2017-07-06 18:45
A lawsuit filed in federal court accuses a Texas firm of preying on would-be homebuyers in Atlanta. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court, includes 17 plaintiffs, who say they were misled b… Read More
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2017-07-06 14:44
African Americans who exercise their Second Amendment right to bear arms find themselves caught between the two irreconcilable narratives of gun rights and racial justice. One storyline just… Read More
2017-07-06 14:30
African-American educators have been at the forefront of education battles through the centuries. Before Brown v. Board, black educators came together to operate schools that were responsive… Read More
2017-07-06 14:27
In 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Greenwood District, known as Black Wall Street, was one of the most prosperous African-American communities in the United States. But on May 31 of that year… Read More
2017-07-05 21:02
At its height, Black land ownership was impressive. At the turn of the 20th century, formerly enslaved Black people and their heirs owned 15 million acres of land, primarily in the South, mo… Read More
2017-07-05 20:53
Who was—who is—Jim Crow? For the record, he is both much less and much more than a man. In 1828, an elderly black stableman, the property of a Kentuckian named Crow, performed an… Read More
2017-07-05 20:40
For Jeremy Arn, being a prosecutor in Milwaukee’s most dangerous neighborhoods means spending more time on the streets than in court. His officemates are police officers in District 5… Read More
2017-07-05 20:24
Time has passed and laws have been changed, yet the deck has remained stacked against many Black people and others minorities in Mississippi, with Black and brown bodies disproportionately f… Read More
2017-07-05 20:19
Movies such as Disney’s Queen of Katwe and stories like Baltimore chess phenom Cahree Myrick are dope images for young black kids who yearn for something constructive and enriching to… Read More
2017-07-05 20:17
In his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in Boston on 27 July 2004, before 9 million viewers, Barack Obama presented himself as the embodiment of racial reconciliation an… Read More
2017-07-05 15:08
For at least 118 years, the descendants of Livinia Blackburn Johnson have lived on the land in Northern Virginia that she and some other freed slaves acquired under an 1866 federal law that… Read More
2017-07-05 14:32
The black valedictorian of a Mississippi high school was forced to share her graduating class’s top honor with a white student who had a lower grade-point average, the woman’s mo… Read More
2017-07-05 14:29
The new Ambassador of the African Union to the United States has a distinctive viewpoint for her task. Dr. Arikana Chihombori Quao has practiced medicine in middle Tennessee for the past 25… Read More
2017-07-05 14:27
Top White House aide Omarosa Manigault has taken an interest in how race affects military justice, receiving a briefing from Pentagon officials on a recent report that found black troops are… Read More
2017-07-05 13:54
Cecelia Hayden Smith, 72, knows exactly how she wants to live out the remainder of her golden years: lounging lazily on the porch of a cozy house tucked along a quiet, treelined street in Wa… Read More
2017-07-05 13:49
Many millennials are not in great financial shape: They have overwhelming student loan debt, they can’t afford to marry, retire, or even move out of their parents’ homes in many… Read More
2017-07-05 13:43
How can historically black colleges and universities provide meaningful employment to struggling students and alumni? Leaders of 24 institutions serving them are answering this question in A… Read More
2017-07-05 13:40
After a week of fellowship, panels, lectures and dinners at the National Newspaper Publishers Association Convention 2017, most guests agree the Black press is alive and needed more than eve… Read More
2017-07-05 13:37
Sen. Kamala Harris is using her newfound progressive stardom to raise money for her Democratic colleagues — and amplifying buzz about the California freshman as a prospect for the part… Read More
2017-07-05 13:35
As the nation approaches Independence Day, many will reflect on Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech, “What to the Slave is the 4th of July” — a text that calls out the U… Read More
2017-06-29 20:05
On this day (June 28) in 1964, Malcolm X said four words that remain seared into our collective memory: “By any means necessary.” He was giving a speech in New York City to annou… Read More
2017-06-29 19:50
Adults tend to view Black girls as young as 5 years old as less innocent and more adult-like than their white peers, according to recent study by the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Ine… Read More
2017-06-29 14:01
There is a general consensus about the current state of American politics: It’s broken. Most point to the hyper-partisanship that lead so many Americans to retreat into their respectiv… Read More
2017-06-29 13:57
In Cullman, Alabama, the strawberry festival is in full swing. A community band is playing a medley of Beatles numbers interspersed with patriotic songs while people browse the stalls or wai… Read More
2017-06-29 13:53
Black folk across the country are well familiar with the notion of “40 acres and a mule.” Referring to the federal government’s promise of reparations in the form of land t… Read More
