A woman was hired to investigate racial harassment after a suicide. Then she encountered it herself

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Black woman hired by a northern Utah school district to…

At Florida’s only public HBCU, students are wary of political influence on race education

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A core mission of Florida A&M University from its founding over a…

Missouri school board that previously rescinded anti-racism resolution drops Black history classes

O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A conservative-led Missouri school board has voted to drop elective courses on…

A military-themed brewery wants to open in a big Navy town. An ex-SEAL is getting in the way

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A former U.S. Navy SEAL who says he shot Osama bin Laden…

Georgia county seeking to dismiss lawsuit by slave descendants over rezoning of their island homes

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — County commissioners in Georgia are asking a judge to throw out a…

Incoming Philadelphia mayor taps the city’s chief of school safety as next police commissioner

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia Mayor-elect Cherelle Parker, who won her post by promising gun-violence-weary residents to…

LSU and Tulane are getting $22 million to lead group effort to save the Mississippi River Delta

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana State University and Tulane University are receiving a $22 million award…

Louisiana was open to Cancer Alley concessions. Then EPA dropped its investigation

For more than a year, the Environmental Protection Agency investigated whether Louisiana officials discriminated against Black…

NY Attorney General Letitia James has a long history of fighting Trump and other powerful targets

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Letitia James fixated on Donald Trump as she campaigned for New York…

4 in 5 Black adults see racist depictions in the news either often or sometimes, says new study

NEW YORK (AP) — In a new study, Black Americans expressed broad concerns about how they…