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According to nbcnews.com, the United States House of Representatives passed the CROWN Act, which would ban hair-related discrimination on Friday. Measure H.R. 2116 passed 235-189 in a vote…

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Today’s GBN Daily Drop podcast is a bonus episode about rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe who was born #OnThisDay in 1915,…

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Today’s GBN’s Daily Drop podcast features Jackie “Moms” Mabley, the first woman comedian in the U.S. to have a long-lasting and successful career.…

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Today’s GBN Daily Drop podcast is all about… GBN! Good Black News was founded 12 years ago today, and I celebrate it and…

[Photo via powherful.org] by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Today, on St. Patrick’s Day, GBN Daily Drop podcast features journalist, producer, activist and philanthropist Soledad O’Brien, who in 2016 explored…

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Today’s GBN Daily Drop podcast is about Freedom’s Journal, the first Black-owned newspaper founded in 1827 #onthisday by Samuel E. Cornish and John B.…

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Today’s GBN Daily Drop podcast is about Misty Copeland, the first African American principal dancer in the elite American Ballet Theatre‘s 75-year history, based on…

by Marlon West (FB: marlon.west1 Twitter: @marlonw IG: stlmarlonwest Spotify: marlonwest) Mickey Guyton’s 2020 song “Black Like Me,” released amid the national racial justice protests, was nominated…

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Today’s GBN Daily Drop podcast is about Dr. Saint Elmo Brady, the first African American person in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in…

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Today’s GBN Daily Drop podcast is a bonus episode for Sunday, March 13 and based on the “A Year of Good Black News”…