Leading Black women across the nation are expressing outrage this week over the videotaped violent incident showing a white police officer in Columbia, S.C
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America nears sweeping reform of a criminal justice system that has decimated Black communities
A Georgia state prosecutor has announced the indictments of 15 people who threatened African-Americans and used racial slurs when they stopped at a family party while cruising around in a convoy of pickup trucks flying Confederate flags
‘They entertain you with foolishness’
Leaders of the nation’s major Black churches — representing nearly 13 million African-American members — presented over 10,000 pastors’ signatures to Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) members in support of President Obama’s Clean Power Plan.
President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, front-runner for the Democratic Party’s 2016 presidential nomination, were among the speakers at a recent conference of Democratic female activists, encouraging them, “We cannot rest on our laurels.”
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (LCCRUL) has named Kristen Clarke of the New York Attorney General’s Office as its new president and executive director, effective Jan. 1.
America nears sweeping reform of a criminal justice system that has decimated Black communities
Jalen Rose: A hero for education
Abandoned and left on the streets, these two boxing champions are now cheered by the very parents who once cast them aside. It is the story of four individual transformations combining into one incredible tale.