Search hashtags, conversations, and community knowledge
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Share stories. Organize knowledge. Build community memory. Shape our narrative together — without waiting for outside algorithms to decide what deserves attention.
Black journalism and Black-created content should not have to fight invisible feeds, buried links, and fragmented conversations just to reach the community it was made for.
Afronary is not just a place to post links. It is a way to make your work discoverable, discussable, searchable, and connected to the larger Black community conversation.
Your work connects to hashtags, conversations, and community interests — not just a one-time social post.
Every link, article, hashtag, and topic can become its own discussion forum and live chat space.
Afronary helps community members find useful stories and creators through shared interests and collective activity.
Important resources, links, and conversations become searchable knowledge instead of disappearing into a feed.
Creators, local journalists, educators, and organizers can be found by the value of what they share.
Track what people are saving, discussing, questioning, and organizing around in real time.
Afronary is for people creating, reporting, explaining, teaching, organizing, and preserving what matters to the African American community.
A place where the stories we save, the voices we trust, the conversations we start, and the resources we share become part of a living, searchable, community-shaped knowledge base.
A simple flow designed to help Black-created work move from link, to discussion, to shared knowledge, to community impact.
Post a story, article, video, podcast, resource, or page that matters.
Connect it to hashtags so people can find it by topic and interest.
Turn links and hashtags into forums, comments, and live chat rooms.
Let votes, comments, saves, and activity surface what the community values.
Build a searchable archive of Black stories, resources, and conversations.
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Mia Thornton, who joined the cast of The Real Housewives of Potomac in Season Six, has posted a cryptic message about 'diving time' while new legal trouble looms months after an Atlanta airport arrest.[26442] Separate reports allege Thornton now faces a felony theft charge over the alleged $11,000 furniture theft after keeping herself in the news following her departure from RHOP.[26429][26442]
A viral video shows a white driver hurling racist insults at a Black man who goes by Abe while refusing to exit his car when confronted, and the encounter ends with the driver hiding in his locked car before being humbled.[26434]
Solé announced on Instagram that her nine-year marriage to Public Enemy's Professor Griff has ended and wrote that they 'walk our separate ways.'[26444]
Colin Kaepernick discussed his civil rights legacy, drawing comparisons to Muhammad Ali as he reflected on NFL protests, Eric Reid and his new memoir.[26432]
Michael Jackson’s red leather jacket from his 'Thriller' music video and his rhinestone-covered glove are heading to auction.[26431]
Shanachie Entertainment's Randall Grass talked about 'A Walk on the Wild Side,' a collaborative album that celebrates Los Angeles' historic jazz scene.[26423]
Jaguar rookie Bryan Thomas Jr.'s day in London ended on the opening kickoff after he was ejected, following an incident in which an undrafted pass rusher and an Eagles starter were tossed for fighting and a Jacksonville return touchdown was nullified.[26443]
Hurricane Simon battered Mexico's Pacific coast as a powerful Category 4 storm, keeping its most destructive winds and heaviest rain focused just offshore as it moved northward toward resort towns and vulnerable communities.[26438]
Flowers Foods Inc. voluntarily pulled Nature’s Own Hawaiian Bread from shelves after discovering a missing label warning, prompting shoppers in five states to check their pantries.[26439]
Advice pieces warned that attraction in relationships often fades slowly, listing seven painful signs that someone may no longer be attractive to their partner and urging couples to notice changes early to address distance before it grows.[26440]
Fans were left uncertain about the statuses of several NFL players heading into Week 5, including Terry McLaurin who is trending toward playing despite a hamstring issue, DJ Moore who returned to practice in a noncontact jersey while questionable with a shoulder injury, and Raiders running back Ashton Jeanty who faces a risky late workout to determine his availability.[26436][26435][26427]
Texans will turn their clocks back on Nov. 1 as daylight saving time ends, while a bill in the U.S. Senate could make that fall time change one of the last if passed.[26430]
Louis Carr of BET told the Living Legends Foundation gala that without Black music BET would not be where it is today as he accepted the Ray Harris Lifetime Achievement Award.[26428]
An essayist described returning to New York, where they lived for nearly a decade, and feeling special being back for a cooking class while pregnant, thanking the community and reflecting on the experience.[26433]
A writer noted the exhaustion and emotional strain of moving into a new place, describing help from Marcus who flew back to Houston after assisting with heavy tasks and the difficulty of saying goodbye at dawn after an intense ten-day period.[26421]
Dr. Monique Gary, a breast surgical oncologist and Chief Medical Officer of Bexa, said women in 2026 should have screening options between waiting for symptoms and getting a mammogram and advocated for more choices to spot breast cancer early.[26426]
President Trump's plan to overhaul the Kennedy Center has faced backlash as artists withdrew and donors and local crowds pulled back, and a judge dealt a setback to his takeover effort.[26420]
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A straight forward algorithm determines what comes to the top
The algorithm for what you see is the same for all users and entries.
The math that positions the articles is as follows:
(likes - dislikes) - (TIMESTAMPDIFF(MINUTE, s.date_added, NOW()) / 60) + number_of_distinct_comment_users
(likes - dislikes)
This captures how positively the community feels about the story:
This is the baseline of how users rate the content.
- (TIMESTAMPDIFF(MINUTE, s.date_added, NOW()) / 60)
This portion subtracts points as the story gets older:
Purpose: This keeps newer stories competitive. Older stories gradually drop unless they are constantly receiving likes, dislikes, or comments.
+ number_of_distinct_comment_users
This adds points based on how many unique people have commented on the story:
It rewards breadth of engagement, not spam or one person talking a lot.
Purpose: This helps surface stories that spark real discussion.
Afronary aims to reflect the pulse of the community and not the bias of its developers.
A system of hash tags can be used to categorize and find local resources. eg Search hashtags for #soulfood #southchicago
A great deal of work remains to be done. But I think this is a pretty good start.
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Hashtag system makes it easy to explore everything from cultural insights to local services — like #soulfood in #southchicago.
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Large Screen devices give you access to voting, comments,add links and chat.