Tag: black

(AURN News) — Gerald Talbot, a civil rights trailblazer and the first Black person elected to the Maine Legislature, died May 9…

(AURN News) — A Virginia Supreme Court ruling handed down this morning could set back Black political representation for years. The state’s…

(AURN News) — Quentin Wiltz has become the first Black mayor in Pearland, Texas, history following a landmark victory in a city…

(AURN News) — Federal agents raided the Portsmouth office of Virginia state Sen. L. Louise Lucas on Tuesday, an African American lawmaker…

(AURN News) — A political and racial battle is unfolding in Tennessee over a proposed congressional map that critics say targets Black…

(AURN News) — On May 6, 1931, baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays was born in Westfield, Alabama. Mays began his professional…

(AURN News) — A new national poll is putting hard numbers to what farmers have been saying: the Iran war is hitting…

(AURN News) — Tennessee Republicans are moving forward with a redistricting plan that critics say could eliminate the state’s only majority-Black congressional…

(AURN News) — Ronald Smothers, a veteran journalist who spent 35 years at The New York Times covering protest, politics and racial…

(AURN News) — A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to explain why it seized election records from majority-Black Fulton County,…

(AURN News) — On May 1, 1950, Gwendolyn Brooks was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her book “Annie Allen,” becoming the first…

(AURN News) — Gov. Jeff Landry, R-La., has suspended all six congressional primaries scheduled for May 16 after a 6-3 Supreme Court…