2017-06-29 13:21
African-American women are more likely to participate in the workforce than any other group of women. They’re making gains in education levels and political activism. But despite this… Read More
2017-06-29 13:09
The Trump administration is quietly dismantling a historic government agency that has policed discrimination among federal contractors since the New Deal. The dramatic move—pushed by l… Read More
2017-06-29 12:56
The Lansing Police Department is investigating graphic footage of an off-duty police officer pinning down an African-American teenager and threatening his life for alleged trespassing. The v… Read More
2017-06-28 18:25
In 1977, Alondra Nelson remembers lying stomach-down, head-in-hands, in front of the television, watching Alex Haley’s miniseries Roots with her parents. “I knew that something s… Read More
2017-06-28 18:20
It was a cold March night when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. turned his pulpit towards health care. Speaking to a packed, mixed-race crowd of physicians and health-care workers in Chicago, Kin… Read More
2017-06-28 18:12
Dateline – USA. Cops Kill Black Men with Impunity. It’s a headline that could appear any city newspaper in America, at almost any point in time. In this case, it’s Detroit… Read More
2017-06-28 18:09
Sitting outside of a Starbucks on the corner of a strip mall in Tuscaloosa late last year, Dr. Remona Peterson described her hometown of Thomaston, Alabama, population 400. “Everybody… Read More
2017-06-28 14:40
The family of a black man killed last year by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city and police on Tuesday, alleging a history of excessive-force i… Read More
2017-06-28 14:35
I’m a grandparent, a military veteran, and a gardener, and I manage mobile devices for a school district in Minnesota. I’m also a black man who owns guns. And Philando Castile, k… Read More
2017-06-28 14:26
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) today announced grant support to 14 places throughout the country where its co-designed, trailblazing Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) fra… Read More
2017-06-27 13:59
The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), which bills itself as the “conscience of the Congress,” is one of the most powerful caucuses in Congress. While many will differ on precisel… Read More
2017-06-27 13:56
Two years ago, the Equal Justice Initiative, based in Montgomery, Ala., shook us out of our collective historical slumber to force us to reckon with a horrific part of our national past. The… Read More
2017-06-27 13:47
A young African-American man is stopped for jaywalking. A white law enforcement officer sternly orders him to the police car, threatens to put him in jail, and tells him he needs to have ide… Read More
2017-06-26 21:07
In the journey to increasing diversity within the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics fields, minorities have come far but they are not there; and only by providing the resourc… Read More
2017-06-26 21:05
The mother of Philando Castile, a black motorist who was shot to death by a police officer last summer in Minnesota, has reached a settlement deal in the city of St. Anthony worth nearly $3… Read More
2017-06-26 20:49
While partisan attempts to substantiate unfounded claims of voter fraud ramp up, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is expanding its work to protect the rights of all el… Read More
2017-06-26 20:47
For 200 consecutive days, advocates including Vel Phillips, the Rev. James Groppi, the NAACP Youth Council and hundreds of African-American residents led a push for open housing that took ma… Read More
2017-06-26 20:41
Dr. Marjorie Innocent – In 1954, Thurgood Marshall and a team of NAACP attorneys argued the landmark civil rights case, Brown v. Board, before the Supreme Court. They demonstrated to t… Read More
2017-06-26 19:42
New York City real estate companies’ attempts to rename a Harlem neighborhood “SoHa” have enraged long-time residents of the historically black enclave, who say the move er… Read More
2017-06-26 19:39
Driving the long, flat roads of Hilton Head Island is hypnotic. One bike-rental shop blends into another; countless villa-style office complexes advertise real-estate agents and banks. Touri… Read More
2017-06-26 19:09
Lucky Rosenbloom’s office at the corner of Dale Street and Interstate 94 in St. Paul is covered in signs — hot pink, bright yellow and blue. The signs promise: Guns. Permit to ca… Read More
2017-06-26 19:07
The Virginia city of Charlottesville was divided this spring over a decision to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. A string of protests followed, including one led by whit… Read More
2017-06-26 19:01
A group of powerful black lawmakers in the U.S. Congress is pushing Uber to hire more people of color, as the ride-hailing company labors to fill a growing list of vacant leadership position… Read More
2017-06-23 18:35
As a nation, we must continue to prioritize high-quality health care for every American, regardless of age, race, or socioeconomic status. This takes on an acute importance when we consider… Read More
2017-06-23 18:33
The conventional portrayal of people who live in Appalachian coal country, a part of the United States that has ballooned in the national consciousness after its support for Donald Trump in… Read More
2017-06-23 18:31
