During Black Music Month, a look back at Ray Charles’ 2001 World Series performance of “America the Beautiful” and how his ...

The United Negro College Fund has asked the public for help to pass historic multi-million-dollar legislation that would undergird infrastructure projects at HBCUs across the nation. The IGNITE HBCU ...

I do not even pledge allegiance easily. Allegiance to what? To two nations, one Black and one White, under whose God, divisible, with justice for some? We are asked to place hands over hearts and ...

After former President Carter used the cancer drug, Keytruda, cancer patients across the United States had one request for their doctors: "I want what Jimmy Carter had." But not everyone who wanted ...

“This is an economic engine, not just for the South Side of Chicago … most certainly here, but it’s going to be an engine for the city and the region. It’s going to be a beacon of hope to the world at ...

There’s a somber scene in a new documentary about Patrick Kelly, where executive producers Jess Manning and Ray Cornelius are at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center, about to dive into ...

There is a dangerous myth embedded in the fight for reproductive justice: that the battle is solely about women, or even solely about those who can become pregnant. It is not. It is equally about men, ...

The party of Andrew Jackson has spent a decade running from him. It should keep the two things he got right. I was 14 the first time I raised my hand to volunteer. I was short for my age. I had a bad ...

As a long-time death penalty abolitionist, I’ve often compared the death penalty in America to a train with no brakes: Once the machinery starts moving, it becomes extraordinarily difficult to stop.

“[N]either can we deny or diminish the delay with which both society and the Church came to denounce the scourge of slavery … This constitutes a wound in Christian memory, one from which we cannot ...

Dr. Ron Daniels, leader of the Institute of the Black World, invited us to go to explore the situation since the total blockade of their nation by the Trump Administration, led by Secretary Marco ...

Democratic U.S. Rep. Christian Menefee defeated U.S. Rep. Al Green to represent a newly drawn congressional district that encompasses both of their current Houston-area districts, effectively ending ...