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....

Muhammad Ali, the silver-tongued boxer and civil rights champion who famously proclaimed himself “The Greatest” and then spent a lifetime living up to the billing, is dead....

Jasmine Richards was found guilty of attempting to unlawfully remove a suspect from police custody during a protest....

“Black Lives Matter, this is what we’ve been waiting for,” Davis said to Steinem....

A new government ban in Ghana shines a light on the seriously dangerous side effects....

Black Twitter came through with a treasure trove of essential writing on slavery....

Two people were injured in a shooting at UCLA on Wednesday morning, according to a university spokesperson....

“Always remember, a struggle is not easy – that is why it is called a ‘struggle’ rather than a ‘picnic.’”...

Police allege a resident shot the 23-year-old guard after he broke into his apartment....

Black women are the fastest-growing population across all branches of the armed forces, so why won’t politicians talk to them?...

In 2007, Kevin Morton Jr. was shot in the abdomen after a botched robbery attempt. Nine years later, he is set to begin his residency at Detroit’s St. John Hospital, where doctors helped save...