Days after 30-year-old community organizer Brittany “Bree” Newsome scaled a 30-foot pole to remove the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Statehouse grounds, the nation…

President Barack Obama brought the nation to its feet Friday when he eulogized Rev. Clementa Pinckney, the South Carolina state senator killed during last week’s…

A week after the racially-fueled shooting at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church that left nine dead, including South Carolina State Senator Clementa Pinckney, members of the Ku Klux Klan…

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Symbols Matter. Words Matter. That’s what one local entrepreneur, Frank Scurlock, reminded us of when he paid for skywriting during Jazz Fest. New Orleanians looked…

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It’s not often we smile and nod our head in approval at Justice Clarence Thomas (he’s had his share of moments that make us cringe),…

All four Confederate flags posted at Alabama state Capitol’s Confederate memorial were removed Wednesday morning following a quiet order from the state’s governor, Robert Bentley (R).…

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What role does White supremacy play in White privilege? Rev. Jim Wallis told Roland Martin, host of NewsOne Now, “White privilege is the benefit of White…

A White nationalist who reportedly inspired Charleston AME gunman Dylann Roof donated thousands of dollars to a number of Republican presidential candidates, The Guardian reports. Earl Holt, president…

The South Carolina judge who urged the public support the family of accused AME gunman Dylann Roof during a bizarre bond hearing may be replaced…

In the wake of the deadly and racially charged Emanuel AME church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, many have been vocal about the removal of the…

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One of the most bittersweet stories to arise from the Charleston AME church shooting was that of a five-year-old girl who played dead to avoid being…

Dylann Roof, the South Carolina native suspected of fatally shooting nine people at Charleston’s historic Emanuel AME Church, was charged with nine counts of murder, police…