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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is kicking off a weekend commemoration 50 years since the pivotal Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights marches in Alabama with a town hall meeting at a historically black college in South Carolina. Obama’s visit to Benedict College in Columbia comes in his first trip to South Carolina as president. The White […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia police are mourning the death of an officer who was shot in the head and killed after he and his partner exchanged gunfire with two suspects trying to rob a video game store. Police said Thursday the slain officer, Robert Wilson III, fired back even as he was being shot by […]
Blindsided by the furor his comments provoked on the Right and Left, neurosurgeon Ben Carson apologized Wednesday for saying that homosexuality is a choice. The…
A year after transgender woman Islan Nettles was killed in New York, an arrest has finally been made. According to the New York Daily News, James Dixon was charged with…
In the aftermath of an explosive and scathing Department of Justice report alleging blatant discrimination, bias and racial stereotyping in the Ferguson, Mo. Police Department, a police official…
Fulton County officials in Georgia are investigating a shooting that left a 22-year veteran officer dead late Tuesday night. The officer was shot during an…
Let Girls Learn officially launched at a special presentation at The White House on Tuesday. Let Girls Learn is a global effort to promote education…
What happens when rumors surface that a historic institute of higher education might be closing amid financial reasons? Cue upset Alumni, disappointed and confused students and a stressed Administration. Such is the case for South Carolina State University. In an unlikely move, Dr. Thomas Elzey, the school’s President, isn’t suing an outside entity he’s suing his […]
Days before the nation acknowledges the 50 years that have passed since peaceful civil rights demonstrators were brutality beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, a new…
One Black gay man has shared his thoughts on why Patricia Arquette’s call for wage equality may not be the most pressing matter for women…
A Florida man is facing hate crime charges after hitting a black man with a bottle during a bar fight, the Daytona Beach News Journal…
Deonte Hoard was only 17, but he already had a clear idea of what he wanted to do in life: Go to college and play…
