Unveiling Black Springfield

The Illinois Legislative Black Caucus Foundation has extended the deadline for accepting applications for the 2026 ILBCF scholarship to June 12! Students who are enrolled at a public two- or four-year college or university in Illinois are eligible and encouraged to apply. Apply here today: https://shorturl.at/w7DT4

Kerry James Marshall’s America
He paints Black life at the scale of history painting—insisting, canvas by canvas, that the museum’s “we” finally includes everyone.

Marshall’s career is not only an artistic achievement. It is a civic one. He has made it harder—visually, institutionally, morally—for American culture to pretend that Black life is secondary to the grand narrative. He has built a body of work that functions like an alternative archive: not an archive of documents, but an archive of images powerful enough to compete with the images that shaped the old story.

Read the full story at https://www.kolumnmagazine.com/2026/01/25/kerry-james-marshalls-america/

WORLD PREMIERE: Tomorrow, Love, Joy & Power: Tools for Liberation airs nationwide in a special simulcast across Black-owned platforms, including The Joy Reid Show and Roland Martin Unfiltered. You don’t want to miss!

Coming off the momentum of Selma and Montgomery, where thousands gathered to defend our voices and our votes. This moment is about more than reflection. It’s about action.

Because while attacks on Black political power continue, so does the work. And this film shows exactly what that looks like. For more information, visit bvmdoc.com

This is how we turn our voices into power.

The Black Census Project is the largest survey of Black people in the United States, transforming lived experiences into actionable data that shapes policy and fuels organizing nationwide.

Rooted in Black Dreams, Built by Black Power, this is our moment to come together and define what we need to thrive.

Help us reach 300,000 responses and build the future we deserve. Take the Black Census: https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/8759608/BFL

This victory, which will permanently block this law, helps ensure that voters across New Hampshire will not have unnecessary and restrictive barriers when trying to access the voting booth.