Decades ago on the streets of Gearhart, William Badger was a familiar presence — fixing public roads and serving meals at his ...

On Feb. 23, 1971, James R. Ford made history when he won a seat on the Tallahassee City Commission, 100 years after the first ...

The first-ever group of students admitted to the University of Arkansas included a Black man. James McGehee of Woodruff ...

Oregon has one of the smallest Black populations in the U.S. A history of exclusion laws and ongoing systemic racism play major roles.

The abolitionist movement did not begin with benevolence. It began with Black Christian witness — with faith refined by ...

Leroy Eldridge Cleaver was one of the best-known and most recognizable symbols of African American rebellion in the 1960s as ...

After the completion of the 1860 census and the election of President Abraham Lincoln, America imploded. Eleven southern ...

Given all of this, it is not entirely surprising that sexual assault of enslaved Black men has failed to garner sustained ...

DALLAS, Feb. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The non-partisan Young Black Lawyers' Organizing Coalition (YBLOC), a democracy organizing network for young Black lawyers and law students, is launching its ...

On Jan. 6, 2026, a group of election conspiracy theorists released a report detailing allegations that the 2020 presidential results in Georgia’s Fulton County were “falsely padded” with questionable ...

Some top state election officials, who run voting across the country, worry that the federal government has become hostile to them and their work. By Nick Corasaniti President Trump’s declaration that ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday claimed that “a state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” as he defended his call for Republicans to nationalize elections. “I want to see elections ...