National

By Joe Heim and Rachel Weiner, washingtonpost.com A judge found police officer Edward M. Nero not guilty of four criminal counts in the case of Freddie Gray, whose death last year in police custody sparked riots […]

By Patrick Phillips and Kyle Foster, live5news.com The downtown Charleston church where nine parishioners were gunned down last summer has donated $1.5 million to the families of the victims. Mother Emanuel AME Church donated the money, […]

by Evelyn Diaz (BET) The U.S. Government has laid down the law — literally — when it comes to North Carolina’s controversial anti-transgender bathroom bill. Last week, the Justice Department warned governor Pat McCrory that the state’s […]

By Tony Lombardo, The Army Times West Point is investigating a photo that shows 16 black female cadets in uniform displaying raised fists outside a U.S. Military Academy barracks. The image has been shared widely in […]

By Michael Barone, realclearpolitics.com Ethnicity still matters. That’s one lesson I draw from the results so far of this year’s Republican and Democratic primaries and caucuses. We’re encouraged to believe ethnicity doesn’t matter much anymore; […]

U.S. paper money is getting a historic makeover. For the first time in history, famous Black pioneers will grace the U.S. currency. Harriet Tubman, an African-American abolitionist born into slavery, will be the new face […]

by April Taylor (NPR) It seems like a common sense conclusion to assume that the student bodies at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) mainly consist of African American students. However there are some HBCU’s […]

The Tuskegee Airmen are celebrated for good reason. They helped accomplish the cherished “Double V” – a victory over Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime in Europe, and overcoming “Jim Crow” discrimination practices that had kept them […]

Rachel Dolezal‘s story isn’t over yet. The former head of the NAACP’s Spokane, Washington chapter is reportedly writing a book about racial identity. Obviously, Dolezal isn’t a go-to expert on the topic, but nonetheless, we’re […]