Nation May 22 Buffalo mass shooting opens longstanding wounds of Black trauma and neglect Just over a week ago, a white gunman in body armor killed 10 Black shoppers and workers at the supermarket that has been temporarily closed. Three others were injured in the attack, which federal authorities are investigating as a hate…
Nation May 20 First funerals held for Buffalo shooting victims The first of several funerals for 10 Black people massacred at a Buffalo supermarket was planned for Friday, one day after victims' families called on the nation to confront the threat of white supremacist violence.
Nation May 20 After Buffalo, civil rights leaders pitch anti-hate plans The nation’s oldest civil rights organization said it will propose a sweeping plan meant to protect Black Americans from white supremacist violence in response to a hate-fueled massacre that killed 10 Black people in Buffalo, New York, last weekend.
Politics Mar 26 Black women feel sting of ‘traumatizing’ Jackson hearings The federal judge had to endure hours of public scrutiny from skeptics, namely the Republican senators who are erecting a wall of opposition to her landmark nomination, the first in the court’s 233-year history, and may vote en bloc against her confirmation.
Politics Mar 23 WATCH: Jackson tears up as Sen. Booker says she’s earned her historic Supreme Court nomination Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey drew tears from Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at her Supreme Court hearing with the words, "You are worthy," and others likes them.
Nation Mar 15 AP Poll: Many Black Americans pessimistic about racial equality in policing Few Americans believe there has been significant progress over the last 50 years in achieving equal treatment for Black people in dealings with police and the criminal justice system, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for…
Nation Mar 09 Number of hate groups declined in 2021, but Proud Boys chapters surging, says SPLC The number of white nationalist, neo-Nazi and anti-government extremist groups across the U.S. fell for a third straight year in 2021, even as some groups were reinvigorated by the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol last year.
World Feb 11 At the Olympics, where are the Black figure skaters? There are no Black athletes competing in figure skating for the Americans this year.
Nation Nov 11 Veterans Day legislation targets GI Bill racial inequities In honor of Veterans Day, a group of Democratic lawmakers is reviving an effort to pay the families of Black veterans who fought on behalf of the nation during World War II for benefits they were denied or prevented from…
Nation Oct 15 In trial over Arbery death, racial reckoning looms large As three white men prepare to stand trial in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, many in the slain Black man’s Georgia hometown see the case as a reckoning for the local justice system.