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by Frederick Lowe Congress has passed legislation reducing sentences for some inmates serving time in federal prisons, but the law won’t affect state prisons and jails where the majority of black men are serving time. […]

“I am a 53-year old white man in the south. You can Prada oeuvre all you want. I know blackface when I see it and this it,” wrote an observer of the controversy on Twitter, […]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A new federal lawsuit against Gilead Sciences exposes how the pharmaceutical giant is putting profits over people, especially oppressed groups including black and LGBT communities, said renowned civil rights attorney Ben Crump. […]

  By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent The heartache expressed on Tuesday night by the many supporters of Stacey Abrams has suddenly turned to hope after absentee and other ballots counted brought the Georgia […]

Veteren Derek Tyson Now helping many vets By Chinta Strausberg|Chicago Crusader A veterans service specialist at Olive-Harvey College, Dr. Derek Tyson was a Nuclear Biological Chemical specialist and former airborne paratrooper serving three-years in the U.S. Army […]

U.S. Representative Maxine Waters The FBI today arrested a 56-year-old Florida man for sending the devices A fingerprint found on a package mailed to U.S. Representative Maxine Waters provided the lead that led to the […]

A group of Mrs. America contestants’ complaints of racism about the pageant CEO and co-founder may open the floodgates for more allegations to come in the future. The complaints already have re-opened the door to […]

The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously voted to advance the bipartisan Justice for Victims of Lynching Act of 2018, historic legislation that would criminalize lynching, attempts to lynch, and conspiracy to lynch for the first time […]

By Hazel Trice Edney WASHINGTON–Despite the fact that the Fair Housing Act was passed by Congress more than 50 years ago, evidence reveals that government-supported racial discrimination in home buying remains rampant across the U.S. […]

by Stacy Brown The genius, intelligence, beauty and spirit of Black women, which continues to transform the world, shined brightly again Sunday as Nia Franklin became the first Miss America in the post-swimsuit era. “It […]