Hegseth has railed against what he considered "woke" policies like the renaming of military bases named after racist ...

Tsedaye Makonnen’s ethereal pillars at the African Art Museum pay tribute to victims of violence and the perils of migration.

Jimmy Carter was honored at his state funeral in Washington, DC on Thursday. We think of Carter as the man from Plains, ...

When the sun falls from the darkening Washington, DC, sky, the electric crowd at Howard University appears certain it will ...

From 2010 to 2020, the total share of U.S. violent crime victims who were Black increased by 3.2 percent to 32.7 percent of ...

Round,' screening Jan. 29 at the NY Jewish Film Festival, shows how a 1960 neighborhood demonstration in Maryland shifted ...

MLK Holiday DC week commemorates the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a call to action for social justice.

The Washington, D.C. attorney general has ... and the Law,” there has been a long history of under-protection of Black lives. From the rape of enslaved and freed Black women in the antebellum ...

1968 — The Green Bay Packers win their second straight Super Bowl. The game draws the first $3 million gate in football history. Bart Starr, the game’s MVP, completes 13 of 24 passes for 202-yards.

In a recent interview with theGrio, the Rev. Al Sharpton, called on Biden to issue pardons for two high-profile Democrats.

Snap your fingers to the melodies of jazz and gospel at an evening or late-night jam session on MLK Day itself. Georgetown’s ...

The lawsuit argues that federal agencies and military sites created landfills, allowed waste to flow into the river and ...