African Americans in the North lived in a strange state of semi-freedom. The North may had emancipated its slaves, but it was not ready to treat the blacks as citizens. . . or sometimes even as ...

When the police chief came to investigate, he concluded that it was done by the same group of neo-Nazis who had been ...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that could bring the country’s premiere Jewish history museum under ...

Reparations activists urge reintroduction of shelved California bills to establish an agency and fund during Newsom’s special ...

The Los Angeles County Commission of Human Relations released its annual hate crime report which found a record number of ...

Two months is far too long for a young Black woman to be missing without any word of progress on solving her case, said ...

Helen LaFrance was a self-taught folk artist primarily focused on memory paintings—vivid depictions drawn from her ...

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Older Black and Latino people are significantly more likely to get diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease than older white people ...

Even though judges in Arizona responded to the law by reducing sentences (to neutralize the impact of parole going away), ...