On Jan. 31, the Department of Defense announced in a statement that it will not use official resources, such as staff time, ...

Tampa's 48th mayor, Julian B. Lane, played a role in the Civil Rights Movement as one of the first southern mayors to support ...

Cole’s impact extended beyond the realm of music. In 1956, he became the first African American to host a national network television show, “The Nat King Cole Show.” This was a groundbreaking moment, ...

The Social Security Administration’s acting commissioner has stepped down from her role at the agency over Department of Government Efficiency requests to access Social Security recipient information.

As a teen raised in the Rust Belt in the 1960s, Alan Cashaw wasn’t blind to the fact that racism existed. But he also knew ...

Local organizers built a multiracial, multigenerational union with grassroots energy and tenacity. But Amazon is too big to ...

BE has covered every step of former President Barack Obama’s ascent, starting with his campaign for the US Senate in 2004 ...

G eorge Washington Williams was one complex dude. He was a soldier, a minister of the gospel, a lawyer, a politician, an ...

As part of the successful effort to advance racial equality, many mass gatherings and actions were performed over the ...

Though MacArthur Cotton was critical of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the 82-year-old is even more critical of where things stand with the legislation now.

That led the Cygnal analysis of its monthly survey to declare, “Black Men Love Trump. The political realignment from November ...

Twenty one cities allow foreign citizens to vote in their local elections," stated Jack Tomczak, Vice President of Americans for Citizen Voting. "South Dakotans wholeheartedly support allowing only ...