South Carolina will be the No. 1 seed in the Southeastern Conference women’s basketball tournament after winning a coin flip ...

On Saturday night, the North Carolina Forest Service reported nearly a dozen fires across all four forests of the National Forests in North Carolina.

At least 175 fast-moving blazes in South Carolina have scorched more than 4,200 acres of tinder-dry vegetation, officials ...

Hazel Dukes, the president of the New York State chapter of the NAACP and lifelong civil rights advocate, died Saturday at ...

Former NAACP New York State Conference president and longtime civil rights activist Hazel Dukes died at age 92, her family ...

Target’s decision to pull back its DEI promises prompted Black faith leaders to announce a boycott on the retailer during a press conference at the historic Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, D.C.

Target’s decision to pull back its DEI promises prompted Black faith leaders to announce a boycott on the retailer during a press conference at the historic Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, D.C.

We're a nonprofit (so it's tax-deductible), and reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget. One day about 10 ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul once dubbed Hazel Dukes, the venerable leader of State’s NAACP chapter, “my mom on Earth.” But Dukes and her board said Tuesday they are “profoundly ...

When the Supreme Court announced the landmark ruling of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education in 1954, putting an end to state-sanctioned segregation of public schools, Septima Clark, the widowed ...

Retired Judge Clifton Newman reflects on his family's legacy of fighting for civil rights while the nation faces uncertainty ...