From staff cuts to aid reductions, UN humanitarian agencies scramble in wake of US funding freeze
U.N. agencies have been scrambling to revise their operations and appeal to the administration to restore U.S. support.
Broadway’s ‘Wicked’ welcomes Lencia Kebede, its first pioneering full-time Black Elphaba
Kebede, a first-generation Ethiopian American from Los Angeles, spent five years touring with “Hamilton," before her new role ...
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser explains plans to remove Black Lives Matter street mural: ‘We have bigger fish to fry’
As the nation’s capital has come under fire from the President, Mayor Bowser has tried to avoid conflict where possible.
D’Wayne Wiggins of Tony! Toni! Toné! is dead at 64
Wiggins, the Oakland-native who co-founded the popular R&B band was battling bladder cancer over the past year.
60 years after ‘Bloody Sunday,’ leaders say voting rights and racial equality have declined
Black leaders grapple with progress being undone by a series of court rulings, state laws, and Donald Trump's targeting of ...
Baton Rouge police arrest one, pursue two more suspects in hazing death of Southern University student
Caleb McCray is denying accusations put forth against him in death of a college junior following an alleged hazing incident.
‘Anti-DEI efforts are anti-Black’: Activist Maurice Mitchell lays out the consequences of diversity rollbacks and a plan for resistance
“Every anti-DEI measure and all the anti-DEI craze is a way to push back against the rights of Black people and the civil rights and Black rights and racial justice victories that we’ve been able to ...