"Being a 9 year NBA veteran doesn't protect me from being called 'coronavirus' on the court," Lin wrote on his Facebook page.

British rapper Lady Leshurr claims she walked away from a "massive" Atlantic Records deal because she was asked to write a diss track aimed at rap icon Nicki Minaj.

Last year, former

Professor, playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith adds her voice to The Atlantic's "Inheritance," with an autobiographical essay “The Good-Girl Struggle.” The account is set in In 1968.

Defund to Refund is a new story-based platformed aimed at changing the conversation surrounding public funding for community safety.

"Abolish the filibuster," Rep. Ilhan Omar tweeted following the Senate parliamentarian's ruling that blocked the Democratic Party's plan to raise the federal minimum wage.

Last February, Gucci was accused of promoting blackface with a fashion blunder it later apologized for. This February, the Italian luxury clothing company is partnering with the popular "Detroit Vs. Everybody ...

A former police officer, who wrote a letter confessing to covering up evidence in the assassination of Malcolm X, requested the letter be publicly read after his death.

A former police officer, who wrote a letter confessing to covering up evidence in the assassination of Malcolm X, requested the letter be publicly read after his death.

Fowler says it is the things that runaways carried as they darted towards freedom that best captured their humanity: the pistols and love letters, the hardened bread and forged freedom papers.

Actor Clifton Powell reveals that he still struggles finding roles due to discrimination and colorism in the movie and entertainment industries.

Zoe and Jordan Sims Rhodes, two sisters in Indianapolis, have created a clothing line and a hashtag to help people become more comfortable with COVID-19 vaccination.

Family members of a 12-year-old are begging the Atlanta community for information about who killed the child.

Former Atlanta Dream player Renee Montgomery becomes the first former WNBA player to become a league owner and executive in the acquisition of the Dream basketball team.

Iconic scientist Mary Jackson will have her name put on NASA's headquarters in Washington D.C.

Jason Smith, a middle school principal in Indianapolis, is receiving praise after cutting the hair of an eighth grade student who felt ashamed about his appearance.

Unidentified gunmen kidnaped 317 girls in northwest Nigeria on Friday, continuing a troubling trend in the country which has been especially on the rise in the past week.

Winn-Dixie is honoring an elderly employee by creating a grant that will address racial disparities in education, food insecurity, and healthcare.

The New Jersey Economic Development Authority Chief Diversity Officer discusses ways government can support racial equity in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.

To ensure that transgender service members, and all transgender people, have the same rights as all other Americans, we need strong federal nondiscrimination protections like the Equality Act.

To this day, the nearly 710,000 Americans who call our nation’s capital home are almost completely disenfranchised within it. It's time to change that.

These systems aren’t broken; they’re just hoping to break us.

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Former Olympics gymnastics coach John Geddert kills himself after he is indicted on charges of sexual abuse in relation to the Larry Nassar scandal.

A family in Indianapolis is suing the city and its police department for the death of Eleanor Northington, a woman who died in church two years ago with a cop’s knee digging into her back.