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Malcolm Jenkins doesn't stop working to create change

Malcolm Jenkins is determined to walk his talk. The three-time Pro Bowl safety and two-time Super Bowl champion has been on ...

Jordan announces first donations from $100 million pledge

Hornets owner and six-time NBA champion Michael Jordan has started sharing details of where some of his $100 million pledge ...

Civil rights icon Lewis lauded as hero at Georgia Capitol

John Lewis was lauded as a warrior and a hero during a ceremony Wednesday at the Georgia Capitol, where the civil rights icon ...

Biden vows to fight racial inequality with economic agenda

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden promised Tuesday that his economic agenda would combat long-standing racial ...

For the NBA, it's time to play, kneel and demand change

Miami center Bam Adebayo did not know Breonna Taylor. He never heard of the woman who worked as an emergency room technician ...

Holocaust survivors urge Facebook to remove denial posts

Holocaust survivors around the world are lending their voices to a campaign launched Wednesday targeting Facebook head Mark ...

Trump on his own yet again as he skips farewell to Lewis

One by one, they passed through the grand Capitol Rotunda to pay respects to the civil rights icon. It was a solemn display ...

Masked mourners brave heat, virus fears to honor John Lewis

Mourners braved both coronavirus fears and brutal heat on Tuesday to pay their respects to the late Rep. John Lewis, the ...

'Watchmen' leads charge for Emmy nominations relevance

“Watchmen,” cloaked in superhero mythology and grounded in real-world racism, received a leading 26 nominations Tuesday for ...

Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis lies in state at Capitol

In a solemn display of bipartisan unity, congressional leaders praised Democratic Rep. John Lewis as a moral force for the ...

Twitter faces backlash over handling of anti-Semitic posts

Some Twitter users are staging a 48-hour boycott of the platform over its handling of a stream of anti-Semitic comments that ...

Body of civil rights icon John Lewis crosses Selma bridge

The late U.S. Rep. John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, for the final time Sunday as remembrances ...

From police chief to VP? Inside Val Demings' unlikely path

Val Demings has already been vice president. In 1972, the future Florida congresswoman was a young Black girl struggling to ...

Fight for police-free schools has been years in the making

The group of protesters started out small, just a handful of students who told officials at school board meetings why they ...

Police investigate anti-Semitic tweets by grime artist Wiley

London's police are investigating after a stream of anti-Semitic comments were posted on British grime artist Wiley’s social ...

Black Catholics' history: Will US Catholic schools teach it?

The history of Black Catholics in the U.S. is a dramatic mix of struggles and breakthroughs, but it has been largely ignored ...

Portland struggles with liberal identity under nation's gaze

Images broadcast worldwide of Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler getting tear-gassed alongside protesters made him an overnight ...

Huge Portland protest crowds, standoff with feds go on

Thousands of people gathered in Portland streets for another night of protests Friday, the same day a U.S. judge denied ...

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even ...

Black activists: Portland's focus on feds only aids message

After George Floyd's death at the hands of Minneapolis police, people in Portland came out in droves to protest police ...