Vice President Kamala Harris has announced a plan that's intended to end racial and ethnic discrimination in the appraisal of home values. By JOSH BOAK, Associated Press Vice President Kamala…
A shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico has been identified and the mystery of its multiracial crew’s fate unraveled. The shipwreck formally known as No. 15563 has been identified as…
The plaintiffs claim that they were not allowed to contact family members or a lawyer during the stop. NEW ORLEANS — Two men say they were subjected to a racially…
By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) -A federal court jury on Friday awarded $14 million to a dozen activists who sued Denver police, claiming excessive force was used against peaceful protesters…
SACRAMENTO — Antoinette Harrell has spent nearly three decades of her life verifying cases of slavery in the South before and after emancipation. She visits grave sites, interviews grandparents, explores dusty attics,…
California’s first-in-the-nation task force on reparations has decided to limit state compensation to the descendants of free and enslaved Black people who were in the U.S. in the 19th century,…
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Days before his own death, Louisiana Master Trooper Chris Hollingsworth walked into a secure room deep inside state police headquarters, swore an oath and told…
(JTA) — “How long have known me, Stu?” Madeleine Albright asked me that question with a sense of urgency I had not heard from her before. It was mid-January 1996,…
President Biden signed into law Tuesday a historic bill to make lynching a federal hate crime in the U.S. for the first time. Why it matters: The new law comes…
A Liberian accused of having been a rebel leader during the deadly civil war that tore his country apart has been arrested in the United States, suspected of hiding his…