According to the Associated Press, Judge Barry Williams announced Tuesday that Officer William Porter will be the first officer charged in the unlawful arrest and death of Freddie Gray to go on trial....

Responding to long running complaints about the lack of national data available for how often police resort to deadly force, the FBI on Monday announced plans to track and publish the statistics....

Warren spoke out against police violence and voting restrictions, as well as persistent economic discrimination....

“Writing without shallow polemic and in a measured style, Coates addresses complex and challenging issues.”...

“What issue is ‘All Lives Matter’ confronting? None.”...

Some residents objected after the Prairie View City Council voted this summer to rename a street for the woman who died in a jail cell....

The Obama administration hopes to dramatically reduce HIV infections in girls and young woman in 10 sub-Saharan African nations....

On September 26, a corporation that works closely with the United Nations will bring together heads of state, dignitaries, business leaders, and humanitarians from all over the world to celebrate the idea of Black...

Isn’t she lovely?...

In a morning meeting with Republicans on Friday, House Speaker John Boehner announced his resignation from Congress amidst a struggle that could end with a government shutdown...

Taylor-Johnson believes that differences should be “recognized, valued, appreciated.”...

“Black lives matter. Latino lives matter. Non-celebrity lives matter. It’s high time the city acknowledged that.”...

The pope, who arrived in the United States Tuesday afternoon, was formally greeted Wednesday with an arrival ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House....

FERGUSON COVER-UP isn’t about the burning of Ferguson; it’s the why it did....

“We have to do more than just say we care.”...

Charmaine Chapman Leadership Society celebrated the kickoff of United Way’s 2015 annual fundraising campaign on August 27 at the newly remodeled Harold and Dorothy Steward Center for Jazz....