Public school educators in West Virginia have shut down all 680 public schools in all of the state’s 55 counties for…

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As the families of Echol Cole and Robert Walker struggled to put their loved ones to rest, a different kind of storm…

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Sharecropping in the United States was slavery by another name, and many of the 1968 Memphis, Tenn., sanitation…

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Malcolm Alexander, who was just 21 years old when he was wrongfully convicted of aggravated rape and sentenced to…

Fidel Ángel “Fidelito” Castro Díaz-Balart, 68, the eldest son of Cuban revolutionary and former President Fidel…

A Texas woman was indicted Thursday afternoon in a Guadalupe County, Texas, court on charges of felony mischief…

Robert Walker, 30, and Echol Cole, 36, woke up on Thursday, Feb. 1, 1968, and went to work for the Memphis (Tenn.)…

A Fort Worth, Texas, man has been found guilty of misdemeanor assault by contact for attacking his neighbor’s…

Jackson Public Schools remain closed due to low water pressure—or no water at all—in outdated school…

The cast and crew of the Netflix series Dear White People are honoring the life and legacy of Jordan Edwards with a…

Today, on social media, I’ve seen quite a few white Democrats admonish Republicans not to pretend to honor the Rev.…

In Memphis, Tenn., 1968, 1,300 sanitation workers braved the bitter cold to engage in a revolutionary 65-day action…

In 2016, former Oklahoma City Police Officer and rapist Daniel Holtzclaw was sentenced to 263 years in prison for…

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Updated Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017, 4:55 p.m. EST: Erica Garner is still fighting for her life after suffering brain…

Kwanzaa, like black America, was birthed in struggle and chaos, then bathed in blood. It was born in the freedom…

Daniel Shaver, 26, is dead. Mesa, Ariz., Police Officer Philip “Mitch” Brailsford, 27, a cowboy armed with an…