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Tanya Tripp was arrested after police found her with her husband, Leon Lamar Tripp, the last person seen with her missing daughter.

Criminal justice reform advocate Glenn Martin says there's too much at stake to wait a decade to close the notorious New York City jail.

Opinion

Recent controversy about hair care products has returned the perennial issue of the politics of Black hair to the spotlight.

Politicker Home

Donald Trump's remarks about the Civil War are the latest example of a longstanding problem.

Leon Lamar Tripp reportedly left the family's home in Augusta, Georgia, with his stepdaughter, Latania Janell Carwell, 16, early one morning two weeks ago, police and relatives say.

Latania Janelle Carwell and her stepfather, Leon Lamar Tripp, were last seen in the 3100 block of Tate Road in a 1990 GMC Sierra pickup truck with Georgia license plates, police say.

Nation

Guy Anthony and George Johnson founded the nonprofit, Black, Gifted, and Whole, to help empower young, queer Black men through mentoring and scholarship at HBCUs.

President Donald Trump ordered the launch of 59 Tomahawk missiles Thursday at a Syrian military base following the country's suspected use of chemical weapons in an attack that killed over 100 people.

Gift Kamau was last seen on the morning of March 30 leaving her home in Madison, Illinois, on her way to class at St. Louis University.

Shaniah Boyd is among the Black and Latina girls missing in Washington, D.C., police say.

An Instagram post announcing that 14 black girls went missing in D.C. within a 24-hour period sent people into a tizzy. Celebrities such as Taraji P. Henson, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, LL Cool J and Gabrielle Union began posting about the missing Black girls in D.C. Soon, the Congressional Black Caucus was involved and called for the FBI to investigate. That's not all. Press conferences were held and demands made for authorities to pay more attention to the plight of missing black women in D.C. Problem was, the information was incorrect.

#BlackLivesMatter

Despite a glaring absence from the daily menu of mainstream media coverage, activists argue the Black Lives Matter movement still matters in the Trump era.