A federal court this month dealt a blow to Texas’ efforts to disenfranchise voters of color.

Fifty years ago this month, a year to the day before he was murdered, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King ...

Three of Donald Trump’s latest ploys to distract attention from Russiagate have failed.

Fifty years ago on April 4, 1967, our prophet Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave the historic speech “Beyond Vietnam: ...

The full story of what happened in the al-Jidideh neighborhood isn’t yet clear, but the toll is unmistakable.

Mayor Wheeler recently announced that the city of Portland, in protest of Wells Fargo’s financial involvement with the Dakota Access ...

Tuesday, April 4 was Equal Pay Day. Never heard of it? If you’re a working woman or someone who cares ...

More than most other communities, the future of African Americans’ rights and opportunities hang on the confirmation of a Supreme ...

While the media reports low unemployment and a rising stock market, the reality is that almost 20 percent of the ...

Wearing a safety pin, if you haven’t heard, lets anxious families who fled cruel states, failed economies, or rising oceans, ...

Make no mistake, Trump’s lies are carefully told to generate hostility toward Muslims and immigrants. Worse still, they conceal a ...

Twenty-four hours after the election of Donald Trump as this nation’s 45th president, the stock prices of privately run prisons ...

The recent hateful tirade of failed New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino stands out.

The National Urban League's take on the electoral college debate

We have the power to define patriotism in the 21 Century and there's no room in that definition for bigotry.