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A task force of community leaders in Smyrna, Georgia is seeking to have the racist monument Aunt Fanny’s Cabin permanently demolished in order to rid the area of an era we'd all rather not reminisce on.

The president of Meharry Medical College in Tennessee announced Monday that all of its 956 students will be gifted $10,000 each, with no strings attached.

For nearly 10 years U.S. Army veteran Joseph Moore lived a secret double life as a hit man for the Ku Klux Klan, recording conversations with fellow klansmen and sharing what he learned with federal agents trying to crack down on white supremacists in Florida law enforcement.

A Black man ended up dead last year after suffering from a mental episode during his arrest, and to make matters worse the deputy who shot him will not be charged after a grand jury in Texas chose not to indict.

An Alabama judge was removed from the bench for violating several codes of ethics. She called a judge “Uncle Tom,” another one, a “fat b****” and one of her employees “heifer.”⁠

Former President Donald Trump was booed at an event in Dallas Sunday after telling the crowd he received a booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccine.

An entire cemetery for Black people filled with hundreds of graves was just discovered, the fourth in recent years, buried underneath the site of what's now an office building in Clearwater, Florida.

Washington University in St. Louis is the latest to experience racism on its campus, this time in the form of vandalism on a prominent Black History mural that was defaced with symbolism of white supremacy.

Stacey Abrams, who built her national reputation by advocating for voting rights, is calling on Congress to take action on federal voting rules as the Democrat launches a second bid to become Georgia’s governor.

A white man was sentenced to mere probation recently after planting bombs near a busy plaza in downtown Pittsburgh following a Black Lives Matter protest.

While many companies are offering bonuses or higher pay as a way to lure and keep workers, a central Florida business is offering a drawing for two brand new and mortgage-free houses.

Detectives in Tampa are asking Uber to help solve a “grandparent scam” that conned $10,000 from a 75-year-old man and an 82-year-old woman out of $700,000, both told to withdraw money and then give it to someone using the ride-sharing service to pick it up.