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The nonprofit Brother Box is on a mission to ensure Black boys have access to a holistic, culturally relevant and equitable education.

For Oscar Grant's family, loved ones and community, New Year's Day is a reminder of a persisting injustice. 

White transcended time with her comedic charm entertaining multiple generations.

One of our most dearest actress and comedians, Betty White has died. Just two weeks before reaching 100, Ms. White passed away in her home at 99, as reported by TMZ. Ms. Betty White was truly an American icon that pioneered and paved ways through the entertainment and media industry. For the past 80 years […]

Bingham County Sheriff Craig Rowland, who was arrested for menacing and apparently racially profiling pre-teens and teenagers in a church group in Iowa who he thought could be "drunk Indians," was not fired and kept his job while resisting calls to resign.

There is growing outrage in Austin, Minnesota after cops killed Kokou Christopher Fiafonou, an African immigrant, who was possibly suffering a mental health crisis when he was shot. His loved ones say he was "innocent."

The good people who run Heart and Soul Hospice, a Black-owned healthcare service out of Nashville, have made it their mission to make the end-of-life transition exceptionally meaningful for its clientele of grieving African American families.  

After news broke last year that parole had been approved for one of the men that killed James Jordan Sr., father of NBA icon Michael Jordan, it now appears the parole board decided to reverse that decision by terminating the agreement effective immediately.

As we watch 2021 come to a close, we are reminded that this year was filled with some great moments for HBCUs and the Black College community.

The Omicron variant is rapidly spreading across The United States, so fast, that this week, the country hit a record-breaking number of cases in just one day.

43-year-old Devonia Inman was finally able to call himself a free man after spending two-and-a-half decades at Augusta State Medical Prison for a crime he always claimed to be innocent of. 

The family of Valentina Orellana-Peralta, a young teenage girl killed last week after the LAPD shot recklessly at a suspect in a department store and struck her while she was trying on a dress, will be legally represented by civil rights attorney Ben Crump.