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[ad_1] DALLAS, Texas — Trailblazing longtime U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, a nurse from Texas who helped bring hundreds of millions of federal dollars to the...
[ad_1] The tradition of Watch Night services in the United States dates back to Dec. 31, 1862, when many Black Americans gathered in churches and other...
[ad_1] The Biden administration is handing Louisiana regulators new power to attract and approve carbon capture projects at a time when the state’s influential energy sector...
[ad_1] BOSTON — It was a notorious murder that rattled Boston to its core, coarsened divisions in a city long riven along racial lines, and renewed...
[ad_1] WASHINGTON — The university presidents called before a congressional hearing on antisemitism last week had more in common than strife on their campuses: The leaders...
[ad_1] NORFOLK, Va. — NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A former U.S. Navy SEAL who says he shot Osama bin Laden is at the center of a...
[ad_1] An appeals court has ruled that the Florida Legislature didn’t violate the state constitution when it approved congressional maps pushed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis...
[ad_1] When Victoria Gray was still a baby, she started howling so inconsolably during a bath that she was rushed to the emergency room. The diagnosis...
[ad_1] ACCRA, Ghana — Delegates at a reparations summit in Ghana agreed Thursday to establish a Global Reparation Fund to push for overdue compensation for millions...
[ad_1] The Civil War produced two competing narratives, each an attempt to make sense of a conflict that had eradicated the pestilence of slavery. Black Americans...
[ad_1] The last time The Atlantic decided to reckon with Reconstruction in a sustained way, its editor touted “a series of scholarly, unpartisan studies of the...
[ad_1] UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. body formed to promote respect for and protect people of African descent around the world says in its first report...
[ad_1] WAYNE, Mich. — As Britney Johnson paced the picket line outside Ford’s Wayne Assembly plant, she wasn’t just carrying a sign demanding higher pay and...
[ad_1] WAYNE, Mich. — As Britney Johnson paced the picket line outside Ford’s Wayne Assembly plant, she wasn’t just carrying a sign demanding higher pay and...
[ad_1] Photos of iconic celebrities and historic moments from the collection of Elton John and David Furnish are set to go on display in London next...
[ad_1] CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio — As Jadarrius Rose drove his 18-wheeler through rural Ohio, a simple missing mudflap caught the highway patrol’s eye. The trip ended with...
[ad_1] WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has secured a $9 million settlement with Ameris Bank over allegations that it avoided underwriting mortgages in predominately Black and...
[ad_1] For more than half a century, I have been studying the shifting relations between white and Black Americans. My first journal article, published in 1972,...
[ad_1] NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Misty Copeland has her hands (and feet!) in many different projects simultaneously, but all are motivated by her...
[ad_1] MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Federal judges on Thursday selected new congressional lines for Alabama to give the Deep South state a second district where Black voters...