Springfield Mayor Rob Rue and City Commissioner Krystal Brown strongly criticized a man who made racist comments against Haitian immigrants at Tuesday's city commission meeting, eventually having the ...

This week, the African Union (AU) is convening its 38th annual meeting here in Addis Ababa under the theme "Justice for Africans and People of African Descent through Reparations." This timely topic ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Friday, Feb. 7, will mark 160 years since Illinois struck down laws that kept free Black people from entering the state and gave those already in the state just 10 days to get out.

Twelve years before that, a historic meeting took place in what’s now ... And at the time, it was the harshest restriction of black people in the country. Kate Masur is a historian and professor ...

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton had a sometimes tense meeting with Black Lives ... saying Clinton should not "tell black people what we need to do." Here's a transcript ...