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The mobilization effort was swift once it became clear that Black Georgians stood to lose political representation.

LaTosha Brown and other voting rights advocates sprang into action after Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp on May 13

What should have been a fun-filled holiday weekend for college student Nolan Xavier Wells turned into a massive search for the 18-year-old.

Local news outlet WLOX in Biloxi, Mississippi, reported Monday afternoon that the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department confir...

When Caleb Roberts moved from Milwaukee to Texas, he knew the story of Black people in Dallas being pushed out for generations.

In Milwaukee, he helped to stop a $1 billion highway project that threatened to gentrify his neighborhood after he had already seen it happen across the country.

During the 20th century, across Dallas, communities founded by for...

Black farmers like Sharon Mallory can finally get some relief after a judge ruled to restore millions of dollars in grants.

Earlier this year, the Trump administration yanked the money away from organizations led by and in support of Black farmers.

Mallory’s organization, the 2020 Farmers Cooperative, promised to purchase equipment and land an...

WASHINGTON — On a recent summer day outside Dunbar High School, Jamiya and Jamiyan Simmons reminisced about early-morning Sunday rituals. The 17-year-old twins would wake up to go-go classics like UCB’s “Sexy Lady” and clean the house with the music blasting from their grandmother’s stereo.

For nearly 50 years, go-go has been more than music for Bl...