3 Takeaways From The Third Night Of The Republican National Convention
The third night of the Republican National Convention, like every night of the convention, has featured Black Americans — notably…
GOP Plan To Beat Biden By Pushing Kanye West Could Backfire On Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — Kanye West’s unlikely White House bid is getting help qualifying for presidential ballots in key states from…
Police facing scrutiny in Elijah McClain case get new chief
DENVER — The interim chief of a suburban Denver police department has become the first woman to permanently lead the…
US agency vows steps to address COVID-19 inequalities
NEW YORK — If Black, Hispanic and Native Americans are hospitalized and killed by the coronavirus at far higher rates…
Trump Mocked For Claiming He’s Done More For Black Americans Than Lincoln
Trump ended today’s presser thusly: “I’ve done more for black Americans than anybody, with the possible exception of Abraham Lincoln.”…
Ex-student pleads to swatting conspiracy with neo-Nazi
A former Old Dominion University student who targeted his school with a fake bomb threat so he could skip class…
Lee descendant urges official removal of Confederate statues
Democratic lawmakers and others are urging official removal of Confederate monuments at the center of a politically fraught national debate…
Asheville City Council Sets Stage For Reparations To Black Residents
City council members in Asheville, North Carolina, unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday that paves the way for reparations to the…
Police can’t access LAPD gang database records after scandal
The California attorney general made it impossible for law enforcement agencies to access entries that Los Angeles police made in…
Mississippi could drop Jim Crow-era statewide voting process
Mississippi just ditched its Confederate-themed state flag By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press July 4, 2020, 12:10 PM 4 min…
Virginia man charged in connection with cross burning
A Virginia man was charged in federal court this week in connection with the burning of a cross on the…
FBI investigates noose in Minnesota firefighter’s locker
The FBI is investigating after a piece of rope resembling a noose was found in a Black firefighter’s locker in…
Rare 1920s Footage: All-Black Towns Living the American Dream | National Geographic
By the 1920s, Oklahoma was home to some 50 African-American towns, in addition to a large and prosperous black community…
Celebrate Juneteenth With HuffPost And Verizon Media
Amid a sustained wave of protests and conversations around police violence, white supremacy and anti-racism, Juneteenth ― the day celebrating…
Virginia governor to propose Juneteenth as state holiday
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced Tuesday that he’ll propose making Juneteenth an official holiday in a state that was once…
GOP State Senator Asks If Black People Get Coronavirus From Lax Handwashing
Ohio state Sen. Steve Huffman (R) sparked anger this week as he pondered why “the colored population” is more susceptible…
America Has Tried And Failed To Explain Its Racism To The World
Thousands of people around the world are sending a dual message to Americans as they protest the death of George…
Virginia city removes 176-year-old slave auction block
A 176-year-old slave auction block has been removed from a Virginia city’s downtown June 5, 2020, 3:09 PM 2 min…
Texas State investigates racial abuse claims against coach
Texas State has ordered an investigation into a former player’s allegations of racist remarks by basketball coach Danny Kaspar June…
West Virginia governor defends himself after Obama comment
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice is continuing to defend himself after making comments about not wanting former President Barack Obama…
Poll: Pandemic Hitting Black And Hispanic Americans Hardest Financially
DETROIT (AP) — People of color have not only been hit harder by the deadly coronavirus than have Americans overall,…
N. Carolina principal sorry for racial remark during meeting
A school principal in North Carolina apologized after making a reference to “colored folks” during a staff meeting May 5,…
Black Pastors Urge Trump To Focus On Virus’s Heavy Impact On Minorities
A group of Black pastors is calling on President Donald Trump’s administration to address the racial and economic inequality that…
Gov. Whitmer Creates Coronavirus Task Force To Address Effect On Black Americans
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) signed an executive order on Monday creating an advisory task force meant to help address…
Senators Fear Black Americans In Face Masks Will Be Exposed To Racial Bias
NEW YORK (AP) — Democratic lawmakers want police departments to be vigilant about any racially biased policing during the coronavirus…
Black People Are Dying Of COVID-19 At Alarming Rates. Here’s Why.
