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The proposed budget would ramp up military spending, while decreasing funds for scientific research, the arts community and programs that significantly impact the poor.

Hate crimes in nine U.S. metropolitan areas rose more than 20 percent last year—reversing a downward trend in the last few years—fueled in part due to the presidential campaign of Donald Trump, according to researcher Brian Levin.

Federal Judge Derrick K. Watson in Hawaii on Wednesday night blocked President Trump’s second ban on travel from six countries that are majority Muslim. Hawaii's attorney general was the first state to bring a lawsuit against the revised travel ban.

A Gallup poll finds that Democrats are more worried than Republicans are about race relations.

911 dispatcher Constance Hollinger was suspended for eight days, while William Cunningham, an off-duty officer, was handed a two-day suspension.

Trump decided to come for Snoop Dogg and David Cay Johnston on social media Wednesday morning.

A new study finds that the counties or areas of the country where slavery was most prevalent today vote Republican and continue to have the least progressive views on race.

An Irish publication revealed that a handful of the country's politicians have a special place in their heart for Beyoncé.

University of California professor Raphael Bostic has made history Monday as the first African-American president of one of the Federal Reserve's 12 regional banks.

A New Jersey elementary school recently apologized to a group of angry parents for an assignment that involved fifth-graders drawing posters of slave auctions.