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It happened on the 2100 block of West Pratt Street just before 7 a.m..

Edward Cagney Mathews was finally arrested for harassing his neighbor and calling him the N-word on video, but there was no hate crime charge and the apparent white supremacist's close association with police in New Jersey is being questioned.

The one-time “America’s Dad” is out of prison, but that is not stopping him from speaking out through social media and a spokesperson on things that anger him. Bill Cosby, 83, is now coming to the defense of his ‘Cosby Show’ and ‘Cosby’ co-star Phylicia Rashad after put out a tweet celebrating Cosby’s release. “FINALLY!!!! […]

The topic of respectability politics arose again this weekend after Turkey Leg Hut, a popular soul food restaurant in Houston, Texas, unveiled a dress code policy that spurred anti-Black accusations aimed at Black patrons.

A Questlove Jawn, the documentary dazzles viewers in the nearly two-hour exploration into the overlooked festival in the summer of 1969.

Independence Day, in the midst of attacks on democracy, highlights the hypocrisy of America.

There are still many parallels today with what Frederick Douglass described in his speech to white America delivered on July 5, 1852.

The new frontier is digital, which means newly blazed trails have fewer highway robbers (who are often cops) that can select victims based on race. The decentralized market makes it something governments can’t easily turn into pyramids of caste inequality.

Phylicia Rashad issued a second apology Friday, this time directing her statement to Howard University students and alumni after tweeting an eye-brow-raising response to Bill Cosby's overturned conviction.

As justice for the murder of Nipsey Hussle continues to get underway, the new lawyer for his alleged killer, Eric Holder, is now claiming his client has a history of mental illness that could affect his conviction.