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Gail Etienne, Leona Tate, and Tessie Prevost's story was overshadowed for decades. Hurricane Katrina’s anniversary brings new ...
Research exposes how racial disparities in policing have created a pathway from routine life to permanent family separation ...
The annual commemoration of the day in 1865 when formerly enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas, learned of Abraham’s ...
A spring election marked by low voter turnout could impact how much many Georgians pay for electricity for years to come.
Tyler Perry is facing a $260 million sexual assault suit filed by a former actor on his series The Oval. On Tuesday, The New York Times reported that Derek Dixon, an actor who worked with Perry on two ...
Living in deplorable conditions, some tenants are facing evictions this summer despite having paid their rent.
A bright young leader with a kind heart, Morehouse College student Kyle Coleman had a promising future. So when his parents, ...
For a year, residents on St. Helena Island, South Carolina, have been blocked from their ancestral cemetery by gates erected by property owners.
In a neighborhood founded by freed slaves, residents are fighting back against unpermitted pollution from the world’s most powerful supercomputer.
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The slain legislator pushed for an array of causes — from voting rights to free school meals — that benefited marginalized communities.