“The Department of Education is on fire,” added Johnson, who moved from Atlanta to Maryland’s majority-Black Prince George’s ...

Read them in our free weekly newsletter. Sign up Underneath oak trees and Spanish moss from Texas to the Carolina coasts, the remains of Black Americans lay in unmarked graves across roadside ...

Larry Hoover, founder of a notorious Chicago street gang who has spent the past three decades in solitary confinement in federal prison, was granted clemency by President Donald Trump on Wednesday — ...

Two men who had been incarcerated in Fulton County Jail for over a year died in custody last week for unrelated reasons. Devin Franklin, movement policy coordinator for the Southern Center for Human ...

Iman Phelmon El-Amin (center) accepts an honorary posthumous bachelor's degree from Morehouse College on behalf of his late relative, Dennis T. Hubert, during Morehouse College's commencement ceremony ...

Debra Ramirez says she doesn’t remember a time when the water in her communities in the Lake Charles, Louisiana, area wasn’t murky. She has advocated for remediation and climate reparations for ...

The Angola prison rodeo brought in nearly half a million dollars a week in October for the state of Louisiana, largely through the labor of inmates who when not participating in the event can make as ...

Alma Jean Thomas-Carney is a local historian, civil rights activist, and entrepreneur who brought the first health clinic to Haywood County. She seen at the Dunbar Carver Museum in Brownsville, ...

Tolu Familoni quit her job and moved to Mexico City last year. She is one of thousands of Black Americans who've made the move in recent years. (Adam Mahoney/Capital B) Over the last two months, more ...

President Donald Trump enters the stage for his inauguration in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on Monday. Trump's nominees for his new administration are overwhelmingly anti-Black Lives Matter and ...