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April 8, 2022
A disgraced former Baltimore Police Sgt. was a key witness this week against his ex-partner in a corruption trial.
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April 8, 2022
Apple will take on the story of Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton for a limited series that has Don…
April 8, 2022
A Missouri grandmother has made history as the first African American elected to city council in Hazelwood. 
April 8, 2022
The Las Royal Twins page already has over 60,000 followers supporting Amara La Negra's "tumultuous journey" to motherhood.
April 8, 2022
A new billboard in Owensboro, Kentucky — a town with only 4,000 Black residents out of 60,000 — calls for…
April 8, 2022
Quintez Brown's lawyer is calling on the young activist's supporters to protest outside the federal courthouse at 1 p.m. today.
April 8, 2022
Richard Bernard Moore has been on death row for over 20 years after he was convicted of killing a convenience…
April 8, 2022
Last month, Nyla Hayes' "Long Neckie Lady" portrait sold on Instagram for $6,621.70. In February, she sold another piece for…
April 7, 2022
Rap pioneer The Kidd Creole from Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five was convicted Wednesday in the stabbing death of…
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April 7, 2022
Two Black coaches, Steve Wilks and Ray Horton, have joined Brian Flores’ class-action suit against the NFL.
April 7, 2022
Earlier this year, the AMC Church halted pension payouts to its thousands of retired pastors, bishops and others.
April 7, 2022
A Virginia 10th-grader is being sued by his former history teacher for allegedly harassing the longtime educator with acts of…
April 7, 2022
The Barbados-born singer-entrepreneur earned her way onto the Forbes list due largely to her Fenty Beauty and Fenty Skin brands.
April 7, 2022
Louisiana House Bill 729, proposed by state Rep. Royce Duplessis, passed with bipartisan support in a 75-21 vote.
April 7, 2022
Many universities in the state had already been removing Confederacy symbols, but the 2020 protests helped accelerate the process.
April 7, 2022
A 20-year-old Louisiana man was shot by a sheriff's deputy after an accident left the vehicle in which he was…
April 7, 2022
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed the bipartisan legislation, which expands the number of paid state holidays from 12 to 13.
April 6, 2022
Valerie Sheares Ashby is set to make history as the next president of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC). 
April 6, 2022
NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar apologized for recent comments criticizing current Los Angeles Lakers star, LeBron James.
April 6, 2022
Milwaukee elected its first Black mayor with Cavalier Johnson's historic win in the special election that will see him serve…