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Dr. Raphael Warnock received the disturbing news on Thursday morning — someone had draped four Confederate flags around the campus of his church in Atlanta. It would be unnerving for any black church to find Confederate flags on its grounds. But this was the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, the spiritual home of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It’swhere the beloved civil ...

  Bill O’Reilly compared the Black Lives Matter movement to the gestapo Wednesday night, shortly before proclaiming he is the reporter who has done the most to “shed light” on violence against young black men. During a segment on “The O’Reilly Factor,” O’Reilly and Fox News commentator Andrea Tantaros discussed a Black Lives Matter conference in Ohio where attendees prevented a ...

When actress Nichelle Nichols played Uhura on “Star Trek,” she became one of the first ever female black actors on a well-known series to have a role that wasn’t a stereotypical maid or nanny. But, as she talked about in a Reddit AMA she did Thursday, she almost left the role for a career on Broadway until Martin Luther King Jr. convinced ...

Kyle Jean-Baptiste, 21, is the youngest and the first black actor to step into the iconic role of Jean Valjean in the Broadway production of “Les Misberables.” The musical adaptation of the Victor Hugo novel premiered on Broadway 30 years ago, and it is the longest running musical in the world. “Audiences are being forced to look at an iconic ...

Two University of Cincinnati police officers involved in a colleague’s recent fatal shooting of Samuel DuBose also were on hand for a 2010 struggle with a psychiatric patient who later died. Officers Eric Weibel and Phillip Kidd were among seven University of Cincinnati police officers and other officials named in a lawsuit alleging the wrongful death of Kelly Brinson, a 45-year-old ...

There’s an unspoken rule in literature: Characters are white unless explicitly described otherwise. Take, for example, Hermione Granger from Harry Potter: Thanks to actress Emma Watson, we picture the character as fair-skinned with perfectly disheveled ringlets. In a Buzzfeed article, however, writer Alanna Bennett says that there’s only one line (in The Prisoner of Azkaban) that ever explicitly refers to Hermione’s skin color:   “They were ...

An 8-year-old Maryland boy took a big step closer to his dream of throwing a football earlier this month when he became the first child to receive a double hand transplant. “I wanna say thank you guys for helping me down this bumpy road,” Zion Harvey said at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon. Zion has spent most of his ...

Ashley Diamond, a 36-year-old transgender black woman, has been serving time in various men’s prisons for the past three years for offenses including burglary and theft. She’s been denied hormone therapy, harassed and raped, and she has attempted castration and suicide, according to a lawsuit she filed in February against the Georgia Department of Corrections. But the sexual assaults have continued, according to ...

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who fatally shot a young black man while serving an arrest warrant in April returned to duty after three days of mandated paid leave, leaving community activists calling for transparency and justice. Authorities are still investigating ICE agent Mitchell Quinn’s use of deadly force in Terrance Kellom’s April 27 death. Quinn, who is ...

After American dentist Walter Palmer was identified as Cecil the lion’s shooter, outrage — and demand for him to be held accountable — came quickly. In less than 24 hours, Palmer’s past felony record was exposed, he was bombarded with criticism on social media, and his dental practice was abruptly shuttered for an undetermined length of time. Palmer has since gone into hiding as ...