ED WHITE, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A judge on Friday approved Detroit’s plan to get out of bankruptcy, ending the largest public filing in U.S....
(The Washington Post) – I knew the day would come, but I didn’t know how it would happen, where I would be, or how I...
ALAN SCHER ZAGIER, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Activists asked Wednesday for advance notice before prosecutors announce whether a Ferguson police officer will face charges...
TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — She’s an under-the-radar contender to become the first black woman to head the Justice Department. Loretta Lynch rarely...
MITCH WEISS, Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the former mayor of North Carolina’s largest city under house arrest until he...
(The Independent) – A recently-updated US Army handbook has been found to include “Negro” as an approved term to use when describing black people. The...
(Salon) – In 1964, there were five black members of the House of Representatives — barely over 1 percent — compared to the 11 percent of...
VERENA DOBNIK, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The silvery, 1,776-foot skyscraper that rose from the ashes of 9/11 to become a symbol of American resilience...
E. EDUARDO CASTILLO, Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s most-wanted couple, accused of running their town as a drug fiefdom and ordering an attack that...
NANCY BENAC, Associated Press Writer There is hope mixed with cynicism and anger vying with optimism as Americans cast ballots across the country. Seventy-one-year-old Jim Brinley...
(Slate) – On Tuesday, Slate and everyone else posted a video of a woman who is harassed more than 100 times by men as she walks around New York City...
(USA Today) – Yesterday, more than one hundred students rallied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to “speak back” to the Wainstein report. The rally...
(The Harvard Crimson) – Two experts in educational inequality exchanged diverging opinions on race-based affirmative action in the college admissions process at a forum at the...
(The Huffington Post) – A report to be presented to the United Nations next month alleges the Chicago Police Department has engaged in “ongoing, pervasive”...
(The Huffington Post) – It took 18 years for DNA evidence to surface that cleared Derrick Williams of a rape and attempted kidnapping in Florida. Prosecutors had...
(Al-Jazeera America) – In the wake of the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, after the Aug. 9 shooting of black teenager Michael Brown by white police officer...
