Seventy years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, a case...

Patrick Braxton, claiming to be Newbern, Alabama's inaugural Black mayor, faced disappointment as his plea for a November special election...

After a prolonged legal battle stemming from a class action lawsuit filed in 1968, Hamtramck has finally closed the chapter...

The most conservative appeals court in the United States recently heard arguments in a case involving allegedly discriminatory electoral maps...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday paved the way for Louisiana to use a congressional map in this year's election that...

Perinatal mental illness, encompassing conditions like postpartum depression and psychosis, affects over a quarter (27%) of new and expectant mothers...

For African American communities in New Orleans, access to safe and reliable water is crucial. The D grade for the...

Black women, constituting one in seven women in the United States, play indispensable roles in our communities and workforce. Despite...

Six decades after the desegregation of New Orleans schools, the legacy of resilience and hope endures. Leona Tate, one of...

Springfield’s Black Lives Matter highlights a stark racial gap in homelessness, with Black individuals eight times more likely to experience...