of our time,” Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism said.

abbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, speaks at the group's biennial in Chicago about combating racism, Dec. 12, 2019

Actress Tiffany Haddish celebrates her Judaism in lavish ‘Black Mitzvah’

The daughter of an Eritrean Jew, Haddish found out relatively late in life that she was Jewish but has embraced these Jewish roots in recent years.

Rabbi Susan Silverman officiates Tiffany Haddish's bat mitzvah December 3, 2019

Congressman Elijah Cummings' legacy carries on in Israel

“I want to send a message that we cannot as African-Americans progress without coalitions, and our greatest coalition partner has been the Jewish people in America,” cummings told WBALTV 11 in May.

FILE PHOTO: House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) addresses a National Press Club luncheon on his "committee's investigations into President Donald Trump and his administration," in Washington, U.S., August 7, 2019

Book review: Thinking of suburbs as radical

Amanda Kolson Hurley says suburbs were sites of experimentation – and could be again

Milwaukee suburbs.

New whiskey honors slave who taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey

Nathan Green may have helped perfect the Lincoln County Process.

Nearest Green's son, George Green, seated next to Jack Daniel.

‘F*** Jews,’ white Alabama teens say in video that slurs black people, too

A video showing white high school students in Alabama using racist slurs about blacks and Jews and talking about the Holocaust was posted on social media.

Alabama anstisemitic video

Bald black woman? Israeli scientists make the leap towards a cure

One in 20 black females suffers from hair-loss, after seven years of research, Israeli scientists find the gene responsible for it.

naomi campbell

Trump marks National African-American History Month

In his proclamation, US President Donald Trump mentions noted African-Americans like Aretha Franklin and Annie Turnbo Malone.

The marquee on the Fox Theater shows the word "Respect' in memory of singer Aretha Franklin in downtown Detroit, Michigan, U.S. August 16, 2018

MLK honored by American Zionist Movement

"I solemly pledge to do my utmost to uphold the fair name of the Jews- because bigotry in any form is an affront to us all" - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

DR. MARTIN Luther King, Jr. addresses the crowd from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, during the March on Washington on August 28, 1963.

Saying 'I've been used,' Kanye West distances himself from politics

"My eyes are now wide open and now realize I’ve been used to spread messages I don’t believe in," West said.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West