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Sanders gets endorsements from 7 black S. Carolina lawmakers

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Thursday announced endorsements from seven black lawmakers in the ...

Booker rolls out black lawmakers' endorsement in S. Carolina

Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker is announcing backing from a slate of black elected officials in the crucial ...

Review: New doc shows how Beyoncé changed Coachella, forever

Beyoncé is extremely private, and only lets you know what she wants you to know, when she wants you to know it — typically, ...

Beyonce

Beyoncé drops surprise new album

Beyoncé has surprised her fans by releasing a soundtrack to her Netflix documentary "Homecoming." The 37-year-old superstar ...

Emotional eulogies highlight funeral of SC's Fritz Hollings

As a college student fighting for racial equality in the early 1960s, Jim Clyburn was invited to the office of then-Gov.

Officials say evidence points to church fire suspect

The white man charged in the burnings of three Louisiana black churches faces a mountain of evidence tying him to the crimes, ...

Mourners and friends pay homage to Fritz Hollings

As a line of mourners paid tribute Monday to former Sen. Ernest F. "Fritz" Hollings, 97-year-old Bishop Frederick Calhoun ...

Dana Canedy

The Latest: Reuters: We'll celebrate when reporters are free

The Latest on the Pulitzer Prizes (all times local): 7 p.m. Reuters' leaders say they're proud that the news service won ...

David Brion Davis, scholar of slavery, dead at 92

David Brion Davis, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who documented the centrality of slavery in Western culture through a ...

Students say gym teacher had black kids research slave games

A Wisconsin middle school gym teacher has been placed on indefinite leave while district officials look into claims that she ...

Morehouse College to admit transgender men starting in 2020

The country's only all-male historically black college will begin admitting transgender men next year, marking a major shift ...

Activists: Cop's shooting of white woman treated differently

When an unarmed white woman who called 911 to report a crime was fatally shot by a black, Somali American police officer in ...

Facebook names PayPal exec to board; Netflix CEO leaving

Facebook is nominating to its board of directors a PayPal executive who recently served as finance chief of the charitable ...

Shock at arrest of deputy's son in black church fires

Authorities said he had no known criminal record. A friend described him as an introverted animal lover who showed no ...

Authorities say deputy's son behind fires at black churches

The suspect in a string of fires that destroyed three black churches in rural Louisiana is the white son of a sheriff's ...

Man charged with cyber threats against Jews, Muslims, blacks

A Pennsylvania man created a digital image of himself pointing an AR-15 rifle at a group of praying Jewish men and posted it ...

Donald Trump

Poll: Most Americans say Trump makes race relations worse

More than half of Americans say President Donald Trump has made race relations worse during his time in the White House, and ...

UK soap includes black family for 1st time in 60 years

The long-running British TV soap "Coronation Street" is welcoming its first black family in its 59-year history. The soap ...

Bernie Sanders, Al Sharpton

Democratic White House hopefuls tout agendas to black voters

Democratic presidential candidates on Friday touted their plans on criminal justice reform, the study of reparations and ...

Tan France

'Queer Eye' star France bridges divides on TV, in real life

The Netflix show "Queer Eye " caught on by doing something unusual: creating reality TV that touches on some of the country's ...