1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (843+ words) It was bad enough that Black veterans who served in World War II returned to a country that denied them the benefits offered to white veterans, including housing and educational opportunities, resulting in a loss of generational wealth still affecting…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (619+ words) Atlanta police have launched an investigation after a rope resembling a noose was found hanging from a tree outside the city's first Black history museum. Viral cellphone footage showed a long rope with a small loop tied at one of…...

4+ mon, 3+ day ago   (571+ words) A Black waitress at a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Tennessee said she faced heinous racial harassment during her 10 years on the job from white coworkers and supervisors who were never held accountable for their actions. Roberta Mendez, who started working…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (597+ words) A white man lost it in a Walgreens after noticing the Mahogany line of greeting cards, calling the cards specifically designed for people of color "whack." His brief rant launched a social media firestorm. What's probably the weirdest thing about…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (663+ words) A former General Mills employee in Minnesota has filed a lawsuit accusing the food giant of racial discrimination and retaliation after he was fired earlier this year for objecting to Black History Month flyers in the workplace that he said…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (460+ words) At Graball Landing along the Tallahatchie River near Glendora, Mississippi, where Emmett Till's badly beaten corpse was found 70 years ago, there have been multiple attempts to erect a monument in memory of that horrific moment in time that would change…...

6+ mon, 4+ week ago   (845+ words) Chalk up another cherished American symbol that has quietly vanished under Donald Trump's watch. A bust of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., once prominently displayed in the Oval Office, has been removed under Donald Trump's presidency amid a broader'rollback of…...

6+ mon, 4+ week ago   (613+ words) A 12-year veteran of the Philadelphia Fire Department has filed a formal complaint accusing the city of racial discrimination. Bariq Fluellen, who has served since 2013 and wears his hair in locs as part of his cultural and religious identity as…...

7+ mon, 3+ day ago   (512+ words) In a weird way, the biggest perceived roadblocks to former Clayton County, Georgia, Sheriff Victor Hill's just-announced run for Congress could end up being political assets. The president is a convicted felon, after all. Hill'was convicted'in 2022 on federal civil rights…...

7+ mon, 6+ day ago   (459+ words) An Oregon jury recommended this week that a judge grant a Black firefighter $275,000 for the racial discrimination he faced after he suffered years of racist comments and jokes from his supervisors and colleagues, and was denied a promotion opportunity. Jason…...