Security experts and activists reflect on the legacy terrorist attacks on East Coast left on border communities EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Sept. 11, 2001, was the day Middle America began…
Philadelphia settled a case with a mother whom police officers dragged from her car and beat up during protests against police violence last year. The city settled for $2 million before she…
A new study out of California shows that Black boys and girls are hospitalized from police violence at a rate far higher than their white peers. The researchers from the University of…
ASHEVILLE - The City Council is set to take a final vote Sept. 14 on where to spend $26.3 million in federal COVID-19 aid as well as award a nearly…
The U.S. has placed Black and brown communities at a disadvantage in fighting the climate crisis. That must be fixed. Over the last several years, worsening and multiplying climate-related disasters…
Reggie Jackson, a writer for the Milwaukee Independent and the former head griot, or oral historian, at America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee, has a long history of military service…
The conversation about reparations for slavery entered a new stage earlier in 2021, with the U.S. House Judiciary Committee voting for the creation of a commission to address the matter. The bill, H.R.…
The state of Alabama has a new poet laureate: Ashley M. Jones is the first Black poet to claim the title, and at 31, also the youngest. Jones is honored, but…
Mayor Bruce Teague: ‘I really think that there's a lot more work to be done and moving forward with this is a little hard for me’ IOWA CITY — Iowa…
The 20th anniversary of Sept. 11 challenges us to consider what our country stands for, what it should stand for, and for whom it should stand. The central conceit of Confederate monuments is…