The portrait arrived in Portland in 1873. Its subject, Macon Bolling Allen, was admitted to the Maine bar decades earlier as the nation's first Black lawyer. His picture hung at City Hall for several ...

Black policing in Miami was not always as integrated as it is today. Black officers were once marginalized. The Black Police ...

The media's interest in presidential pardons seems sudden.

Black people were much more likely as white people to be convicted of felony murder based on accomplice liability, study says ...

The Trump administration’s decision to expel the South African ambassador is its latest move against a country it has singled ...

From racial terror to literacy tests to modern-day voter suppression, efforts to silence Black political power have never stopped.

Funeral services for late NAACP New York State Conference President Hazel Dukes are being held at Mother A.M.E. Zion Church ...

Robert G. Clark, who was elected in 1967 as Mississippi’s first Black lawmaker of the 20th century and rose to the ...

The nation's capital city will remove the large painting of the words “Black Lives Matter” on a street one block from the ...

The comeback attempt, three years after Andrew M. Cuomo resigned as governor in scandal, will test New Yorkers’ appetite for ...