At annual legislative conference, Black lawmakers confront Trump-era cuts and civil rights setbacks

The Congressional Black Caucus has gathered for its annual legislative conference in Washington this past week ...
Education Week

Educators’ Political Preferences Don’t Always Reveal Their K-12 Positions (in Charts)

We asked educators which presidential candidate they voted for in the 2024 election. Their responses reflect national survey ...
NPR

The killing of Charlie Kirk adds to a time of political upheaval and violence

The killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk Wednesday at a college in Utah is the latest in a series of politically motivated violent acts just in recent months. Those are only some of the ...
The Grio

‘We refuse to repeat this cycle’: Black Lives Matter vows to reject ‘reactionary violence’ after Charlie Kirk killing

"Vigilante justice has no place in a just society. Not on the left. Not on the right. Not in response to racism, and not in the name of righteousness," said Shalomyah Bowers, a leader of the BLM ...
New York Post

Creepy California serial killer wore white-faced mask during prior burglary spree to hide his black identity, cops say

An alleged serial killer who met his victims on dating apps before savagely robbing and killing them had a lengthy California crime history that included wearing a white-face mask to hide his black ...
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Black Louisiana lawmakers want Murrill to drop ‘political’ arguments in redistricting case

(LOUISIANA ILLUMINATOR) - Black Louisiana state lawmakers want a state judge to force Attorney General Liz Murrill to resume defending the state’s congressional districts currently being challenged ...
Snopes.com

White woman took Black CEO's airplane seat, then discovered he owned airline?

A rumor that circulated online in August 2025 claimed a white woman named Victoria Hartwell refused to move from an airplane seat assigned to a Black CEO named Devon Mitchell. According to the story, ...
The Texas Tribune

In rapidly diversifying Tarrant County, a summer of GOP redistricting hits Black and Latino representation

Support the Tribune now for your chance to win a two-night Fort Worth experience. Despite explosive growth turning Tarrant into a racially diverse swing county, two new political maps will leave it ...
New York Post

One Baghdad afternoon — and its political aftermath — made Blackwater a household name and tarnished four Americans

On a scorching September 2007 Baghdad afternoon, a 19-man convoy of four armored Blackwater trucks rolled into Nisour Square, one of the city’s most congested and volatile intersections. What happened ...
ABC7 San Francisco

Black Bay Area leaders call for unity against ongoing attacks from White House: 'We are not afraid'

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- At the Third Baptist Church in San Francisco, community leaders united to condemn what they called President Donald Trump's ongoing attack on Black people, Black history and ...
Mises Institute

Political Context of Black Suffrage in the Reconstruction Era

One of the main allegations of “racism” made against the South is that white Southerners were historically against black suffrage. As the historian Eric Foner sees it, during the Reconstruction Era ...