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(AURN News) — On Oct. 10, 1927, Hazel Johnson-Brown — the first Black woman to become a U.S. Army general — was…
(AURN News) — The Trump administration has removed several high-ranking Black officials from federal leadership positions, deepening concerns about racial exclusion within…
(AURN News) — On Oct. 7, 1934, playwright, poet and activist Amiri Baraka was born in Newark, New Jersey. Born Everett LeRoi…
(AURN News) — On Oct. 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first Black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court,…
WASHINGTON (AURN News) — Inside a packed room at the 54th Annual Legislative Conference of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation in Washington,…
Assata Shakur, the former Black Liberation Army member convicted in the 1973 murder of a New Jersey state trooper, has died in…
(AURN News) — In Oklahoma, Republican state Sen. Shane Jett filed several pieces of legislation centered on Charlie Kirk, the conservative Turning…
(AURN News) — The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation will use its Veterans Braintrust this week during its 54th Annual Legislative Conference to…
(AURN News) WASHINGTON — AURN is on the scene at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 54th Annual Legislative Conference, one of the…
(AURN News) — Civil rights attorney Ben Crump announced that Colin Kaepernick’s “Know Your Rights Camp Autopsy Initiative” will fund a second…
On Sept. 19, 1963, at the height of the civil rights movement, Iota Phi Theta fraternity was founded on the campus of…
The death of 21-year-old Demartravion “Trey” Reed — a Black student found hanging from a tree on Delta State University’s campus —…