Floyd died from heart trouble, defense expert says; an uncertain Afghanistan; Hank Aaron in, KKK out
Defense expert testifies that heart trouble killed George Floyd; an uncertain Afghanistan; Hank Aaron's name replaces KKK leader's on Atlanta school. Get caught up.
ATLANTA (AP) — An Atlanta high school that was named after a Ku Klux Klan leader will strip the name and instead honor the late baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron.
CLAIM: In Dayton, Ohio, city officials are telling people to wear masks because of coronavirus but just banned criminals from wearing them.
Some South Jersey blacks have spent decades researching, documenting and spreading the word about the history of African Americans in Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland counties.
As he does often in his toughest political moments, Trump tried to rally the Christian conservative voters who have proven to be some of his most loyal backers. He seized upon recent controversies surrounding "late-term abortions" and warned against legislation that he claimed "would allow a baby to be ripped from the mother's womb moments before birth."
Malcolm X was a Muslim minister and human rights activist. Born in 1925, he met his death at the hands of an assassin in 1965. Malcolm X was a…
Coyle: "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs." Take the Coen brothers for granted at your peril. In this, an anthology of six Western tales of death and storytelling, life is a Poker game where everyone's holding — like the two pair of black aces and eights that Scruggs (Tim Blake Nelson) refuses to play in the film's first chapter — a dead man's hand.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — John David Washington comes from a strong acting lineage, but he has carved out his own identity as a powerful actor, earning a Golden Globe nomination and generating Oscar buzz for his standout role in Spike Lee's "BlacKkKlansman."
From CNN's Brian Stelter and wife being photographed with pipe bomb package to stories about the migrant caravan and huge Donald Trump rallies, here's a look at some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week.
From Michael Buble's retirement from music to rumor about an old KKK rally and the Democratic party, here's a look at some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week.
In 1979, David Duke told the media he had launched a wildly successful recruiting drive in Connecticut. A local reporter wanted to test Duke's claims – so he filled out an application to join the KKK.
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
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The longtime president of Casper’s NAACP branch, Jimmy Simmons, resigned last Tuesday amid what he said was a leadership struggle within the o…
The longtime president of Casper’s NAACP branch, Jimmy Simmons, resigned Tuesday amid what he said was a leadership struggle within the organization.
Add them to the annals of No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: works of art calling attention to racism in America’s past — and its persistence in Am…
Less than two weeks into the reality that Donald Trump will be our next president, the situation feels more ominous than on election night.
Melanie Kelly stood at the front of her ninth grade English class Wednesday wearing an Atticus Finch T-shirt. To her right were two stacks of …
Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr., gave his famous “I Have A Dream” speech. In it, he spoke of going to the mountaintop, seeing the prom…
In 1965, a pastor from Casper answered Martin Luther King Jr.'s call to travel to Selma, Alabama, and was fatally beaten. Revisit former Star-Tribune staff writer Brendan Meyer's story from 2015, when he traveled to Selma for the 50th anniversary.
The date of a jury trial has been set in a lawsuit filed by a former guard at the Wyoming State Penitentiary who claims that prison leadership…
PHILADELPHIA — Visitors arrived to find “CLOSED” signs at the Statue of Liberty, the Smithsonian and other parks and historic sites across the…
A private — and likely first — meeting between the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Ku Klux Klan in a small …
A Saturday meeting between leaders of the Casper branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a Ku Klux Klan o…
