Despite ongoing racial reconciliation efforts in some churches and society in general, a yawning divide still endures between black and white Americans over how Confederate memorials should be treated, a new study from the Public Religion Research Institute finds.
A racially motivated mass shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, sparked a federal hate crime investigation after prompting a lockdown at Edward Waters University, a historically black Christian university whose leader vowed won't be deterred from its mission.
The New York City Council has voted to name a block in Harlem after Elijah Muhammad, the controversial late leader of the Nation of Islam, despite his well-documented history of anti-Semitism, association with neo-Nazis and claim that white people are "devils."
May we rise up as a nation to condemn these evil acts and to demonstrate tangibly that they represent the sentiments of the tiniest, most demented fringe minority. Not on our soil! Not on our watch!
Baylor University plans to erect two new statues on its Waco, Texas, campus in honor of its first African American graduates.
Lifelong Democrat and civil rights attorney Leo Terrell said Thursday that he thinks President Donald Trump has done more in three years for the black community than the Obama-Biden administration accomplished in eight.
Large swaths of American adults have been struggling to pay for necessities like housing and food since the start of the new coronavirus pandemic. But the brunt of the economic fallout from the virus has been more acutely felt among adults with lower incomes, those without a college degree and black and Hispanic Americans.
Phil Vischer, creator of the popular Christian animation "VeggieTales" and voice of Bob the Tomato, has been actively using his platform to address issues of racial injustice. The animator recently released another video responding to questions he’s received from some of his white constituents concerning race in America
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden was being skewered by black Americans and others online Friday after he suggested in an interview with a prominent black New York City radio host that if he struggled to vote for him over President Donald Trump he “ain’t black.”
African Americans who identify as Democrats or lean Democrat in their political views are far less likely than white Democrats to say a person does not need to believe in God to be moral, according to a Pew survey.
