Alicia Garza says a true democracy is one where every life matters....

African-Americans are disproportionately affected by sickle cell, but not enough are signing up for clinical trials to help....

We’re already huge fans of her work....

It’s America’s second Independence Day, and it’s lit....

Mayor Libby Schaaf promised to destroy the “disgusting,” “macho” culture of the Oakland Police Department....

“I forgive the guy for doing what he did, but he took away [my family]. That’s something I’ll never get over.”...

The Federal Communications Commission has started an auction to allow Howard University to sell off WHUT, our nation’s first and only black-owned public TV station, leaving the broadcast airwaves to be run almost exclusively...

Johnson Publishing will leave the publishing business behind, having sold Ebony and Jet to Clear View Group, an Austin, Texas firm....

A federal judge ruled Dylann Roof, suspected in the June 2015 shootings in a Charleston, S.C., church in which nine people died, will face a trial by jury....

History was made when four black actors took home the biggest awards of the night. But what’s the takeaway?...

What you can do after a gunman killed 49 people and injured 53 others in the deadliest mass shooting in US history....

The decline in labor force participation rates has been widely documented, but the growing gulf in the work gap between the bottom third and the rest of the population is truly striking...

The shooter, identified by police as 29-year-old Omar Mateen, called 911 before the attack and professed allegiance to the Islamic State group, authorities say....

Why Denzel Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Vin Diesel and more are celebrating the new book....

“I don’t think there’s ever been someone so qualified to hold this office,” the president said in an endorsement video released Thursday....

2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is now the presumtive nominee for her party, according to the AP, which will make her the first woman to be a major party’s top pick....

A wide and growing optimism gap has opened between poor and middle-class whites and their counterparts of other races—and the former are the congenital pessimists....