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In this Wednesday, June 19, 2019 photo, South Bend Mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg shares a moment with Shirley Newbill, mother of Eric Logan, during a gun violence memorial at the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center in South Bend, Ind. (Michael Caterina/South Bend Tribune via AP)
June 25, 2019

Special prosecutor requested in South Bend police shooting of Black man as Pete Buttigieg grapples with racial backlash

A special prosecutor was requested Monday to investigate the fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer…
Kamala Harris
June 25, 2019

Kamala Harris pressed to get more personal about why she’s running for president

Kamala Harris nodded knowingly when a black woman at a weekend candidate forum recounted watching her mother face racial discrimination…
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 23: Cardi B (C) performs onstage at the 2019 BET Awards at Microsoft Theater on June 23, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images for BET)
June 24, 2019

A list of winners at the 2019 BET Awards

A list of winners at the 2019 BET Awards, which aired live Sunday from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
Cory Booker thegrio.com
June 24, 2019

Cory Booker campaign gets 2020 jolt with pushback against Biden’s segregationists comments

Cory Booker's supporters have spent months waiting for a moment when the charismatic senator could break through a crowded field…
In this March 20, 2019 file photo, Attorney Sheri Johnson leaves the Supreme Court after challenging a Mississippi prosecutor's decision to keep African-Americans off the jury in the trial of Curtis Flowers, in Washington. The Supreme Court is throwing out the murder conviction and death sentence for Flowers because of a prosecutor's efforts to keep African Americans off the jury. The defendant already has been tried six times and now could face a seventh trial. The court's 7-2 decision Friday says the removal of black prospective jurors violated the rights of inmate Curtis Flowers. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
June 24, 2019

Supreme Court tosses Black man’s murder conviction over racial bias in Mississippi

The Supreme Court on Friday threw out the murder conviction and death sentence for a black man in Mississippi because…
In this Wednesday, June 19, 2019 photo, South Bend Mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg shares a moment with Shirley Newbill, mother of Eric Logan, during a gun violence memorial at the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center in South Bend, Ind. (Michael Caterina/South Bend Tribune via AP)
June 24, 2019

Pete Buttigieg criticized at emotional town hall after police shooting of Black man

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg faced criticism Sunday from angry residents of South Bend, Indiana, at an emotional town hall…
In this Oct. 6, 2008 file photo, Artist Kehinde Wiley attends the 2008 National Arts Awards presented by Americans For The Arts at Cipriani's 42nd St. in New York. Wiley will unveil in New York’s Time Square his first monumental public sculpture in response to Confederate sculptures throughout the U.S. Times Square Arts, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Sean Kelly announced Thursday, June 20, 2019 that “Rumors of War” will feature a bronze sculpture of a young, African-American dressed in urban streetwear mounted atop a horse. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)
June 20, 2019

Kehinde Wiley to unveil sculpture in Times Square

Artist Kehinde Wiley will unveil his first monumental public sculpture in New York’s Times Square this fall in response to
In this March 20, 2019 file photo Tamara Lanier attends a news conference near the Harvard Club, in New York. Lanier, of Norwich, Conn., is suing the Harvard University for "wrongful seizure, possession and expropriation" of images she says depict two of her ancestors. Descendants of a Harvard professor who commissioned a series of 1850 photos of slaves say they're backing the lawsuit against the university. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
June 20, 2019

Woman suing Harvard over slave portraits gets key support

A woman suing Harvard University over 19th century images of slaves she says were her ancestors has received the backing…
In this Wednesday, June 19, 2019 photo, South Bend Mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg shares a moment with Shirley Newbill, mother of Eric Logan, during a gun violence memorial at the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center in South Bend, Ind. (Michael Caterina/South Bend Tribune via AP)
June 20, 2019

Police shooting of Black man poses Pete Buttigieg’s biggest 2020 challenge yet

Mayor Pete Buttigieg stood before newly sworn police officers to welcome them to the city's ranks, just as he has…
Tiffany Haddish arrives at the MTV Movie and TV Awards on Saturday, June 15, 2019, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo by Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP)
June 20, 2019

