Dead at 28, Sandra Bland's Texas dream turned nightmare
According to federal statistics, an African-American driver is 31 percent more likely to be pulled over for a traffic citation.
Today in African-American history: Mary McLeod Bethune born in 1875
She organized African American women in the South to vote despite the Jim Crow poll tax and other racist restrictions.
Confederate flags, monuments, going down in wake of massacre
Politicians across the South are distancing themselves from the Confederate battle flag, but tributes to slaveocracy and its racist legacy persist around the country.
Today in history: Olympic runner Wilma Rudolph born 75 years ago
"My doctors told me I would never walk again, my mother told me I would; I believed my mother."
To Mother Emanuel’s Denmark Vesey: your fight goes on!
Fighting off racist attacks is nothing new for the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C.
Today in history: 150th anniversary of Juneteenth
It honors the day when slaves in Texas heard they had been freed by Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
Nine dead after hate crime in historic S.C. black church
The gunman stayed for nearly an hour at the prayer meeting Wednesday night before shooting the victims - six females and three males.
Baltimore United for Change takes root
As Freddie Gray lay dying in Maryland Shock Trauma Center, a group of activists was planning to curb police brutality in Baltimore.
Today in history: Philadelphia police bomb MOVE 30 years ago
In 1985, Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on a residential building, resulting in a massive fire that left 11 persons dead including five children.
Discrimination against black students rampant in Louisiana school district
One black eighth-grader spent six days in juvenile detention after being arrested for throwing Skittles candy at another student.
