President Joao Lourenço urged Africans and those of African descent in the diaspora to come together over shared history of enslavement.
Author: Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY
Black activists travel the South to push for voting protections, honor Freedom Riders
Black Voters Matters led a bus tour through the South in its campaign to urge Congress to take action and protect voting rights.
Faith groups are stepping up to host vaccine sites. Why churches are key places, especially for people of color.
Faith groups are stepping up to become vaccine sites, particularly in communities of color, which have been disproportionately hard hit by COVID-19.
‘We earned it’: Women of color at inauguration celebrate Kamala Harris
Pink and green, the colors of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, joined red, white and blue on Inauguration Day.
To help heal racial wounds, Black national anthem would become America’s hymn under proposal
To help heal racial wounds, U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn is pushing to make “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the Black national anthem, America’s national hymn.
Civil rights icon John Lewis remembered by fellow veterans: ‘We had right on our side’
As John Lewis’ life is celebrated in several cities, veterans of the civil rights movement, close friends and colleagues shared memorable moments.
‘People are really suffering’: Black and Latino communities help their own amid coronavirus crisis
Black and Latino community leaders are stepping in to help their own through the coronavirus crisis.
Coronavirus is slowing down search for census workers, could make it harder to count Americans
Census officials and community groups are canceling job fairs and other events to ward off the spread of the coronavirus, but hiring is still underway
We’re ‘equipped’ to count nation’s population amid coronavirus crisis, census officials say. Lawmakers aren’t so sure.
As census officials prepare to count the nation’s population, experts and lawmakers raise concerns about the potential impact of the coronavirus.
Trump warns GOP should be ‘paranoid’ about elections as states spend millions to boost voter confidence
State officials are looking to increase confidence in voting ahead of 2020 as Trump tells Republicans to be “paranoid” about how votes are counted.