Born on the unforgiving grounds of California’s San Quentin Prison, Black August is a child of the regularly erased, the often unnamed and widely unclaimed people most of us were never meant to know.
Dr. Erica Schwartz, President Donald Trump’s pick for CDC director, previously served as deputy attorney general during Trump’s first term.
The five-game suspension of a Seattle Storm co-owner highlights the deep imbalance in how the WNBA administers discipline.
The State Medical Examiner’s Office announced that it has completed its autopsy of Nolan Wells’s body. A grand jury will review the findings.
Da’Jon Anthony Hayes-Burr, 15, was honored in April after he was stabbed while protecting a 12-year-old girl who was being sexually harassed by a grown man.
Kappa Alpha Psi hazing incident leads to felony charges against 3 suspects for severe injuries to 2 victims over 4 days of abuse.
In a 51-to-47 vote that fell along party lines, the Senate confirmed Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton as the new intelligence director.
ICE has made legitimate law enforcement look so much like criminal abduction in broad daylight that private predators are now able to reproduce state terror almost perfectly.
The Bass Reeves Gun Club is becoming a beacon of Black self-determination, fostering a community of armed citizens committed to their own protection and civil rights.
Dream Defenders is a Black-led, feminist, socialist, abolitionist, and internationalist political formation fighting for a world without prisons, police, capitalism and imperialism.
Mitch McConnell released a second "proof-of-life" photo that is as baffling as the first, and no one believes he is still alive.
The Bison ONE Newsroom is a groundbreaking, first-of-its-kind partnership between a national media corporation and an HBCU journalism program—a partnership that honors the power of HBCUs as incubators of cultural and political transformation.
'Freedom Table' is a new monthly conversation with organizers, journalists, business leaders, strategists, and culture-makers, hosted by Rashad Robinson in collaboration with NewsOne.
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Each week on Le[e]gal Brief, movement lawyer Lee Merritt gives legal insight on the week's top news topics.
There is a ghost roaming the halls of Pickens County Museum in South Carolina and his name is Willie Earle.
Obama's 2026 summer playlist reflects his eclectic taste, featuring legends, rising stars, and a Drake co-sign.
Black fantasy books showcase diverse heroes, powerful mythology, and stories that celebrate African history and culture.
Kevin Feige revealed that Coogler couldn't contain his excitement when he revealed that "he found his guy," and they have been sitting on this news for about five to six months.
Wisconsin’s former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes dropped out as polling showed Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong holds a commanding lead in the race.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has demanded that hospitals send them private medical data. Kinda weird for an agency focused on product recalls.
Beshear's sternly worded letter might appear to show that he has taken the gloves off, those gloves are still on snug, as Beshear, like the rest of his party, is still playing nice.
This move has little to do with monitoring immigrants and more to do with criminalizing and villainizing a marginalized group of people.
In 2015, Davis, who worked as a county clerk in Eastern Kentucky at the time, made national headlines for ignoring the SCOTUS decision and refusing to issue licenses to gay couples.
Under the Trump administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has abandoned investigating discrimination and workplace sexual harassment.
Baltimore mayor demystifies Black fatherhood with stroller walk, challenging stereotypes with data and personal experience.
Twin sisters Tia and Jasmin Criss, seniors at Cheyney University, to graduate as valedictorian and salutatorian, defying expectations.
As formal Black cultural institutions face unprecedented attacks, a Brooklyn spades tournament is a reminder that some traditions were never theirs to take.
Nancy Alexander, who attended John Farren Elementary School on Chicago’s South Side during the late 1970s and early '80s, was raped and impregnated by Richard Neff.
The Urban League’s “State of Black America” report addresses the economic impact the Trump administration's attacks on DEI have had on Black people.
Joniah Walker went missing in June 2022 when she was 15-years-old, after going to meet a man she had been talking to online for years.
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Last September, attorney Ben Crump came to the aid of the family of Trey Reed after the 21-year-old was found hanging from a tree on Delta State’s campus.
The letters were sent to the families of the friends that Nolan Wells was last seen with before his mysterious death earlier this month.
NYC launches 30% discounted grocery stores to make food more affordable for all residents.
Sen. Rand Paul led the Senate hearing that was mostly spent attacking Dr. Anthony Fauci over his response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
An appellate court rejected Trump's request last September, yet his attorneys are relying on the same argument to try and sway the Supreme Court.
HBCUs face mounting financial challenges, with Howard University's enrollment controversy highlighting broader nationwide issues.
D4VD's preliminary hearing revealed troubling details about his alleged involvement in the murder of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez.