Chokwe Antar Lumumba, Jackson, Miss.’s revolutionary mayor, will not be sharing the stage with President Donald…

A Texas grand jury has returned a true bill indictment against now former Mesquite, Texas, Police Officer Derick…

When tens of thousands of people converge on statehouses across the nation and the U.S. Capitol in May 2018, it will…

Dec. 4, 1969—48 years ago today—police officers from the Cook County, Ill., State Attorney’s Office, in collusion…

A Mississippi grand jury on Wednesday indicted Byron McBride, 19, on charges of capital murder and possession of a…

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Nina Simone once said that “an artist’s duty is to reflect the times.”

Updated Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017, 2:19 a.m. EST: On Saturday the Wisconsin Department of Justice released the initial…

Donna Brazile, a veteran Democratic strategist and former interim chair of the Democratic National Committee, has…

Chrisette Michele is one of the latest examples of how some people in the black community—particularly on social…

Eddie Curlin, an African-American former student at Eastern Michigan University, was arraigned Monday morning in…

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From the days of COINTELPRO—the targeting of black human rights leaders and sowing dissent within the ranks of black…

An elementary school gym teacher at Rochester Exploration Elementary Charter School for Science & Technology in…

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The Democratic Party has experienced an 11 percent drop in support from black women, while “the percentage of black…

In a press conference during which Donald Trump shed any pretense of being anything other than a white supremacist…

Gerry Monroe, community activist and executive director of United Urban Alumni Association, caused a stir at…

Rashaun A. Barnes, 39, was standing on the sidewalk in front of a corner store in Grand Prairie, Texas, on the…

For working-class and poor black and brown communities in the United States of America, the concept of…