On Dec. 4, 2006, six Black teenagers, now known as the Jena Six were accused of beating up a fellow white student Justin Barker, who was hospitalized and suffered a swollen eye and a concussion ...

15 Cents on the Dollar: Wealth Gap Between Black & White Americans, Explained. Clip: 6/20/2024 | 18m 20s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Nearly 160 years later after the end of slavery in the U.S ...

The Black American tradition of spending New Year’s Eve in prayer and fellowship dates all the way back to the Civil War. It’s deeply rooted in the long-awaited dawn of freedom for enslaved ...

As for education, Black students made up just 6% of the total enrollment in Austin Independent School District in the 2019-20 school year, but accounted for more than 17% of those referred to law ...

As one might expect, Haygood begins his overview with the 1915 release of “The Birth of a Nation,” the notorious D.W. Griffith movie about the aftermath of the Civil War in which, as Haygood ...

Fifteen years ago, Barack Obama was inaugurated as America’s first Black president “People realized we may not see anything like this again," says former campaign and White House staffer ...

In March, a white shop owner on Detroit’s west side killed a 20-year-old Black man named John Christian. Christian tried to intervene when the shop owner accused a child of stealing a 12-cent ...