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Burkina Faso’s transitional parliament has passed legislation criminalizing conduct deemed to promote LGBTQ practices, CNN reported. The law includes fines, prison terms…
When most people think of Labor Day, they picture parades and barbecues. But for Black America, the struggle behind the holiday has…
Activists behind a national Target boycott say foot traffic has dropped in nearly 2,000 stores since January, proof their pressure is working,…
On this day, Aug. 28, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered while visiting relatives in Mississippi. The Black teenager…
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an immigrant at the center of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, was arrested again after reporting to an ICE…
On Aug. 22, 1989, Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was shot and killed in West Oakland,…
In Texas, Republicans just passed a new congressional map designed to flip five Democratic seats red — a move Democrats call nothing…
On Aug. 19, 1958, the NAACP Youth Council, led by teacher Clara Luper and her students, launched a sit-in at the Katz…
(AURN News) — Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee, the youngest and first African American to hold the post, is running for…
A coalition of civil rights and small-business groups is suing the Trump administration for halting a federal rule designed to prevent lending…
(AURN News) — President Donald Trump is once again targeting federal programs that have long supported the Black community — this time…
Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act was signed into law, the very protections that marched Americans from Selma to the ballot…