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January 21, 2020

Program features teen who began book club for black students

When a black student from St. Louis created a book club because didn’t find books at his majority-white school’s library that ...

January 21, 2020

2020 Democratic contenders link arms in MLK Jr. Day march

Democratic presidential candidates hit pause on their recent feuds Monday as they walked shoulder to shoulder through the ...

January 21, 2020

Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Faith, politics mix on holiday

Against the backdrop of a presidential election year, Monday's Martin Luther King Jr. holiday found leaders still wrestling ...

January 20, 2020

2020 Watch: Will impeachment change the primary?

Presidential politics move fast. What we're watching heading into a new week on the 2020 campaign: ___ Days to Iowa caucuses: ...

January 19, 2020

Bloomberg offers plan to tackle racial economic inequality

Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg made a pitch to African American voters the day before the national ...

January 18, 2020

Buttigieg trying now to make it to SC for MLK Day events

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, who has been criticized for his slow outreach to blacks and other ...

January 17, 2020

Trump's black voter outreach looks in part to the pews

In the eight years since he became a pastor at First Immanuel Baptist Church, Todd Johnson says he's seen his congregation's ...

January 17, 2020

Records: Congress candidate Mfume left NAACP under a cloud

As former NAACP leader Kweisi Mfume seeks to regain a congressional seat he once held, The Baltimore Sun reports that records ...

January 17, 2020

Trump campaign tries robust outreach to expand his appeal

Selfies on a “Women for Trump” bus tour through Iowa. Volunteer training at a “Black Voices for Trump” organizing session in ...

January 17, 2020

Joe Biden boosts Super Tuesday case with Sewell endorsement

Joe Biden has secured a weighty Deep South endorsement for his presidential campaign, with Alabama’s lone Democratic House ...

January 17, 2020

Rep. Ayanna Pressley goes public with alopecia and baldness

Rep. Ayanna Pressley, whose hair twists have been an inspiration to young girls and part of her personal identity and ...

January 17, 2020

LSU football team getting White House visit in quickly

President Donald Trump will welcome the Louisiana State University football team to the White House on Friday after the ...

January 15, 2020

Black prosecutors back Gardner, say they've faced resistance

One day after St. Louis’ top prosecutor filed a federal lawsuit alleging a concerted and racist conspiracy to push her out ...

January 15, 2020

California housing crisis: Oakland moms evicted by deputies

Homeless women ordered by a California judge last week to leave a vacant house they illegally occupied in Oakland for two ...

January 15, 2020

Debate to highlight vanishing diversity in Democratic field

A half dozen White House hopefuls will gather on a debate stage in Des Moines, Iowa, on Tuesday night at a critical moment ...

January 14, 2020

Students charged with shouting racial slurs sue UConn

Two University of Connecticut students arrested for shouting a racial slur outside a campus apartment complex sued the school ...

January 14, 2020

Questions of racism linger as Harry, Meghan step back

When accomplished, glamorous American actress Meghan Markle married Prince Harry in 2018, she was hailed as a breath of fresh ...

January 14, 2020

Cannes does 'right thing' in appointing Spike Lee to lead

American director Spike Lee will lead the jury of this year's Cannes Film Festival, the first black person to hold the post ...