Uber banned a female passenger from using their car service for life after she threatened to accuse a company driver of rape during an angry tirade recently caught on video in the Bronx, New York.
Judge James K. Bredar ruled Friday for a consent decree allowing the overhauling of the Baltimore Police Department after a scathing 2016 Department of Justice report revealed officers operated with racial bias and used excessive force disproportionately on African Americans.
The NAACP chapter in Grand Rapids, Michigan and community organizers have joined together to fight local police practices involving community members after five unarmed Black teens were stopped and searched at gunpoint in March.
Planned Parenthood Federation of American announced Thursday that "Grey's Anatomy" and "Scandal" creator Shonda Rhimes has a new role on its national board.
California Rep. Maxine Waters said that Bill O'Reilly "needs to go to jail" and that his network is a "sexual harassment enterprise" during an MSNBC interview Wednesday.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Wednesday that he wants Chicago public high school students to produce acceptance letter from colleges, a branch of the armed forces or a trade program as a requirement for graduation.
The U.S. Department of Justice may re-open its investigation into the 1955 gruesome murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till for whistling at a White woman in Mississippi.
Fifteen-year-old Black student Chet Ellis recently won an essay contest and garnered national attention for a piece on White privilege in his affluent and predominately White town of Westport, Connecticut.
Social media users slammed a new protest ad from Pepsi featuring Kendall Jenner for offensively co-opting ideas and images from resistance movements such as Black Lives Matter Tuesday.
Southwestern Christian University men's basketball coach Dave Bliss resigned Monday after Showtime aired a documentary on the 2003 murder of former Baylor player Patrick Dennehy.
Jailed former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal will receive Hepatitis C treatment while serving a life sentence for the death of a Philadelphia police officer, said the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections spokeswoman Friday.
Willam T. Coleman Jr. --- a champion of civil rights who spent time as a cabinet secretary and influential lawyer in front of the Supreme Court --- died at the age of 96 from complications from Alzheimer’s disease at his Alexandria, Virginia home Friday.