Fifty years ago, in October of 1966, Huey P. Newton and Bobbly Seale had a brilliant idea.
I’ve managed to trace my family ancestry back to an Adalin and Alex Vinson. The records I have state that Adalin…
Based on its century-long mission and in-the-trenches fight for social justice, it certainly goes without saying…
In Moonlight, Barry Jenkins’ (Medicine for Melancholy) semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, we follow the three…
Some students from Texas State University in San Marcos got up and left their lecture hall after their professor,…
The University of Louisville was rocked last year with claims that former players and recruits were lured to the…
Donald Trump turned his ratchet ridiculousness up to epic levels last night during the third and final presidential…
Anfernee Olivo, 19, shot a BB rifle from the rooftop of his Bronx, N.Y., apartment Wednesday afternoon, striking a…
Shortly after a Los Angeles jury found Derrick Rose and two friends not liable for the rape of a California woman,…
The fun way to write about Wednesday night’s presidential debate would be to focus on the ridiculous number of…
Ronda Racha Penrice is a freelance writer living in Atlanta. She is the author of African American History for…
What are black people to do when the dog-whistling becomes a siren song?
Arielle De Souza is impassioned by the ocean.
Johnnetta Betsch Cole, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, turned 80 years old Wednesday,…
An incident at an Overland Park, Kan., Wal-Mart is under investigation after a woman reported that a strange man…
First it was Bill Clinton's accusers; now Donald Trump is bringing President Barack Obama's half brother, Malik, to…
Aaron Vickers was 19 when he was killed in a drive-by shooting in South Stockton, Calif., in 2002. In 2000 he had…
This month marks 25 years since Anita F. Hill sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee and testified about sexual…
Parta Huff, 28, was arrested for attacking a female police officer while allegedly high on PCP. Chicago police say…
Updated Wednesday, Oct. 19, 4:40 p.m. EDT: It took a Los Angeles jury only three hours to determine that Derrick…