‎News · 2024

On March 13, the 26-year-old aspiring nurse was killed in her apartment, shot eight times by Louisville police officers who officials have said were executing a drug warrant. The family has sued.

BALTIMORE (AP) — Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a sharecropper's son who rose to become a civil rights champion and the chairman of one of the U.S.

The release comes nine days after Floyd's death following police encounter.

In West Virginia, older residents often go without dental care, and a quarter of people 65 and older have no natural teeth, the highest rate of any state in the country. But a powerful senator from...

For the first time three African-American women will be circuit judges in Hinds County.

In both culture and in politics this summer, Black women succeeded and were celebrated by other Black women

Harris' rise to the vice presidency comes in the centennial year of suffrage and 55 years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

ATLANTA (AP) — The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery fought to end segregation, lived to see the election of the country’s first black president and echoed the call for “justice to roll down like waters and...

The state’s voter rolls have grown by nearly 2 million since the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, but polling locations have been cut by almost 10%, with Metro Atlanta hit...

Kate Bedingfield, Jen Psaki, Karine Jean-Pierre and Symone Sanders will be among those overseeing communications for the incoming administration.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The topic of reparations for slavery is headed to Capitol Hill for its first hearing in more than a decade with writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and actor Danny Glover set to testify before...

She becomes one of the few Black women to anchor a major American evening news program. The move was made by new leadership at NBC News, which runs the liberal-leaning cable network.

“Black women have been telling the truth about America for a long time.”

Her 1619 Project is at the center of a political battle over what students can learn about race in America.

Emmett Till's 1955 lynching propelled the civil rights movement, but telling his story underscores a reluctance for some in Mississippi "to come to grips with its history of racial brutality."

A Canadian student majoring in operations research and financial engineering has been named the first black valedictorian in Princeton University’s 274-year history.

The voting rights activist’s hard work in registering and energizing people is paying off at one of the nation’s most pivotal moments.

How LaTosha Brown helped build Black Voters Matter, a powerhouse get-out-the-vote organization in the South.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist will be the first Knight Chair professor at the university to be denied tenure by the board of trustees.

Race is one of the strongest predictors of how long a person waits in line to vote, research shows.

HOUSTON (AP) — Elizabeth Warren was the last of eight presidential candidates to take the stage at Texas Southern University last month when she was pressed for a solution to black women dying during...

Errin Haines, The 19th's editor-at-large, was awarded the prize for her "Portraits of a Pandemic" series. 

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Michael Brown's mother was defeated Tuesday in her bid for a seat on the City Council in Ferguson, Missouri, where her son died in a police shooting that helped give rise to the...

Tishaura Jones became the latest with a Tuesday win to become the first Black woman mayor of St. Louis.

Jean-Pierre joins Symone Sanders in the role and will work on outreach and programming for black voters — and black women in particular.

For Ju’Niyah Palmer, the police killing of Breonna Taylor was not only a public outrage but a personal tragedy.

ATLANTA (AP) — When Barbara Williams arrived at the Pittman Park Recreation Center just before noon on Election Day to cast her vote, she saw a line so long that the end wasn't in sight.

How the White House and its unconventional allies scrambled to secure A$AP Rocky’s freedom.

Harris' rise to the vice presidency comes in the centennial year of suffrage and 55 years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act.