by Stacy M. Brown --
“I can’t breathe…”
The senseless killing of unarmed Black men, Black women, Black boys, and Black girls has become so routine that the entire nation now knows the meaning of those three words – and...
“This virus will have dire consequences on so many, but specifically African Americans, which suffer from higher rates of chronic illness.”
That was part of the message of Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, conveyed Sunday evening during...
by Margie Mason and Robin McDowell --
More than 150 years ago, a prison complex known as the Lone Rock stockade operated at one of the biggest coal mines in Tennessee.
It was powered largely by African American men who had been...
Terry Crews took to Twitter Tuesday to say that the whole Harvey Weinstein situation is giving him post-traumatic stress disorder. You may be asking yourself why, but in a series of 16 tweets, Crews explains that women are not...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is convening for its 110th annua convention this week in Detroit, Mich. With a steady stream of incendiary remarks coming out of the White House, and two rafts full of...
By JULIET LINDERMAN and HOPE YEN, Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration took steps Tuesday to roll back an Obama-era rule intended to ensure that communities confront and address racial segregation in housing, saying local governments have been overburdened...
Say her name.
Breonna Taylor’s family may finally get justice after the Department of Justice charged four current and former police officers in Louisville, Kentucky, who were involved in the fatal March 2020 raid on her apartment.
The DOJ accused the...
by Darlene Superville --
WASHINGTON – Former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, returned to the White House this past Wednesday, unveiling official portraits with a modern vibe in an event that set humor and nostalgia over his presidency...
by Stacy M. Brown --
After 294 days in Russian custody, including the past several weeks in a dreaded and dangerous penal colony, WNBA star Brittney Griner is free.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris met with Griner’s...
by Russ Bynum --
SAVANNAH, Ga. – The white man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery after chasing the 25-year-old Black man in a Georgia neighborhood was sentenced Monday to life in prison for committing a federal hate crime.
Travis McMichael was...