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Vice President Kamala Harris visited with a dejected Howard University men's basketball team following their loss in the NCAA Tournament. "You made all us Bison so proud," the Howard alumna told them.

South Carolina Carolina lawmakers are debating changing a controversial bill that would impose the death penalty for terminating a pregnancy. The bill has been dubbed the South Carolina Prenatal Equal Protection Act of 2023.

A bill in the Oklahoma state legislature prohibiting school faculty from spanking students with disabilities didn't pass. Republican Rep. Jim Olsen defended his "no" vote with bible verses.

Gov. Wes Moore called the abortion pill lawsuit an attack on women's rights to make their own health decisions and vowed to defend reproductive care in Maryland.

Conservative writer Bethany Mandel struggled to define "woke" during a now-viral interview despite having authored a book about the politically charged word whose real meaning has been bastardized by conservatives.

A new letter urges President Biden to employ "diplomatic intervention" with Mexico over the death of Shanquella Robinson to "send a clear message that transnational criminal activities will not be tolerated."

A Mississippi sheriff is changing his story after previously ruling out "foul play" in the death of Rasheem Carter, whose autopsy suggests he was lynched. “There’s nothing to hide," Smith County Sheriff Joel Houston insisted.

Sidney Holmes was exonerated after serving more than 34 years of a 400-year prison sentence over an armed robbery he wasn't involved with. He joins a long list of wrongfully convicted Black people.

Texas Republicans announced their plans to take over Houston Independent School District, which is also majority Black or Hispanic.

In episode four of the series, the Osundairo brothers went into detail about the time and location of the staged kerfuffle.

A Wall Street Journal writer suggested without evidence that "diversity demands" might have contributed to the Silicon Valley Bank collapse because there was "1 Black" on the board.

Rep. Robert Alex Andrade proposed HB 999, which bans college and university programs in Florida that promote diversity, equity and inclusion, possibly including Black fraternities and sororities.