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(AURN News) — On Oct. 13, 1914, Garrett Morgan, a pioneering Black American inventor, received a U.S. patent for his safety hood,…
(AURN News) — On Oct. 12, 1908, pioneering novelist and journalist Ann Petry was born in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. Before becoming a…
(AURN News) — Curtis Flowers, a Black man who spent nearly 23 years imprisoned in Mississippi, has died at 56, according to…
WASHINGTON (AURN News) — CNN, MS NOW and Politico are suing President Donald Trump and senior administration officials, asking a federal judge…
WASHINGTON (AURN News) — The Trump administration is proposing an IRS rule targeting private schools and colleges that use race in admissions,…
(AURN News) — Aug. 6 marks the 61st anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark 1965 law that outlawed many discriminatory…
(AURN News) — Booker Rowe, the first Black musician to perform with The Philadelphia Orchestra, died July 31 at age 85, according…
(AURN News) — On June 14, 1877, Henry Ossian Flipper became the first African American to graduate from West Point. Born enslaved…
(AURN News) — Gerald Talbot, a civil rights trailblazer and the first Black person elected to the Maine Legislature, died May 9…
(AURN News) — A new national poll is putting hard numbers to what farmers have been saying: the Iran war is hitting…
(AURN News) — Gov. Jeff Landry, R-La., has suspended all six congressional primaries scheduled for May 16 after a 6-3 Supreme Court…
WASHINGTON (AURN News) — Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are warning that a recent Supreme Court voting rights decision could significantly…