INSIDER
A U.S. Department of Justice investigation found that the Memphis Police Department committed a host of civil rights violations, including using excessive force, making illegal traffic stops and disproportionately targeting Black people in the majority Black city.
The Mississippi Senate discriminated against a Black attorney by paying her about half of what her white colleagues were paid for the same job.
The Supreme Court is taking up a new redistricting case involving Louisiana’s congressional map with two mostly Black districts.
Democrats, Republicans and voting rights advocates launched a wide array of efforts to boost Black voter turnout over the last week of the presidential campaign.
Few elections in the nation’s history have provided such a divide as this year’s, with the two major candidates and so many of their supporters saying the outcome will determine the fate of the country and whether it can hold to its democratic moorings.
Officials in New Haven, Connecticut, are considering a public apology for a decision by city leaders in 1831 to reject what would have been the nation's first Black college.
A fellowship program is training young Black men to become literacy aides in preschool classrooms across the country.
Vice President Kamala Harris helped pack diapers on Saturday for North Carolina hurricane victims.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump promises the biggest deportation event the U.S. has ever seen if he is elected.
Racial disparities in how schools discipline students received new attention at the outset of a national reckoning with racial injustice, but the results of reform efforts have been slow to materialize.
On the night she became the first woman of Black and South Asian heritage to be a major party’s nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris didn’t explicitly mention the racial and gender firsts she would set if elected to the White House.
The tear-jerker documentary “Daughters" follows four young girls as they prepare to reunite with their incarcerated fathers for a dance in a Washington, D.
On Aug. 9, 2014, Michael Brown and a friend were walking in the middle of Canfield Drive, a two-lane street in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, when a police officer drove by and told them to use the sidewalk.
Ohio Sen. JD Vance, Donald Trump’s running mate, is defending a false claim the former president made about Vice President Kamala Harris’ racial identity.
In a lawsuit challenging redistricting in Galveston County, the 5th Circuit said the protections afforded to a single racial group don’t apply to multiple groups who collectively claim voting rights violations.
President Joe Biden has announced that he will be endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris after dropping out of the presidential race.
A historic gold-rush town in Northern California is at the center of a restitution fight led by Black families who say their ancestors' land was taken.
The U.S. Navy has exonerated 256 Black sailors found to be unjustly punished in 1944 following a California port explosion that killed hundreds of service members and exposed racist double standards among the then-segregated ranks.
Vice President Kamala Harris held events on successive days this week highlighting her racial identity and personal background.
The best of Black culture’s policymakers, thought leaders, creatives, business minds, health experts and, of course, musical talent are converging in New Orleans over the Fourth of July holiday weekend as part of the Essence Festival of Culture.
Donald Trump's warning during his debate with Joe Biden that immigrants are taking “Black jobs" and “Hispanic jobs” prompted outrage from Democrats and Black leaders who found the language vague and racially discriminatory.
Everything is bigger in Texas, including the number of residents of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds who joined the state's population.
The Justice Department says Phoenix police discriminate against Black, Hispanic and Native American people, unlawfully detain homeless people and use excessive force, including unjustified deadly force.
The Supreme Court has preserved a Republican-held South Carolina congressional district, rejecting a lower-court ruling that the district discriminated against Black voters.
Ed Dwight, America's first Black astronaut candidate, has finally made it to space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company.
A Florida deputy's fatal shooting of a U.S. service member has jarred the former top enlisted officer of the Air Force.
The Supreme Court has ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections using a House map with a second mostly Black district, despite a lower-court ruling that called the map an illegal racial gerrymander.
The 5th Circuit expressed skepticism about arguments from both sides in considering whether a coalition of Black and Latino voters should be granted the same protections as a single racial group under the Voting Rights Act.
The future of the Tampa Bay Rays is about to come into clearer focus as the St. Petersburg City Council begins discussions about the team's planned $1.3 billion ballpark.
Bryce Harper hit a three-run homer and Zack Wheeler struck out 11 in seven innings to help the Philadelphia Phillies complete a four-game sweep of the San Francisco Giants with a 6-1 win.
Thousands of Black college students expected this weekend for an annual spring bash at Georgia's largest public beach shouldn't expect a warm welcome.
Donald Trump's visit to a Chick-fil-A restaurant location in Atlanta near the campuses of prominent historically black colleges and universities electrified conservative media at a moment when Republicans hope to make inroads with Democrats' most committed voting bloc.
This annual event showcases over 70 black-owned restaurants, food trucks, bars, bakeries, and catering businesses, offering special menu items and prices.
First, Beyoncé arrived at the 2024 Grammy Awards in full cowboy regalia — making a statement without saying a word.
A historic Black church in Houston’s Third Ward has been the target of a recent attack and repeated vandalism, costing them thousands of dollars.
Police say they are investigating whether the largest donor to Britain’s Conservative government committed a crime when he reportedly said a Black member of Parliament made him “want to hate all Black women” and that she “should be shot.”.
Vaughan Gething’s election as the next leader of Wales marks a milestone: For the first time, none of the U.K.’s four main governments is led by a white man.
Vaughan Gething has won the Welsh Labour Party leadership contest and is set to become the first Black leader of Wales’ semi-autonomous government.
Fake images of Donald Trump surrounded by smiling Black voters are circulating online, highlighting the potential dangers posed by artificial intelligence ahead of the 2024 election.
About 6,000 voters in a new congressional district formed to boost Black representation received postcards with incorrect voting information ahead of Tuesday’s primary election.
Supervisors in San Francisco have formally apologized to African Americans and their descendants for the city’s role in perpetuating racism and discrimination.
