Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...

Segregation was an impetus for me. It was my life. It's my lived experience,” said Ninth Circuit Judge Johnnie Rawlinson. “No one can take that away because I lived it, and it's my story. And we can't ...

San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria on Friday announced he is abandoning the proposed homeless mega-shelter on Kettner & Vine. A ...

February is Black History Month, a time to earn more about the history of African Americans. It was founded by the ...

A U.S. judge will consider on Monday the fate of President Donald Trump's buyout offer to two million federal workers as ...

Trump’s inauguration week order was already on temporary hold nationally because of a separate suit brought by four states in ...

The Racial Justice Act allowed people to challenge their death sentences if they could demonstrate race played a role in ...

LONDON (AP) — The head of the U.N. AIDS agency said Monday the number of new HIV infections could jump more than six times by ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

(AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a second nationwide ... War to ensure citizenship for former slaves and free African Americans. It states: “All persons born or naturalized in ...