National

Hampton University President William Harvey slams BET's drama 'The Quad.' He sends a strongly-worded letter to the network's president.

The University of Wisconsin student government proposes free tuition for Blacks. They get push-back from school administration.

A 12-year-old girl dies days after getting shot. She's the third young Chicago shooting victim in four days.

Barack Obama returned to his adopted hometown of Chicago for the first time as ex-president on Wednesday, mapping plans and raising money for his Obama Presidential Center.

The FBI on Wednesday released almost 400 pages of documents related to the 1970s investigation of racial discrimination in housing owned by President Donald Trump’s late father, Fred Trump.

Louisiana Sen. Troy Brown battles efforts to expel him from the state Senate. He pleaded no contest to domestic violence charges.

Cartoonist Glenn McCoy who caught heat Tuesday for depicting U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos as Ruby Bridges -- the African-American girl in Norman Rockwell's southern school desegregation painting "The Problem We All Live With" -- explained his controversial decision Wednesday.

Louisiana state district court judge Mike Erwin denied this week that he used a derogatory racial slur and referred to a Black woman visiting a bar as the N-word.

Scholastic plans to publish a children's book on social activism. It's written by 12-year-old Marley Dias.

The Tallahatchie County Courthouse, where Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were tried and acquitted in Emmett Till’s death in 1955 is being converted into a museum.