DETROIT — Greg Bowens stopped counting when seven people he knew well had died of COVID-19. New names kept coming…
Civil rights leader, MLK aide Joseph Lowery dies at 98
ATLANTA — The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, a veteran civil rights leader who helped the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.…
Professor suspended for calling police on black student
An Indiana university says a white professor accused of discrimination after he called university police to his classroom because a…
Van Jones Has A Stark Warning For Democrats Regarding Black Voters
Van Jones is warning Democrats it’s time for the party to get its act together, especially with Black voters or…
New Philadelphia police chief starts amid surge in homicides
Philadelphia’s new police commissioner starts work Monday amid a surge in homicides so far this year and calls for action…
Texas lawmakers are drafting a hair discrimination bill
The Texas Legislative Black Caucus announced it’s working on a bill that would ban discrimination based on hair textures and…
School: Dolls of black figures on tree-like racks removed
Michigan State University officials say its performing arts center has removed a gift shop display featuring dolls depicting prominent black…
Navy To Name Aircraft Carrier For Pearl Harbor Hero Doris Miller
HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Navy is expected to honor a World War II hero when a new aircraft carrier…
Tennessee inmates ask court to stop execution scheduling
Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmates argue that mental issues, poor legal representation, newly surfaced evidence, and racism in the…
Maryland police sentenced for assault of handcuffed suspect
A white Maryland police officer has been sentenced to spend six months in jail after he was convicted of assault…
Central Park Will Get Its First Statue Honoring Women
Central Park has 23 statues of men who left their mark in history but not a single one honoring the…
Black Americans Are More Doubtful About Participating In The Census, Survey Finds
Black Americans are roughly twice as likely as their white counterparts to express doubts about participating in the 2020 census,…
Fort Worth police shooting shatters community trust
Yashunn Hale isn’t sure he would call the police to report a crime. Not since an officer killed Hale’s neighbor…
Will ‘Harriet’ Change The Conversation About Cynthia Erivo?
In “Harriet,” Kasi Lemmons’ biopic about Harriet Tubman, there’s a scene where our heroine, portrayed by Cynthia Erivo, steps on…
Official: Spitting incident at museum not racially motivated
A Connecticut school official says she doesn’t believe race was a factor when a white student spat on a black…
Winfrey shocks fundraisers with $1M donation for students
Oprah Winfrey shocked attendees at a North Carolina fundraiser by announcing a donation of more than $1 million toward the…
Book tries to show how US democracy hurt Native Americans
A new book by a noted historian attempts to show how expanding American democracy hurt Native Americans in the early…
Indiana lawmaker under fire for posting noose picture
An Indiana lawmaker who posted nooses under a Facebook story about a black man pleading guilty to rape is drawing…
Teen’s racist videos show SC needs hate crime law: Sheriff
A South Carolina sheriff said Thursday that the state needs a hate crime law after his deputies couldn’t initially charge…
Family’s lawyer faults 2020 presidential candidate on police oversight
A lawyer for the family of a black man fatally shot by a white police officer in the Indiana city…
Activists allege racism in treatment of St. Louis prosecutor
Some black activists in St. Louis say there’s an unfair racial component to criticism of St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim…
The First Black American Catholic Priest Is One Step Closer To Becoming A Saint
On a Sunday afternoon in February 1880, a young black Catholic left his family and friends behind in Quincy, Illinois,…
Taraji P. Henson Opens Up About Mental Health At Congressional Hearing
Award-winning actress Taraji P. Henson spoke candidly about mental health issues affecting youth in the African American community at a…
Yale University To Have Its First Black Student Body President In Its History
Yale University student Kahlil Greene is set to become the university’s first black student body president. Greene, who will begin…
Georgia’s first black Supreme Court justice to step down
A jurist who became the first African American to serve on the Georgia Supreme Court plans to step down after…
Kamala Harris Wants To Study Reparations But Dodged Saying If She Supports Payouts
During a CNN town hall on Monday night, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) reiterated that she supports a congressional effort to…
Yankees, Flyers Drop Kate Smith’s ‘God Bless America’ After Hearing Singer’s Racist Lyrics
The New York Yankees and Philadelphia Flyers have decided to stop playing Kate Smith’s 1939 recording of “God Bless America”…
White supremacist gets life for running down black man
A white supremacist who ran down and killed a young black man in Oregon two years ago was sentenced Tuesday…
Beto O’Rourke Fine-Tunes Pitch To Black Voters In South Carolina
CHARLESTON, S.C. ― “Why should black people vote for you?” Patricia Williams Lessane, an associate dean at the College of…
America’s Oldest HBCU Is Fighting For Survival
Nestled 45 minutes outside Philadelphia, the Cheyney University campus looks like any number of small colleges that dot the rural…
Tucker Carlson Guest Says African Americans ‘Need To Move On’ From Slavery
A guest on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show on Thursday night said African Americans “need to move on” from slavery.…
Hall of Famer, pioneering manager Frank Robinson dies at 83
Hall of Famer Frank Robinson, the 1st black manager in Major League Baseball and the only player to win the…
Gun Violence Has Cut More Than 4 Years Off The Life Expectancy Of Black Americans: Study
Gun violence has shortened the life expectancy of Americans by nearly 2.5 years, with shootings driving down the average lifespan…
LeBron: African-American women ‘are most powerful women in the world’
(5 Sep 2018) LeBron: African-American women ‘are most powerful women in the world’ Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork…