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The shooting deaths of Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas and Biggie Smalls in Los Angeles six months later have always been culturally inseparable

The iHeartRadio 2023 Jingle Ball tour to hit 11-cities including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Boston and Washington.

Duane “Keffe D” Davis was arrested early Friday, although the exact charge or charges were not immediately clear, two officials said.

Competing for Suriname, Nesty was the first Black male swimmer to win Olympic gold when he upset Matt Biondi in Seoul.

The Metropolitan Police’s top officer said the “senseless murder of a 15-year-old girl on her way to school is impossible to comprehend.”

Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, a centrist Democrat who was elected to the Senate in 1992 in the “Year of the Woman,” has died at 90.

A man with ties to the “boogaloo” extremist movement was convicted of murder and attempted murder by a federal jury Tuesday in the 2020 killing of a federal security officer in Northern California during protests against police brutality.

An American soldier who sprinted into North Koreaand was held there for two months before being returned to the U.S. is set to undergo medical testing and extensive questioning about his time in the isolated country before potentially facing charges under the military justice system.

A monument was unveiled Thursday in Detroit to commemorate a white mother who was slain in Alabama while shuttling demonstrators after the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march, along with the Black friend who helped raise her children following her death.

Appeals court blocks hearings on drawing a second majority-Black congressional district in Louisiana
A federal judge’s plan to hold hearings next week to draw up congressional boundary lines giving Louisiana a second majority-Black district was blocked Thursday by a divided appeals court panel.

“We feel like our lives are on the chopping block here in the city of Jackson,” said Mississippi Poor People’s Campaign’s Danyelle Holmes.

In a new study, Black Americans expressed broad concerns about how they are depicted in the news media, with majorities saying they see racist or negative depictions and a lack of effort to cover broad segments of their community.

Deion Sanders has turned the Boulder campus into an unexpected cultural phenomenon, where the vivacity and early success of the team has forced the attention of even those who don’t watch college football, with a lot of support coming from the Black community.

Michigan State fired Mel Tucker on Wednesday, saying the suspended football coach failed to present adequate reasons why he should not be fired for cause after having what he described as consensual phone sex with an activist and rape survivor.

The U.S. has secured the release of a U.S. soldier who sprinted across a heavily fortified border into North Koreamore than two months ago, and he is on his way back to America, officials announced Wednesday. U.S. ally Sweden and rival China helped with the transfer.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said Wednesday she won’t recuse herself from Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case in Washington, rejecting the former president’s claims that her past comments raise doubts about whether she can be fair.

The announcement of Pvt. Travis King’s release surprised observers who had expected the North to drag out his detention.

DeSantis purposely dismantled a Black congressional district, attorney says as trial over map begins
A federal trial opened in Florida in which lawyers say Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis violated the U.S. Constitution by deliberately dismantling a congressional district that favored Black candidates.