The federal investigation will examine whether the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department engages in unconstitutional patterns or ...

The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into a Mississippi sheriff’s department whose officers tortured two Black men in a racist attack that included beatings, repeated use of ...

Mark Robinson, the controversial and socially conservative Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina, made a series of inflammatory comments on a pornography website’s message board more than ...

A federal judge has partially sided with the family of a Black man who was fatally shot by a now-imprisoned white Kansas City, Missouri, ...

Willie “Prophet” Stiggers realized that the music industry is fueled by Black talent, but lacked an organization that ...

The Indianapolis Black Theatre Company (IBTC), which premiers its first show of its inaugural season “Toni Stone” Sept. 19-Oct. 6, is here to create sustainable theater for the Black community.

The Texas Tribune The rate of Texas women who died because of pregnancy or childbirth rose sharply in 2020 and 2021 to the highest since the state started tracking maternal deaths in 2013. Even ...

The Government Accountability Office found that Black girls received nearly half of the most severe punishments, like ...

Supervisor Chairman John Shields’ request to order clearances was an on-the-spot addition to the supervisors’ published ...