King's son said he never thought racism would still be around and on the rise like it is today, as rally-goers urged activism ...

Mecklenburg County Democrats are moving on from their embattled leader with a new chair.

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It’s been a rough week for sports commentator Shannon Sharpe. As the sexual assault lawsuit against him continues to break ...

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The Bronx High School of Science boasts nine Nobel Prize winners and 10 Pulitzer Prize recipients among its alumni, but there ...

Earth Day, a global effort to educate people on growing environmental threats and propel them to action, marks its 55th ...

Doing so requires unearthing data for a large number of people on slaveholder ancestry ... slavery with sharecropping – a kind of indentured servitude that trapped Black farm workers in debt to white ...

Michael B. Jordan plays twin hustlers in “Sinners,” an extraordinary musical horror fable.

Coogler quickly fell in love with the format and felt it was fitting for the larger-than-life, genre-bending film about ...

The presence of a Confederate monument in Georgetown, Texas, continues to be a point of contention for many residents. Read ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best nonfiction books since the festival was inaugurated.