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Civil rights groups denounce Facebook over hate speech

Facebook keeps telling critics that it is doing everything it can to rid its service of hate, abuse and misinformation.

In risky bid, Trump stokes racial rancor to motivate voters

President Donald Trump is wielding America's racial tensions as a reelection weapon, fiercely denouncing the racial justice ...

Dream owner Loeffler objects to WNBA's social justice plans

Atlanta Dream co-owner Kelly Loeffler is not in favor of the WNBA's social justice plans and has sent a letter to ...

FBI investigating reported assault on Black Indiana man

The FBI said Tuesday it’s investigating the reported assault of a Black man by a group of white men at a southern Indiana ...

Richmond removes statue of Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart

Work crews on Tuesday took down a monument to Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, the third major statue to be cleared away in ...

Betts: Baseball didn't do good job with response to Floyd

Mookie Betts wasn’t moved by Major League Baseball’s response in the wake of George Floyd’s death in police custody, and the ...

'Senseless crime': The victims of July Fourth shootings

A 6-year-old computer whiz. A young mother working for a better home for her kids. An 8-year-old who loved to make dance ...

WNBA players to spotlight Breonna Taylor on jerseys

WNBA players will wear uniforms for the opening weekend of the season featuring Breonna Taylor's name when the league begins ...

Appeals court reverses Wisconsin voting restrictions rulings

A federal appeals court panel upheld a host of Republican-authored voting restrictions in Wisconsin on Monday, handing ...

Trump criticizes Redskins, Indians for weighing name changes

President Donald Trump on Monday criticized a pair of pro sports teams that are considering name changes in the wake of a ...

Reds' Garrett drops fears, speaks out about racial injustice

With so few Black players in the major leagues, Cincinnati Reds reliever Amir Garrett was afraid to talk openly about racial ...

Latino, Black neighborhoods struggle with test disparities

A Latino cook whose co-worker got COVID-19 waited in his truck for a free swab at a rare testing event in a low-income ...

Kaepernick, ESPN team up for documentary series on his life

Colin Kaepernick will be featured in a documentary series produced by ESPN Films as part of a first-look deal with The Walt ...

'Lift Every Voice and Sing' hymn ignites hope across nation

The Black national anthem was born more than a century ago, but the popular hymn within the African American community called ...

Damian Lillard emerges from shutdown ready for playoff push

Grieving the death of a cousin and missing his mother, Damian Lillard struggled emotionally after the NBA shut down because ...

Democrats, Biden look to accelerate Southern political shift

From Mississippi retiring its state flag to local governments removing Confederate statues from public spaces, a bipartisan ...

Facebook groups pivot to attacks on Black Lives Matter

A loose network of Facebook groups that took root across the country in April to organize protests over coronavirus ...

Police: Men yelled racial slurs at Black family in Oregon

Seven men were arrested after police say they taunted a Black family by yelling racial slurs and using Nazi salutes during ...

F1 Drivers all wear "End Racism" T-shirts, but 6 don't kneel

Valtteri Bottas kneeled holding the winners’ trophy at Formula One's season-opening Austrian Grand Prix on Sunday, where the ...

Cosby invokes systemic racism as he fights #MeToo conviction

In a nearly empty Philadelphia courtroom in July 2015, a lawyer for Bill Cosby implored a federal judge to keep the ...