In the three years since fatal police shootings of unarmed black people launched the Black Lives Matter movement, few officers have been charged and none has been convicted by juries in the… Read More
2017-06-23 13:56
Arabs and African Americans appear to have a common struggle against white supremacy. But when former State Rep. Rashida Tlaib participated in a protest demanding accountability for the fata… Read More
2017-06-23 13:54
I was raised to be afraid of Black men. This was communicated in many subtle and not-so-subtle ways, from my sweet-as-pie grandmother whispering the word “Black” like she was afr… Read More
2017-06-23 13:51
The chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus accused Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), who’s faced criticism in the past for racially charged comments, of bias stemming from “white pri… Read More
2017-06-23 13:49
According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and local news outlet Fox2Now, a white St. Louis police officer shot a black off-duty officer from his own force after a car chase ended in a crash o… Read More
2017-06-23 13:45
Warren Germain was 16 years old in 2011 when he was arrested on a burglary charge in Miami-Dade County, Florida. He’d already spent time in a juvenile residential program, so this time… Read More
2017-06-22 20:04
A recent New York Times article, “Targeting Maduro Supporters in Miami,” describes the increasingly vocal body of anti-government Venezuelan “exiles” living in the Un… Read More
2017-06-22 20:00
It’s been more than two years since former Attorney General Eric Holder quit the Obama administration, but the seasoned lawyer is seemingly ready to step back into the political arena… Read More
2017-06-22 19:57
America’s diversity remains on the rise, with all racial and ethnic minorities growing faster than whites from 2015 to 2016, the U.S. Census Bureau says in a new snapshot of the nation… Read More
2017-06-22 19:10
Philando Castile’s shooting death, at the hands of a police officer in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, one year ago, was numbingly similar to a string of other killings of black men by poli… Read More
2017-06-21 13:20
The chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) on Tuesday urged the Trump administration to direct more resources toward investigating hate crimes against minorities. In a letter to th… Read More
2017-06-21 13:17
The parents of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teen fatally shot by a Ferguson, Mo., police officer, settled a wrongful-death lawsuit with the city Tuesday, closing the civil case over a ki… Read More
2017-06-21 13:13
Lori Shepherd is an African-American small-business owner in Oakland, Calif. Shepherd’s story is becoming an increasingly familiar one for urban Blacks. “Due to Uber’s deci… Read More
2017-06-21 13:11
The Congressional Black Caucus is expected to reject an invitation to meet with President Donald Trump, according to four sources close to the group. The Trump administration, sources said… Read More
2017-06-21 13:07
Twice in the span of a week, male senators tried to silence Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), the only woman of color on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Harris, whose father is Jamaican American… Read More
2017-06-20 21:15
It has been well-documented that America’s social safety net is often too weak and full of holes to help those who most need assistance. A new report reveals even more weaknesses with… Read More
2017-06-20 21:07
An alarming event took place in Louisiana 145 years ago. Though the former Confederate state was on the losing side of the Civil War a few years prior, little could have prepared the state&r&hell…Read More
2017-06-20 21:04
In the eighth chapter of his 1995 memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” Barack Obama describes a barbershop haircut he got in Chicago in the 1980s, just days after he moved to the cit… Read More
2017-06-20 21:02
John Mohammad likes to say, “I’ve been around since Jim Crow was a little-itty boy.” Like the majority of African-Americans in their 70s, Mr. Mohammad, a retired math profe… Read More
2017-06-19 14:19
A noose was discovered hanging from a lamp post outside the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., marking the third such incident on the National Mall in recent weeks. The noose was f… Read More
2017-06-19 14:00
Since Rodrigo Duterte became president of the Philippines last year, he’s faced a worldwide backlash for his deadly approach to the drug epidemic in his country. Under his control, the… Read More
2017-06-19 13:57
Whatever else can be said about the acquittal of the police officer who slew Philando Castile, the killing and the verdict have further heightened already-high, experience-based fears in Ame… Read More
2017-06-19 13:48
Prince George’s County, where I live, is one of the most affluent black counties in the country, and I see it every day: The black middle class has deep disdain for the poor. Here in U… Read More
2017-06-19 13:42
The police shooting of a pregnant Black mother of three children has Seattle on edge. Charleena Lyles,30, called police shortly after 10 a.m. on Sunday morning to report a burglary at her ap… Read More
2017-06-19 13:35
Timothy Welbeck remembers being 24 and at work venting to colleagues in his majority white office about how police had pulled him over 22 times in 19 months — a phenomenon known among… Read More
