National

Memorial Day 2017 is here, and it is the 149th year of its celebration. It started as Decoration Day after the American Civil War in 1868. It is a federal holiday set aside to honor […]

The District of Columbia has won back-to-back Miss USA titles and both of them are women of color. Kara McCullough, a 25-year-old scientist working for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, was crowned Sunday at the […]

by Kevin McGill NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The statue of the Confederacy’s president had been hoisted from its stone pedestal in the pre-dawn hours and the blue glint of police lights was still visible two […]

by Dani McClain Shonta Montgomery hugs her son Levell Jones at California Institute for Women in Chino, California. (Reuters / Lucy Nicholson)  (THE NATION) This week, black women in more than a dozen jails across […]

by John Schuppe (NBC NEWS) The Trump era of drug enforcement has officially arrived, and it sounds a lot like the old days. The message came this week in the form of a memo from […]

At a press conference held at Loretto Hospital, Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-7th) Friday, said, “Hell no. We won’t go for the Trumpcare health plan and predicted the Senate will reject the House GOP version. […]

Ben Carson By Sam Levine, huffingtonpost.com Ben Carson, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is concerned that those who rely on the government for help with their housing aren’t too comfortable. The New York […]

by Alex Lasker A clothing company has apologized after a racist, user-created T-shirt slipped through a filtration system and ended up for sale on its website. Teespring, a custom design company which allows users to […]