Civil rights leaders, community leaders and social media users expressed outrage Monday after a grand jury failed to bring charges against a Cleveland officer in the death of Tamir Rice

City council voted 6-1 to take down the “nuisances” that “have no place in history.”

New Orleans lawmakers are in the midst of considering whether to break with its Confederate past by removing longstanding monuments

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In an op-ed for NewsOne, Benjamin L. Crump, president of the National Bar Association and prominent civil rights attorney, condemns Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia‘s remarks that some African-Americans are hurt by being admitted to top universities and might be better served at “slower-track” ones. The comments, which generated a firestorm of controversy, came last week during […]

Rosalind Brewer, the Black female CEO of Sam's Club, is being accused of racial discrimination against White men after discussing workplace diversity in an interview on CNN, according to Yahoo News.

Veteran writer and producer Ricky L. Blalock is suing CNN for discrimination after the network allegedly only offered promotions and paid on-the-job training to his Caucasian colleagues.

During a hearing for an affirmative action case on Wednesday, conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia suggested that some African-Americans belong at "lesser colleges."

The significance of the 13th Amendment anniversary -- which abolished slavery in most states -- is not lost on us, as we watch the first African-American president deliver these moving remarks.

Ben Carson dismissed the fact that Black men and women are being disproportionately targeted by police, saying he needed more "evidence" that profiling exists in law enforcement.

University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe on Sunday acknowledged problems with racism on campus after Black football players vowed to stop playing until he "resigns."