Tiffany Haddish explains why she won’t perform in Georgia

Tiffany Haddish says she chose to join a boycott of Georgia after she read the state's new anti-abortion legislation.Haddish announced…
Musician R. Kelly departs the Leighton Criminal Court building after pleading not guilty to 11 additional sex-related charges, Thursday, June 6, 2019, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Amr Alfiky)
June 20, 2019

Judge says R. Kelly’s lawyers have week to answer sex abuse lawsuit

Attorneys for R. Kelly have one week to respond to a lawsuit alleging sex abuse or face losing the case.Kelly's…
Actor Danny Glover, right, and author Ta-Nehisi Coates, left, testify about reparation for the descendants of slaves during a hearing before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
June 20, 2019

‘Why not now?’ Ta-Nehisi Coates and Danny Glover join lawmakers to debate slavery reparations

The debate over reparations catapulted from the campaign trail to Congress on Wednesday as lawmakers heard impassioned testimony for and…
Former FBI agent William Don Tisaby, left, is accompanied by attorney Jermaine Wooten as he turns himself in at St. Louis Police headquarters on Monday, June 17, 2019, in St Louis. Tisaby has been charged in a perjury investigation related to the prosecution of former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens. (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
June 19, 2019

Activists allege racism in treatment of St. Louis prosecutor

Some black activists in St. Louis say there's an unfair racial component to criticism of St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim…
In this June 17, 2019, photo, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks at the Poor People's Moral Action Congress presidential forum in Washington. Harris is stepping up her outreach to the black community as she campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
June 19, 2019

Kamala Harris boosts outreach to historically Black colleges

[griojw id=”5F6EjJrz” playerid=”GqX43ZoG”]   Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is stepping up her campaign outreach to the black community. The
Dravon Ames, holding microphone, speaks to Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams and Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, as his fiancee, Iesha Harper, right, holds 1-year-old daughter London, at a community meeting, Tuesday, June 18, 2019, in Phoenix. The community meeting stems from reaction to a videotaped encounter that surfaced recently of Ames and his pregnant fiancee, Harper, having had guns aimed at them by Phoenix police during a response to a shoplifting report, as well as the issue of recent police-involved shootings in the community. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
June 19, 2019

Phoenix police chief promises change after video of Black family held at gunpoint at Family Dollar goes viral

Police Chief Jeri Williams promised change in her department after being booed by some of hundreds of people gathered Tuesday…
In this April 26, 2019 file photo, Kyle Kashuv, a survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Fla., speaks at the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action Leadership Forum in Indianapolis. On Monday, June 17, 2019, Kashuv said that Harvard University revoked his acceptance over racist comments he made online and in text messages about two years ago. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)
June 18, 2019

Harvard pulls Parkland student’s admission over racist n-word social media posts

[griojw id=”nlofHG8D” playerid=”GqX43ZoG”]   A survivor of the Parkland school shooting announced Monday that Harvard University withdrew his admission over
Guests gather and listen to community leaders speak during a vigil for Eric Logan Monday, June 17, 2019 on Washington Street in South Bend, Ind. Logan, 54, was killed in South Bend early Sunday after someone called police to report a suspicious person going through cars, according to the St. Joseph County prosecutor's office. (Michael Caterina/South Bend Tribune via AP)
June 18, 2019

2020 Candidate Pete Buttigieg must confront racism after Black father killed by police

[griojw id=”R5yRxaJz” playerid=”GqX43ZoG”]   South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg pulled himself off the presidential campaign trail Monday after the
Terrence Howard and Bryshere Y. Gray in the "The Depth of Grief" episode of EMPIRE airing Wednesday, Oct. 31 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (Photo by FOX via Getty Images)
June 17, 2019

‘Empire’ star Bryshere Gray arrested in Chicago

Bryshere Gray was in Chicago last Thursday when he was pulled over by police for a registration issue, the tags…
Tiffany Haddish
June 17, 2019

Tiffany Haddish cancels Atlanta show over abortion law

Actress and comedian Tiffany Haddish has canceled her upcoming Atlanta performance because of Georgia's new restrictive abortion law.
T.I. at 2018 SXSW on March 17, 2018 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for SXSW)
June 17, 2019

Rapper T.I. and Atlanta church work to end mass incarceration

Music artist T.I. is lending his voice to a project involving the late Martin Luther King Jr.'s home church in…

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