Protests at Georgetown University have prompted officials to rename two buildings named for school presidents "who organized the sale of Jesuit-owned slaves to help pay off campus debt in the 1830s."
President Barack Obama on Monday pledged solidarity with France after explosives and gunfire killed more than 120 people last week in Paris in coordinated terror attacks claimed by ISIS.
“Thank you for calling Wal-Mart, we’re out of the Patti LaBelle pie, how can I help you?” was the message a writer at the Washington Post received this weekend after calling the store, where the pies are sold for $3.48.
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Former North Charleston, South Carolina officer Michael Slager says the police association promised to pay his legal bills after he was arrested and charged in the shooting death of Walter Scott, an unarmed Black man.
NewsOne this week visited Hillary for America headquarters in New York City's Brooklyn Heights community to meet five Black millennials working on the campaign.
In a trial that began Tuesday in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Daniel Holtzclaw, who is White, faces 36 counts of rape, sexual battery, and forcible oral sodomy of 13 Black women. Problem is, there are no Black women or men on the jury.
Google.org's decision comes after the Mountain View, California tech giant announced plans this spring to recruit more women and people of color into one of the best paid growth industries in the nation.
Sgt. Michael Walker was arrested by FBI agents Wednesday after a federal grand jury indicted him for murder in the Nov. 14, 2014 stabbing death of his wife, Catherine Walker.
Democratic congressional leaders, Sen. Barbara Boxer and Rep. Barbara Lee, are calling on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to address the findings that show the incidence of breast cancer among Black women is equal to that of white women for the first time in recent history.
Alonzo Smith was found unconscious and not breathing on Sunday by the Metropolitan Police Department.
On Monday, President Obama unveiled a series of initiatives to overhaul the criminal justice system. Here's how the reforms will help Blacks and other people of color.