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

Kyren Lacy, seen in College Station, Texas, prior to an October 2024 game between the LSU Tigers and Texas A&M Aggies, died at 24 by suicide in April. (Ella Hall/LSU/University Images via Getty Images ...

Larry Hoover, founder of a notorious Chicago street gang who has spent the past three decades in solitary confinement in federal prison, was granted clemency by President Donald Trump on Wednesday — ...

Read them in our free weekly newsletter. Sign up Underneath oak trees and Spanish moss from Texas to the Carolina coasts, the remains of Black Americans lay in unmarked graves across roadside ...

CLARKSDALE, MISS. – Tyler Yarbrough makes it clear. Sinners and the cultural fest that followed may have thrust Clarksdale into the national spotlight, but this moment represents the culmination of ...

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 ...

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 ...

In cities around the country, June is the designated month to honor the LGBTQ+ experience. But Atlanta — considered widely to be the Black gay mecca — moves to its own beat. Up until 2007, Atlanta’s ...

Iman Phelmon El-Amin (center) accepts an honorary posthumous bachelor's degree from Morehouse College on behalf of his late relative, Dennis T. Hubert, during Morehouse College's commencement ceremony ...

Two men who had been incarcerated in Fulton County Jail for over a year died in custody last week for unrelated reasons. Devin Franklin, movement policy coordinator for the Southern Center for Human ...