Governor Gavin Newsom just signed a state budget that omitted taxpayer funding of California's ethnic studies graduation ...

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A bus parked outside the Palatine Park District Community Center this week is taking visitors on a virtual trip through history, teaching lessons about the Civil Rights Movement and the Holocaust that ...

Redistricting efforts across the South could mean about a third fewer Black members of Congress, the Congressional Black Caucus has warned, and a correspondingly large drop in Black power in ...

T here was a lot going on in the late-Sixties and Seventies. I was very involved, doing a lot of marching. There was a lot of inequality, and it needed to be fixed. I’ve always been one for love, ...

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The conventional liberal take on the Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais to limit the use of race in drawing congressional districts is that it is a defeat for minority political influence.

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New Curtin University-led research has used a radio telescope that spans Earth to snap images that measure the immense power of jets from black holes, confirming scientists' theories of how black ...