Vanessa Williams

Ellen Ann Fentress says it’s time to reckon with the the history of the intentionally discriminatory private schools that sprang up in the South to skirt court-ordered school desegregation.

Social and economic concerns are a factor in how people of color perceive the threat from the novel coronavirus, a public health expert says.

The study by an AIDS research foundation warns that reopening the nation’s economy too soon could put black Americans at greater risk of contracting the novel coronavirus and dying of covid-19.

The feelings of fear and uncertainty are all too familiar to African Americans and other people of color.

The head of a civil rights legal group is “deeply concerned” over a response from the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The social media spots accuse President Trump and supporters of strict voting laws as “suppressing black voices and votes.”

A new spot featuring Democratic vice presidential nominee Kalama Harris with a positive message.

As the winner of the special election runoff Tuesday, he will serve for just a few weeks, filling the remainder of Lewis’s term, which ends Jan. 3. Rep.-elect Nikema Williams won the seat last month.

Just as it took intense public pressure to force Congress and then-president Lyndon B. Johnson to pass the Voting Rights Act in 1965, activists have stepped up their efforts to push the federal government to again intervene to protect voting rights for people of color, young and low-income Americans.

Activists say they will continue to challenge Congress and President Biden to push through federal legislation to counteract restrictive voting laws in states.