Federal and state authorities are working to find the origins of racist text messages sent to Black people across the country ...

Erika D. Smith is a politics and policy columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. She is a former Los Angeles Times columnist and ...

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The messages urged recipients in multiple states to report to a plantation to pick cotton, an offensive reference to past ...

UN General Assembly President Philémon Yang said Friday that racism and discrimination remain deeply entrenched problems despite international efforts over the past 10 years. Speaking at a ...

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The Louisiana Attorney General's Office has released new information in an investigation into racist text messages being sent across the country.

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Mathematician and astronomer Benjamin Banneker was born on Nove.r 9, 1731, in Ellicott’s Mills, Maryland.