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A civil rights complaint was brought against the Lone Wolf Housing Authority, the former executive director and a former program assistant in December 2020. Â
Edmonia Lewis, the first Black sculptor, will be honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a forever stamp.
Russell Westbrook is creating a documentary about trailblazing Black basketball players who competed before the NBA's racial integration.
Songstress Ciara surprised a 6-year-old cancer survivor with a trip to Disney World.
One of the most fascinating aspects of Sidney Poitier’s career was his political and racial symbolism and how, in many ways, his screen life intertwined with that of the civil rights movement – and Martin Luther King himself.
46-year-old James R. Williams was shot and killed by a Canton, Ohio, police officer, who, according to James' wife, Marquetta Williams, shot him without warning as he was shooting an AR-15 rifle that belongs to his wife in the air.
This week's Fayetteville, North Carolina road rage killing of Stephen Addison, a Black man, could result in hate crime charges against suspected white supremacist Roger Dale Nobles, who has in the past been accused of using racial slurs.
Bahamian actor, director, writer, and diplomat Sidney Poitier, has died at the age of 94. His death was confirmed by multiple Bahamian news outlets as well as the Bahamian Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Zora Neale Hurston, the writer, folklorist, anthropologist and one of the most outstanding authors that emerged from the Harlem Renaissance, was born on Jan. 7, 1891. Her legacy lives on.
Not only did the Black unemployment rate in December jump to more than twice that of white people, but Black workers -- who already have long had the highest rate of all demographics -- saw their levels of joblessness grow while everybody else's dropped.
A judge handed down life in prison sentences to each of Ahmuad Arbery's three convicted murderers - Greg and Travis McMichaels and William "Roddie" Bryan - for the brutal and brazen killing of the unarmed Black jogger in a case that centered on race and captivated the world's attention.
A child playing with a lighter near a Christmas tree may have caused this week's deadly fire at a rowhouse in Philadelphia that killed 12 people, including eight children, according to a search warrant for the property.