2017-06-19 13:33
Espinola Quinn views her quaint Louisiana town with a mix of love and loathing. It’s the place her parents — a bar owner and a soybean farmer — raised her; the place where… Read More
2017-06-16 20:14
After five days of deliberations, a jury has found a Minnesota police officer not guilty on all counts over his deadly shooting of a black man during a traffic stop last July in Falcon Heigh… Read More
2017-06-16 13:49
Beginning June 16, moviegoers will be able to see the much-anticipated “All Eyez on Me,” the biopic of Tupac Shakur, one of the most iconic and influential musicians of the 20th… Read More
2017-06-16 13:47
LeBron James says “being black in America is tough.” He’s correct. We can debate where LeBron James sits in the pantheon of great basketballers. There should be no debate… Read More
2017-06-16 13:37
As Democrats seek to win the hotly contested House race in this longtime GOP stronghold, one of their toughest and most urgent challenges has become energizing black voters who have gone luk… Read More
2017-06-16 13:36
The discovery of a noose at a condominium complex in Maryland is the most recent in a series of such incidents in the Washington, D.C., area, causing alarm among groups that monitor discrimi… Read More
2017-06-16 13:34
Danyelle Solomon – Recently, Mayor Mitch Landrieu (D) ordered the removal of several Confederate monuments in New Orleans, forever stripping these symbols of suppression against Africa… Read More
2017-06-16 13:25
You can hardly open the Bible without stumbling onto social justice. It reeks of it, from the stories of the Exodus and various prophets, to those of Jesus and his followers proclaiming good… Read More
2017-06-16 13:20
Mimi Crown’s story is like millions of others that have been and are being told across America. At age 21, she was abducted and forced into sexual solicitation. “I had to ask per… Read More
2017-06-16 13:10
Advocates including the ACLU are applauding Gov. John Bel Edwards for acting swiftly and decisively to fulfill a core campaign promise to reform the state’s criminal justice system. To… Read More
2017-06-15 13:54
Long before a Pennsylvania jury began deliberating Bill Cosby’s fate in a sexual assault case, a large swath of the black community had already found him guilty of forgetting where he… Read More
2017-06-15 13:39
Paul Messier, the Pritzker Director of Yale University’s Lens Media Lab, has straightforward advice for young people considering a career in the conservation of cultural heritage: Embr… Read More
2017-06-15 13:36
Like Russian efforts to hack U.S. elections, the North Carolina legislature’s attacks on our state’s democracy have been broad and brazen. The Rev. William J. Barber II, taking h… Read More
2017-06-15 13:33
As a Texas native, I have witnessed many dark days in the fight to ensure voting rights for all people. The 2013 Supreme Court decision, Shelby County v. Holder, overturned portions of the V… Read More
2017-06-15 13:31
During former FBI Director Jim Comey’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee last week, the irony of Black people cheering for Comey didn’t escape African-Americans… Read More
2017-06-15 13:29
In 1974, McDonald’s set its sights on opening a new franchise in Manhattan’s Upper East Side at the corner of Lexington Avenue and 66th Street. This location wouldn’t be an… Read More
2017-06-15 13:27
Leaders from the Southern Baptist Convention were divided over a resolution affirming the denomination’s opposition to white supremacy and the alt-right during their annual meeting in… Read More
2017-06-14 13:32
African-American lawmakers in Alabama urged federal judges on Tuesday to reject newly redrawn legislative districts, saying Republicans are still using racial gerrymandering to maintain whit… Read More
2017-06-14 13:28
The head of the Michigan health department has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in Flint’s lead-tainted water crisis. Nick Lyon is accused of failing to alert the public abou… Read More
2017-06-14 13:23
In all of American history, there has never been an African-American female governor. Rep. Stacey Abrams (D-Ga.) wants to change that. “I am very aware that this would be a history mak… Read More
2017-06-14 13:21
Amid uncertainty about the immediate direction of the NAACP, black civil rights groups will meet with Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday. The meeting will be the firs… Read More
2017-06-14 13:17
Two weeks ago, a black woman driving alone in Princeton, Louisiana, was pulled over for no apparent reason. But she was not shot and killed. Or hauled from her car and body-slammed. Or even… Read More
2017-06-14 13:11
Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III – “But I tell you the New Frontier is here, whether we seek it or not. Beyond that frontier are the uncharted areas of science and space, unsolved problem… Read More
2017-06-14 13:08
Former federal prosecutor Justin Fairfax defeated two other Democrats Tuesday to win the party’s nomination for lieutenant governor, according to unofficial results. Fairfax, 38, who r… Read More
2017-06-14 13:02
Last week, when deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein repeatedly refused to answer a question from Sen. Kamala Harris, both Sens. Richard Burr and John McCain essentially shushed her. As my… Read More
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