WASHINGTON: National Geographic Monday acknowledged that it covered the world through a racist lens for generations, with its magazine portrayals of...
WASHINGTON: Fifty years after Mildred and Richard Loving’s landmark legal challenge shattered the laws against interracial marriage in the U.S., some...
WASHINGTON: Nooses have appeared recently around the U.S. capital – including the Smithsonian’s new African-American history museum – in a rash of incidents...
WASHINGTON: In a long-awaited sign that middle-class Americans are finally seeing real economic gains, U.S. households got a raise last year after seven years...
Neil Gaiman is one of the world’s beloved writers and could probably work on any project he wants. And what he wanted to do is go back to his roots in the...
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama's nuclear agreement with Iran seems to be picking up the momentum it needs to survive fierce opposition in Congress from...
ATLANTA: Julian Bond, one of America's most poetic voices for equality who inspired fellow activists with his words in the 1960s and carried the civil...
CHARLESTON: Mourners prepared Thursday for the first funerals for the victims of the mass shooting at a historic black Charleston church, a day after...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Move over, Bruce Wayne. There’s going to be a new Batman fighting crime in Gotham City for DC Comics. Instead of a cape, he’ll...
WASHINGTON: The poverty rate in the United States has dropped for the first time since 2006, bringing a bit of encouraging news about the nation's economy as...
Maya Angelou walked into a meeting of civil rights leaders discussing affirmative action back in the 1990s, looked around, and put them all in their place...
WASHINGTON: DNA may be the building block of life, but can something taken from it also be the building block of a multimillion-dollar medical monopoly?The...