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[ad_1] NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — “Some Like It Hot,” a Broadway musical adaptation of the cross-dressing movie comedy that starred Tony Curtis and...
[ad_1] NEW YORK — Harry Belafonte, the civil rights and entertainment giant who began as a groundbreaking actor and singer and became an activist, humanitarian and...
[ad_1] The College Board says changes will be made to its new AP African American studies course, after critics said the agency bowed to political pressure...
[ad_1] JACKSON, Miss. — The NAACP warns that “separate and unequal policing” will return to Mississippi’s majority-Black capital under a state-run police department, and the civil...
[ad_1] IDABEL, Okla. — So many residents of northern Texas cross the border into McCurtain County in far southeast Oklahoma each week that the area has...
[ad_1] PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — As a child, Lawrance W. McFarland lived on a small piece of land on a Native American reservation in Palm Springs...
[ad_1] WASHINGTON — Extreme views adopted by some local, state and federal political leaders who try to limit what history can be taught in schools and...
[ad_1] WASHINGTON — Extreme views adopted by some local, state and federal political leaders who try to limit what history can be taught in schools and...
[ad_1] Three men whose graves were found at the original site of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches were members of its congregation in the...
[ad_1] SAN FRANCISCO — It could cost California more than $800 billion to compensate Black residents for generations of over-policing, disproportionate incarceration and housing discrimination, economists...
[ad_1] SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco supervisors have backed the idea of paying reparations to Black people, but whether members will agree to lump-sum payments of...
[ad_1] SAN FRANCISCO — Payments of $5 million to every eligible Black adult, the elimination of personal debt and tax burdens, guaranteed annual incomes of at...
[ad_1] Nyhiem Way is weary of people conflating African American and Black. Shalini Parekh wants a way for South Asian people to identify themselves differently than...
[ad_1] SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Nearly two years into the California reparations task force’s work, the group still has yet to make key decisions that will be...
[ad_1] SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Nearly two years into the California reparations task force’s work, the group still has yet to make key decisions that will be...
[ad_1] BOWIE, Md. — Surrounded by kindergarteners, Lana Scott held up a card with upper and lower case Ys, dotted with pictures of words that started...
[ad_1] BALTIMORE — In 2018, Angela Banks received bad news from her landlord: Baltimore officials were buying her family’s home of four decades, planning to demolish...
[ad_1] TRENTON, N.J. — Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy said Tuesday that his administration is expanding Advanced Placement African American Studies courses next year from one school...
[ad_1] Stephen B. Thomas, the director of the Center for Health Equity at the University of Maryland, considers himself an eternal optimist. When he reflects on...
[ad_1] SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s committee to study reparations for African Americans will meet in Oakland Wednesday to discuss what form reparations could take and eligibility...