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Bryant Lee, an 18-year-old football standout, was fatally shot at a graduation party in Baton Rouge on Friday.

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Cheryl Boone Isaacs will step down as president of the Academy’s Board of Governors.

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The Sandra Bland Act, which was passed by the Texas Senate, has received criticism for being weakened.

In light of vocalist Earnest Pugh’s success and inspiring career in gospel music, Houston and the Honorable Mayor Sylvester Turner, will host a special ceremony to commemorate Pugh’s eleventh Billboard Top 20 radio single, “I Need You to Breathe.” Pugh makes history as no other Houston recording artist has earned as many Billboard Gospel Airplay chart […]

An unidentified teacher at Apex County Middle School in North Carolina was suspended after using a racial slur and comparing one student to a slave Wednesday.

Former first lady Michelle Obama warned parents Friday about the dangers of the Trump administration decision delaying federal requirements to ensure nutritionally sound school lunches for kids.

Jeff Sessions released a new directive Friday for federal prosecutors to charge suspects with the most serious provable offense.

The mother of 8-year-old Gabriel Taye recently said that there is proof that her son was bullied at Carson Elementary School in Cincinnati, Ohio before he committed suicide in January.

North Carolina NAACP leader Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II to step down from his post to lead a new moral movement modeled after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's Poor People's Campaign.

Through its various platforms, Urban One's national reach touches 59 million households, 22 million listeners, 40 million video streams, 20 million unique visitors and 5 million app starts.

Roland Martin takes a closer look at President Donald Trump's firing of FBI director James Comey and the curious timing of the matter.

Historically Black institution Howard University is involved in a lawsuit that claims they failed to handle sexual assault reports made by female students. The suit claims that five female students reported sexual assaults by male students and employees of Howard University between 2014 and 2016. The first unidentified student says she was raped by a Resident […]