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The officials will admit there is a lead crisis in the drinking water, in certain parts of the city in Newark, New Jersey. This story …

PHOTO COURTESY OF SPORTSANDPOLITICS.ORG Donald Trump is the Dennis Rodman of politics. To my Democrat friends, now that you have stopped laughing, please continue reading; …

PHOTO COURTESY OF THEBLACKDETOUR.COM NEW YORK (AP) – Althea Gibson basked in a ticker-tape parade in New York a decade before Arthur Ashe won the …

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – A North Carolina man who maintained his innocence even as he served a life sentence for a murder he didn’t commit …

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) _ Rhode Island’s oldest black church is celebrating its 200th anniversary. The Congdon Street Baptist Church opened in 1819 and has had …

The soul-searching taking place over the Aug. 3 El Paso mass shooting in which a 21-year-old white racist killed 22 people and wounded 24 others …

By Nicole “Nikki” Fried Like you, I watched in shock as news unfolded of last weekend’s mass shooting in El Paso – the 250th so …

In America in 2019, there is something fundamentally frightening about leaving your home, because you are not sure you will return. You can be on …

PHOTO COURTESY OF STUFF.CO.NZ CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) – The scars from the nine bullets the gunman fired into Temel Atacocugu run down his left …

Once upon a time, there was a day when I carried Toni Morrison’s luggage! Beloved had just been published and she had been invited to …