Between 2012 and 2020, Black voter participation in Wisconsin fell from 78.5 percent to 43.5 percent, the largest drop in Black voter turnout in the nation.
The city burned scores of homes owned by Black residents, and victims and descendants are demanding reparations. But what about the tribe that owned the land?
San Antonio has launched a $550 million project to transform the Alamo. But some worry slavery’s role in the fight for Texan independence will be missing.
The $12 million pledge is a mere fraction of the billions of dollars recommended by the state’s reparations task force but is a big step for the fledgling movement.
The president of Dillard University, a historically Black college, has relaunched its National Center for Black-Jewish Relations. But the plan has become entangled by the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel.
Some Haitian Americans say U.S. officials should be doing more to help those affected by the gang violence that has turned Port-au-Prince into a war zone.
O.J. Simpson’s acquittal for the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and a friend, Ronald Goldman, became a symbol of America’s lingering racial division.