While hosting a reception for Black History Month on Thursday, President Barack Obama greeted the crowd with First Lady Michelle Obama by his side, and of course, he brought the jokes.
Activist Larry Fellows and former Black Panther member Sekou Odinga discuss revolution music and how deeply woven art is in the tapestry of resistance.
In honor of Black History Month, watch the first installment of "Bridging The Gap," a series that honors the Black liberation movements of the past and present while building a bridge that will better help us understand how to propel what has become the largest Black liberation movement in recent years forward.
School officials in Henrico County, Va., apologize to parents for showing students a racial discrimination video during Black History Month. The parents complained that it promoted white guilt.
"I think his passion, his enthusiasm for the game, I think it’s great. I think it’s good for football," Manning said of Newton.
President Obama has announced plans to visit a mosque for the first time in his presidency.
The Freedman's Bank was established in 1865 to help foment wealth-building for nearly four million newly freed slaves. It closed in 1874.
Cromartie already has 10 children with different women.
Frances Cress Welsing, the Black author and psychiatrist whose 1991 work "The Isis Papers; The Keys to the Colors" introduced the world to the "melanin theory" and the "neuroses" of white supremacy, has died.
Milton Crenchaw, a flight instructor who trained the Tuskegee Airmen, has died.
CNN anchor Don Lemon, who has criticized Black Lives Matter and other activists for standing up for their rights, told The New York Times.
