The burying ground looks like an abandoned lot. Holding the remains of upward of 22,000 enslaved and free people of color, the Shockoe Hill African ...

The government shutdown stretched into Day 28 Tuesday as the stalemate over how to reopen the government continues.

Illinois black lawmakers gave House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) a firm reality check on Monday: any new ...

More than 400 potential candidates filed to run for public office on Monday, the official kickoff to the 2026 election season.

Republicans have been quick to criticize Illinois Governor JB Pritzker over Illinois’ current congressional map.

The same report found that 89.4% of SNAP recipients were U.S born citizens, meaning less than 11% of SNAP participants were foreign-born. Of the latter figure, 6.2% were naturalized citizens, 1.1% ...

Four people are now facing charges in a brutal attack against a 14-year-old African American boy in Iowa County.

Pending legislation could set the stage for the removal of one or both of the state's majority-Black districts.

U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries traveled to Illinois Monday to urge lawmakers and African-American Congress ...

Stacker culled through news and entertainment resources to come up with a list of 20 slang words that originated from or were ...

The Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society invites the community to welcome Nancy Bercaw for a discussion of the future of African American public history, according to a news release. The ...

We read Graham Platner’s whole Reddit archive. The vilification of the Maine candidate for Senate doesn’t square with what he ...