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From the very inception of Donald Trump's presidency, talks of Russian meddling in the 2016 election have hovered over the White House. Nine months later, there is still no concrete evidence that the Trump administration colluded with the foreign power, but there's overwhelming proof that Facebook played a major part in swaying voters with ads that aimed to exploit the racial tensions growing in America.
A Mississippi school is shedding the name of the Confederacy's only president and will instead be named for the first African-American president of the United States. The school with 98 percent African-American enrollment is set to be renamed for Barack Obama in the next academic year, in a move proposed by parents and approved by a majority of students, parents, faculty and staff members.
Artist Kehinde Wiley, known for his paintings of African-Americans and reinterpretations of classic artworks, has been chosen by former President Barack Obama to paint his official portrait for the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. At the end of each presidency, the museum partners with the White House to commission to one official portrait of the President and first lady.
Blacks in South Carolina who served in the Confederate military, many of them slaves pressed into duty, would be recognized with a Statehouse monument under a proposal by two white Republican lawmakers. State Reps.
Two armed American border guards confront a group of immigrants attempting to cross illegally from Mexico into the United States in 1948. I want to expand on something that came up in this thread from the other day: how whiteness might include Latinos in the future.
The Evansville branch of the NAACP has released a statement concerning a disturbing picture that shows middle school aged boys gathered around an African-American baby doll with a noose around its neck. Apparently taken using the social media platform Snapchat, the photo has been seen and shared by thousands of people on social media.
Just in time to celebrate its first anniversary, the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture has included a display featuring Justice Clarence Thomas, one of the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative stalwarts. Justice Thomas appears in an exhibit that was installed Sunday, a Smithsonian spokeswoman said Monday.
In this Sept. 21, 2017, photo, Lonnie Bunch, director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, talks about the museum's first year and his vision for the future of the exhibits, in Washington.
In its first year, the Smithsonian's new black museum has become the nation's top temple to blackness, an Afrocentric shrine on the National Mall where people of all races, colors and creed are flocking to experience - and leave behind for posterity - the highs and lows of African-American life in the United States. "This has become more than a museum.
's new show "Items: Is Fashion Modern?," John Edmonds photographed his friends in clothes the museum has deemed among the past century's most indispensable. 's new show "Items: Is Fashion Modern?," John Edmonds photographed his friends in clothes the museum has deemed among the past century's most indispensable.
Duane Cramer has photographed some of the most famous people in the country. From politicians , Hollywood stars , civil rights activists , LGBT icons , musicians , and TV stars .
The White House has significantly scaled back an annual gathering of the nation's historically black colleges presidents and advocates after a series of potentially offensive actions by President Donald Trump, including his much maligned statement this summer on the deadly race-fueled rally in Charlottesville, Va. Organizers worried some presidents would not attend and students would protest next week's event, initially scheduled to be held at a hotel just outside the nation's capital, according to three people familiar with the situation.
ESPN did practically nothing after one of its top hosts launched a racially inflammatory diatribe against President Trump. But that wasn't always the plan.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders holds the daily briefing at the White House in Washington on September 12, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Wednesday struck back at ESPN host Jemele Hill for referring to President Trump a "white supremacist," calling the comment "outrageous" and saying she should lose her job.
Fifty years ago, Thurgood Marshall, the grandson of an enslaved man who had become one of the country's most famous litigators, was about to be sworn in as the first African-American justice on the Supreme Court. And Marshall wanted to take the constitutional oath of office from Hugo Black, a white associate justice who had once been a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
During a star-studded showcase of social activism, creativity and courage, BET celebrated the achievements of Black women and girls at the "Black Girls Rock! 2017" awards show. Taraji P. Henson, the award-winning actress and star of the hit television show "Empire," hosted the event that was held at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, New Jersey.
U.S. Sen. Edward Markey is calling for a ban on menthol cigarettes, arguing that tobacco companies disproportionately target African-Americans when they market and promote the cigarettes. The Massachusetts Democrat is leading a group of fellow senators in calling on the Food and Drug Administration to prohibit the cigarettes, noting that African-Americans suffer the greatest burden of tobacco-related mortality of any ethnic or racial group in the U.S. The letter to the FDA sent earlier this week was also signed by fellow Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren, of Massachusetts, Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, of Rhode Island, and Richard Blumenthal, of Connecticut.
And the NAACP, leftist celebrities, and 100 black NYPD officers are rallying to get this "oppressed" multi-millionaire a job. Moreover, they're calling for a boycott of the NFL until Kaepernick gets signed.
Yes, last week's violent demonstration by white supremacists in Char-lottesville, Virginia, culminating in the death of 32-year-old Heather Heyer, made for a carnival of obscenity as sickening as it was riveting. But the thing is, it did not spring from nowhere.