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(AURN News) — Black freshman enrollment at some of the nation’s most selective universities continues to decline following the Supreme Court’s 2023…
WASHINGTON (AURN News) — The Legal Defense Fund, the NAACP and American Oversight have launched an investigation into a Trump administration proposal…
(AURN News) — Tom Houck, a longtime civil rights activist and former aide to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died…
(AURN News) — Black activists and media figures are urging the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation to reject funding from technology company Palantir.…
(AURN News) — Dr. Richard E. Holmes, the first Black student to enroll at Mississippi State University, died Oct. 16 at age…
(AURN News) — On Oct. 19, 1943, Paul Robeson made history starring in William Shakespeare’s “Othello” at the Shubert Theatre in New…
(AURN News) — On Oct. 16, 1968, American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos made history at the Mexico City Olympics. After…
(AURN News) — A federal appeals court has blocked California from requiring nonuniformed federal agents to display identification, months after a separate…
WASHINGTON (AURN News) — Twenty-two days before the midterm elections, federal agents searched the Washington home of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and…
(AURN News) — Curtis Flowers, a Black man who spent nearly 23 years imprisoned in Mississippi, has died at 56, according to…
WASHINGTON (AURN News) — Programs designed to help Black families become homeowners are facing scrutiny from the Trump administration, and civil rights…
(AURN News) — The family of Renee Good has filed two lawsuits against the U.S. government and federal immigration officials over her…