Black History Month was celebrated in the nation's capital with dueling events on Tuesday highlighting the divide between Democrats’ and Republicans' approaches to courting Black voters in the 2024 presidential election.
The complaint claims Bonham ISD and a city court discriminated against both Black students and disabled students by creating a hostile environment at school. The groups also filed a separate complaint against Corpus Christi ISD with the Texas Education Agency.
President Joe Biden has won South Carolina’s Democratic primary, notching a victory in the state that he pushed to lead the party’s nominating calendar.
NYPD officers will have to record the race of people they question under new police transparency law.
President Joe Biden praised the existence of Black churches while speaking at one in South Carolina.
A Black woman hired by a northern Utah school district to investigate racial harassment complaints says that she also experienced discrimination from district officials.
Activists who engage with voters of color are finding lackluster enthusiasm after disappointments on some issues such as voting rights and student loan forgiveness during President Joe Biden's term.
Some top Democrats are worried that a dip in Black voter turnout, along with other challenges, could doom President Joe Biden and his party in 2024.
The FBI is investigating a white South Carolina couple for racial discrimination after they set a cross on fire in their yard facing toward their Black neighbors’ home.
A Texas Tribune analysis of hate crime data found that 82% of Texas law enforcement agencies that report to the FBI tracked no hate crimes last year. However, one suburban North Texas police agency is creating a new model of collecting hate crime data.
The College Board has released an updated framework for its new Advanced Placement African American Studies course, which officially launches next academic year.
Georgia Republicans are advancing a proposed congressional map that maintains their party's 9-5 majority in the state's congressional delegation.
The American legal system has never faced greater challenges or demands for reform from people of all races and across the political spectrum.
Virginia’s state House will soon have its first Black speaker in its more than 400-year history after the chamber’s incoming Democratic majority on Saturday chose Del.
People in Mississippi’s largest county are demanding answers about why some polling places ran out of ballots and voters had to wait for them to be replenished on the day the state was deciding its most competitive governor’s race in a generation.
Mississippi's long history of voter suppression has created widespread voter fatigue among Black residents in a state where they account for nearly 40% of the population.
A clinical trial is recruiting thousands of volunteers to try to figure out if 3D mammograms are better than standard 2D imaging for catching advanced cancers.
A judge ruled on Friday that Galveston County must redraw its 2021 redistricting map because it violates the Voting Rights Act and United States Constitution, according to a news release from the Texas Civil Rights Project.
Judge Jeffrey V. Brown, a Trump appointee, found the county districts denied Black and Latino voters “the equal opportunity to participate in the political process.”
On the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, speakers called attention to a nationwide backlash against LGBTQ+ rights.
A sculpture commemorating the famous 1967 meeting of Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown and other athletes — now known as the Ali Summit — has been unveiled on the site of the original gathering.
Federal judges have selected new congressional lines for Alabama ensuring a second district where Black voters comprise a substantial portion of the electorate.
A federal judge says the court will swiftly adopt new congressional map for Alabama after ruling the state should have a second district with a substantial percentage of Black voters.
The Supreme Court is allowing work to proceed on a new Alabama congressional map with greater representation for Black voters.
Administrators in the Brazosport Independent School District have declared that last year’s Homecoming Queen is not welcome to pass the crown, a tradition, due to what she wore to graduation in May.
A court-appointed special master on Monday submitted three proposals for new congressional districts in Alabama after federal judges ruled the state must provide greater representation for Black voters.
A new exhibition is opening in London to chart for the first time the contributions Black British culture made to U.K. fashion and design history and to celebrate Black designers who haven't received public recognition.
The Supreme Court’s decision siding with Black voters in an Alabama redistricting case gave Democrats and voting rights activist a surprising opportunity before the 2024 elections to have congressional maps redrawn in a handful of states.
It’s time to tee off for a great cause! Houston Informer Foundation Inc.’s “September-2-Remember Charity Golf Classic,” sponsored by H-E-B, is a poignant tribute to the pioneering Black newspaper publishers and history-makers who have left an indelible mark on society.
A Virginia town is settling a lawsuit that sprang from a Black and Latino Army lieutenant being pepper sprayed during a traffic stop.
The Biden administration is spending $150 million to help owners of small parcels of forestland partner with private companies willing to pay them for carbon offsets and other environmental credits.
The March on Washington of 1963 is remembered most for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
A panel of federal judges on Monday began a review Alabama’s redrawn congressional map which opponents argue blatantly defies the court’s mandate to create a second district where Black voters have an opportunity to influence the outcome of an election.
The family of Henrietta Lacks has filed another lawsuit accusing a second company of unjustly profiting off her cells for generations.
Two suspects facing misdemeanor assault charges after a group of white men attacked a Black dockworker in a brawl on the Montgomery riverfront surrendered to police Wednesday, authorities said.
The coastal county faces a drawn-out trial over claims of intentional discrimination in its 2021 redistricting of commissioners court precincts. The only district in which Black and Latino voters could meaningfully influence elections was dismantled.
Tennessee is facing a lawsuit over a congressional redistricting map that carved up Democratic-leaning Nashville to help Republicans flip a seat in last year’s elections.
A school district in Utah will pay $2 million to the family of a Black, autistic 10-year-old girl who killed herself after being harassed by her classmates.
Several people were put in handcuffs after a massive brawl that stemmed from a worker being attacked at Riverfront Park in Montgomery, Alabama Saturday.
The family of Henrietta Lacks is settling a lawsuit against a biotechnology company it accuses of improperly profiting from her cells.
The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating how Memphis Police Department officers use force and conduct arrests, nearly seven months after the violent beating of Tyre Nichols by five officers after a traffic stop.
