Supreme Court lets Trump end TPS for 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians, leaving many facing deportation and putting urgent ...

During Black Music Month, a look back at Ray Charles’ 2001 World Series performance of “America the Beautiful” and how his ...

After former President Carter used the cancer drug, Keytruda, cancer patients across the United States had one request for their doctors: "I want what Jimmy Carter had." But not everyone who wanted ...

I do not even pledge allegiance easily. Allegiance to what? To two nations, one Black and one White, under whose God, divisible, with justice for some? We are asked to place hands over hearts and ...

The United Negro College Fund has asked the public for help to pass historic multi-million-dollar legislation that would undergird infrastructure projects at HBCUs across the nation. The IGNITE HBCU ...

There’s a somber scene in a new documentary about Patrick Kelly, where executive producers Jess Manning and Ray Cornelius are at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center, about to dive into ...

There is a dangerous myth embedded in the fight for reproductive justice: that the battle is solely about women, or even solely about those who can become pregnant. It is not. It is equally about men, ...

The party of Andrew Jackson has spent a decade running from him. It should keep the two things he got right. I was 14 the first time I raised my hand to volunteer. I was short for my age. I had a bad ...

As a long-time death penalty abolitionist, I’ve often compared the death penalty in America to a train with no brakes: Once the machinery starts moving, it becomes extraordinarily difficult to stop.

A new report just released by Texas Defender Service shows that 92% of the death sentences sought by the Tarrant County District Attorney’s office since 2012 have been against people of color. When I ...

CHICAGO – At the top of the Obama Presidential Center, in its sunlit Sky Room is where viewers are meant to take it all in. The panoramic views are impressive: surrounding the campus is Chicago’s ...

Democratic U.S. Rep. Christian Menefee defeated U.S. Rep. Al Green to represent a newly drawn congressional district that encompasses both of their current Houston-area districts, effectively ending ...