Politics

Under the plan, the Department of Education will award up to $8 million in federal grants over three years to help support educational achievement for ex-inmates.

Now that Biden has decided not to run, leaders are flocking to front-runner Hillary Clinton. To be sure, an endorsement from top elected officials during primary elections usually signifies who will be the Democratic and Republican presidential nominee.

While dancing may not be answer in all cases, we wish more officers would make efforts to defuse situations instead of drawing their weapons or escalating tensions.

In a desperate move to garner points at the third Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colorado, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie blamed President Barack Obama for "failing to support police officers."

While addressing the International Association of Chiefs of Police during an appearance in Chicago Tuesday, President Barack Obama declared that law enforcement often gets "scapegoated" for failures in society and the criminal justice system.

Just like the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the RNC refuses to schedule a debate solely on the issue of racial justice. Activists affiliated with the #BlackLivesMatter network and Campaign Zero had asked the two parties to add a formal racial justice debate to their schedules.

Sadly, the Democrats, even with a mention of the Black Lives Matter Network, fell short. The concerns of millions of Black Americans were all but dismissed in the first debate, indicating that even the left needs a crash course on how to gain the Black vote.

A Clinton aide confirmed the agreement for NewsOne in an email statement, saying that her campaign will no longer accept contributions from federally registered lobbyists or PACs for private prison companies.

Nick Mosby, Baltimore councilman and husband of State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby, has announced his candidacy for mayor.

Carson hurled his latest attack against Blacks and abortion during an appearance Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press, where he compared women who terminate their pregnancies to "slave owners."

After months of being on the defensive, Hillary Clinton on Thursday fended off 11 hours of hostile questioning from Republicans looking into the Benghazi attacks on Sept. 11, 2012--and, in the process, demonstrated a temperament that was nothing short of presidential.

Echoing the sentiments of activists who have countered the dismissive "All Lives Matter" refrain, Obama reiterated that while all lives do matter, Black communities are under a specific and unique scourge that needs to be addressed.