Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols IV is pushing a $100 million trust to aid descendants of the Tulsa Race Massacre, aiming to revitalize the Greenwood District and provide scholarships.

Gov. Wes Moore, the nation’s only Black governor, recently caused a stir in the movement for reparations in his state.

Camilla, Georgia's Black Mayor Kelvin Owens, Interim City Manager Cheryl Ford, and former Election Superintendent Rhunette ...

During the contacts, Hakan Fidan intends to express Turkey's readiness to fulfill its commitments and to facilitate the next negotiations between Russia and Ukraine ...

Charles Rangel, a founding member and pioneering leader of the US Congressional Black Caucus, died on Monday, the Caucus said ...

Hiram Revels, the first Black US senator, took office in the late 1800s as part of a wave of African American lawmakers during the Reconstruction era, but he was elected by the Mississippi ...

Maryland legislators believe that they still have the votes to overturn Gov. Moore's unpopular veto of a reparations bill.

Faith leaders join Maryland Gov. Wes Moore in vetoing a bill on reparation commission, calling for action and practical solutions for the 'Beloved Community'.

There was one other Reconstruction-era Black senator from Mississippi, Blanche Bruce. After he left the Senate in 1881, Mississippi passed laws—part of a wave of new Jim Crow laws—blocking ...

U.S. Senator Cory ... into law post-Reconstruction Era. Ultimately Thurmond’s filibuster did not prevail. Though the law’s intended outcome of equal voting rights for Black Americans had ...

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) has become the longest-serving Black senator in U.S. history, as the 119th Congress begins Friday. Scott was appointed to the Senate in 2012 by then-Gov. Nikki Haley (R ...

Scott was appointed to the Senate in 2012 by then-Gov. Nikki Haley (R) after former Sen. Jim DeMint (R) resigned. At the time, he was the first Black Republican senator since 1978 and the first ...