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Clarence B. Jones, a pivotal legal adviser and speechwriter for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who helped craft the iconic "I Have a Dream" address, died on May 22 at an assisted living facility in Cupertino, California.
Comedian Kevin Hart has publicly defended controversial jokes made at his recent Netflix roast, stating he was not surprised by the racially charged humor and arguing that outrage should be directed at the individual com...
The Congressional Black Caucus has called on hundreds of major U.S. corporations to publicly oppose ongoing Republican-led redistricting efforts in several states, arguing the new congressional maps will dilute Black pol...
A federal court has blocked Alabama from using a newly revised congressional map for the upcoming elections, ruling the plan intentionally discriminates against Black voters.
A new report on women in leadership roles within Canada's sport system reveals a complex picture of progress and setbacks.
A First Nations leadership group marked the fifth anniversary of the announcement that potential graves were found at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School by condemning what it described as efforts to minimize t...
Miami Heat center Bam Adebayo was honored by the NBA on Friday with the league's Social Justice Champion award, receiving the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Trophy, and was named to the All-Defensive Second Team for the 2025-26 sea...
The highest ecclesiastical authorities in Peru held a symbolic reparation ceremony on Saturday for Indigenous people whose land was taken by a now dissolved Catholic group, with a senior Vatican official publicly asking ...
The Supreme Court on Friday questioned whether children from families that have achieved significant educational and economic advancement through reservation policies should continue to receive quota benefits, emphasizin...
Former Health Secretary Wes Streeting has proposed aligning capital gains tax rates with income tax, framing the policy as a "wealth tax that works" central to his pitch for the Labour leadership.
Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences has voted to impose a strict cap on the number of A grades awarded to undergraduates, a major policy shift designed to combat decades of grade inflation.
The National Football League is cooperating with a civil rights investigation by the Florida attorney general’s office, which has issued a subpoena to examine the league’s diversity hiring policies, including the long-st...
An Indigenous woman and her father have reached a settlement with Canadian Tire and a security company over a 2020 incident of racial profiling at a store in Coquitlam, British Columbia.
The NAACP has launched a campaign calling on Black athletes and fans to boycott the athletic programs of public universities in several Southern states, citing concerns over voting rights.
New York City will open its first municipally owned grocery store in the Bronx next year, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Monday, marking a significant step toward his campaign pledge to establish one such store in each o...
A 22-year-old Jewish man was hospitalized after being assaulted by a group of men in north London early Monday morning in an attack police are investigating as an antisemitic hate crime.
A flag bearing two Nazi swastikas surrounding a Star of David, styled to resemble the Israeli flag and incorporating the New York University logo, was briefly raised atop an NYU building in Greenwich Village on Wednesday...
The U.S. Department of Justice announced a settlement with PayPal on Tuesday resolving a federal investigation into the company's 2020 Economic Opportunity Fund, a program that pledged $530 million to support Black- and ...
The U.S. Department of Justice accused Yale School of Medicine on Thursday of illegally considering race in its admissions process, marking the second such allegation against a medical school this month.
King Charles visited Golders Green, a heavily Jewish neighborhood in northwest London, on Thursday to show support for the local community following a series of antisemitic attacks, including a stabbing last month that i...
