Enter Marvin Harris. Armed with a team of dedicated volunteers — and a few good power tools — Harris, 72, is turning things around for Woodland, just as he did forEvergreen Cemetery, another Richmond-area historical Black cemetery that had fallen on hard times. Marvin Harris (L) and volunteer Willie Montague (R), who has family buried at Woodland.Courtesy Woodland Cemetery Volunteers “A lot of those people had laid the groundwork, the foundation, to make it a little bit easier for me to get that education, to get that decent job, to pursue the things that I wanted to do,” he tells PEOPLE of those interred and buried at the cemeteries....

The Black Coalition Against COVID’s (BCAC) latest initiative,Black Doctors Read COVID Tweets, is sharing the latest episode in its video series with PEOPLE exclusively, before it goes out to the public on Thursday. Dr. Reed Tuckson, BCAC cofounder and former commissioner of Public Health DC, shares that he’s “hungry to get my life back” in thePEOPLE exclusive clip ofthe latest of the series, released Thursday. One tweet describes the nation-wide push toward ridding skepticism of theCOVID vaccinein the Black community while pointing out the lack of access to vaccines compared to their white counterparts....

Relatives told KCRAthat two of the bullets struck him in the face. All of the bullets missed major arteries and organs. Gayle is said to be in stable condition, and is on the long road to recovery. Police dispatched to the scene arrived to find that Gayle “had been shot multiple times,” the statement says. “The description of the shooter is a short, white male, in his thirties, wearing a dark-colored jacket and jeans,” reads the statement....

Photo: Patrick Semansky/AP/Shutterstock A Black couple has settled their fair housing lawsuit against a real estate company after they received a home appraisal worth $500,000 less than their White friend, who pretended to be the homeowner three weeks later. But when the home was finally reviewed, they were surprised it was appraised at $995,000 — far below their expected amount. “The Austins believed that their race and the racial demographics of Marin City played a role in the low estimate of value and requested a second appraisal,” a statement from the FHANC explained....

Photo: Dave Benett/WireImage. Inset: Kevin Mazur/GettyTheBlack Eyed Peasare back, albeit a little smaller.After taking a break from the spotlight, the group released a new single titled “Big Love” on Wednesday and announced an album is finally on its way.“It’s all that we are. All that we’re made of,” the Black Eyed Peas captioned an Instagram of the track’s artwork.The single follows behind their other tracks “Ring the Alarm,” “Constant Part 1 and 2” and “Get It,” which all dropped within the last few months....

Photo: AP/Shutterstock (2) A father and son are facing criminal charges after allegedly chasing and shooting at a Black FedEx driver while he was delivering packages in Brookhaven, Miss. The driver, 24-year-old D’Monterrio Gibson, was delivering packages to a home in the city on Jan. 24 at around 7 p.m. when he says the driver of a white pickup truck approached him and started blowing his horn,CNNreported. When Gibson tried leaving after thinking he was in the pickup truck’s way, the driver allegedly tried cutting him off....

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A high school security guard in Madison, Wisconsin, is returning to work after he was fired from his job for asking a student not to call him the n-word. Marlon Anderson revealed on Facebook, Monday, that Madison High School Superintendent Jane Belmore had “rescinded the decision of my termination.” “I’m back!!” he wrote. “I will be placed on paid administrative leave and my transition plan is being negotiated.” “I’m thankful. I’m blessed, and I’m so happy to be going back and doing what I do,” Anderson told Channel 3000....

Emmanuel Acho.Photo: Chris Pavlica Emmanuel Acho is a former Philadelphia Eagles linebacker turned sports analyst and theNew York Timesbestselling author ofUncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, named after hissuccessful YouTube series of the same name. After growing up in a predominantly white neighborhood and later embracing his Black culture in college and the NFL, Acho, 30, felt he could serve as “a bridge” between the Black and white communities. On the heels ofGeorge Floyd’s killing in May 2020, Acho began conducting interviews on race issues in America, with millions of viewers watching each week....

Photo: WayfairSome people are dreaming of a blackChristmas.In 2018, blackChristmas treesare the hot new holidaydecor trendshowing up in people’s homes across America.According to online home decor retailer Wayfair, there has been a 70 percent increase in site searches for these ebony evergreens, since last year (3,900 between Jan. 1 and Nov. 26, 2018, compared to 2,300 in the same period in 2017).Since the start of November, the site has seen nearly 2,000 searches for black Christmas trees, a spokesperson for Wayfair tells PEOPLE....

Stephanie Elam.Photo: Stephanie Elam/CNN A Black journalist is pulling back the curtain on her experience taking part in acoronavirus vaccinetrial in the hopes that it’ll “demystify” the process for those with some hesitation. Stephanie Elam, a CNN correspondent based in Los Angeles, received a shot on Dec. 9 as part of a phase three, randomized COVID-19 vaccine trial at Ark Clinical Research in Long Beach, California on behalf of Janssen Vaccines & Prevention, a unit of Johnson & Johnson....

Photo: Rogelio V Solis/AP/ShutterstockMississippi’s Black lawmakers are making their stance on critical race theory known.Every Black member of the state Senate walked out in protest on Friday as their white colleagues voted onSenate Bill 2113, according to theAssociated Press. The bill, which passed 32-2, would prohibit the teaching of critical race theory in public schools.The two votes against the bill came from white Democrats David Blount and Hob Bryan, while some Republicans declined to vote....