“The Department of Education is on fire,” added Johnson, who moved from Atlanta to Maryland’s majority-Black Prince George’s ...

How campus police agencies at Illinois’ four-year public colleges have spent years stopping Black drivers, even as the overall number of stops has declined. Michael Burton was stopped by Southern ...

The hit movie "Sinners" has made $161 million at the box office, but residents of Clarksdale, Mississippi, where the film is based, are unable to see it because there are no open theaters in town.

As infectious diseases like measles, salmonella, and hepatitis quietly spread across the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has gone largely silent. Of particular concern for Atlanta ...

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Kathy Scott-Lykes lost her son 35-year-old son, Jarvis Lykes, who was killed by a Georgia State Patrol trooper while driving to work on Dec. 29, 2017. (Maansi Srivastava for The 19th) Adrienne Hood ...

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A mural painted on Twee's Foods Store in Houston honors George Floyd. The U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division has said it plans to withdraw pending federal lawsuits against the ...

As Atlanta Public Schools are set to close for summer break next week, one of the main questions on Kimberly Duke’s mind is how she will feed her children. The mother of 10, and executive director of ...

Read them in our free weekly newsletter. Sign up Last September, at his graduation from Northwestern University, Michael Broadway reconnected with his mother, Elizabeth, for the first time in two ...

Jack O'Connell (from left), Omar Benson Miller, Wunmi Mosaku, Ryan Coogler, Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Jayne Lawson, Miles Caton, Li Jun Li and Delroy Lindo, attend the "Sinners" European ...

A 6-year-old Black girl was called a monkey, the N-word, and physically assaulted by her classmates at Ashford Park Elementary School in DeKalb County, according to a federal civil rights lawsuit ...