He didn’t trust police but sought their help anyway. Two days later, he was dead
PATERSON, N.J. — Jameek Lowery entered the dimly lit lobby of the city’s police headquarters in a panic. He was…
Last 2 Mississippi ex-officers to be sentenced for torturing 2 Black men in racist assault
JACKSON, Miss. — Sentencing concludes Thursday with the last two of six white former officers in Mississippi who pleaded guilty…
Sentencing continues for deputies who tortured 2 Black men in racist assault
JACKSON, Miss. — Sentencing continues Wednesday for white former law enforcement officers in Mississippi who pleaded guilty last year to…
6 former Mississippi law officers to be sentenced for torture of 2 Black men
JACKSON, Miss. — Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal…
Black soldiers are honored, name by name, at a Civil War battlefield
VICKSBURG, Miss. — Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in…
Georgia county seeking to dismiss lawsuit by slave descendants over rezoning of their island homes
SAVANNAH, Ga. — County commissioners in Georgia are asking a judge to throw out a lawsuit by Black residents descended…
Biden declares emergency over lead in water in US Virgin Islands
President Joe Biden declared an emergency over lead-in-water contamination in the U.S. Virgin Islands earlier this week after tests on…
Newly empowered Virginia Democrats nominate the state’s first Black House speaker, Don Scott
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia’s state House will soon have its first Black speaker in its more than 400-year history after…
A small venture capital player becomes a symbol in the fight over corporate diversity policies
NEW YORK — A venture capital firm that has backed buzzy new companies like restaurant chain Slutty Vegan and beauty…
A Supreme Court redistricting ruling gave hope to Black voters. They’re still waiting for new maps
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s decision siding with Black voters in an Alabama redistricting case gave Democrats and voting rights…