
Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger announced new cabinet appointments, naming Delegate Candi Mundon King as secretary of the commonwealth, marking another historic...

Weeks after Hurricane Melissa devastated large sections of Jamaica, residents and members of the diaspora are still confronting widespread damage, power outages, and homelessness while grassroots...

H. Rap Brown, later known as Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a towering figure of the 1960s civil rights and Black Power movements, died at age 82 while...

A statue of civil rights pioneer Barbara Rose Johns was unveiled in the U.S. Capitol, representing Virginia and honoring her 1951 student protest that helped shape...

As festive lights go up and holiday shopping surges, so do scams — from forged delivery texts to cloned-voice calls, fake charities, fraudulent gift-card schemes, and...

Pamela A. Smith, the first Black woman to permanently lead the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, announced she will resign effective December 31, 2025 — bringing to...

The attacks on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have never been solely about cost or coverage — race has always been under the surface. From its...

Starting in 2026, the National Park Service will no longer offer free admission on Martin Luther King Jr. Day or Juneteenth — two holidays that honor...

A new study shows a startling 84 percent of teens describe the news media as “fake,” “chaotic,” or “lies,” while only 9 percent use positive words...

Black veterans are more likely than their white counterparts to experience PTSD, yet many face cultural stigma, systemic disparities and barriers to care that hinder access...