The McDonogh Three's story was overshadowed for decades. Hurricane Katrina’s anniversary brings new urgency to their unfinished work.

The annual commemoration of the day in 1865 when formerly enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas, learned of Abraham’s ...

The slain legislator pushed for an array of causes — from voting rights to free school meals — that benefited marginalized communities.

For a year, residents on St. Helena Island, South Carolina, have been blocked from their ancestral cemetery by gates erected by property owners.

A bright young leader with a kind heart, Morehouse College student Kyle Coleman had a promising future. So when his parents, ...

Rehiring notices are being sent to laid-off workers — but concerns about the impact on the Black community remain.

Living in deplorable conditions, some tenants are facing evictions this summer despite having paid their rent.

In response to Trump's military parade and immigration crackdown Atlanta protestors took to the streets just as news was breaking about the death of two lawmakers in Minneapolis.

This story was part of a special Juneteenth project originally published in 2022 with Vox that explored the ongoing struggle for freedom for Black Americans. As the Juneteenth holiday approaches, ...

A document the Department of Health and Human Services sent to lawmakers to support Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ...

A document the Department of Health and Human Services sent to lawmakers to support Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ...