THAT MOTIVATION, FOLLOWED BY YEARS OF HARD WORK ALL PAYING OFF. THIS MONTH, THE DEPUTY JEFFERSON BECAME THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN TO JOIN THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE SWAT TEAM. I JUST FINISHED ...

Hoover expects the Black unemployment rate (which was 6.3% in April) to spike higher once more job cuts take effect, and as ...

It was in the former Patrick County Sheriff’s Office, now courthouse, where Josanna Bryson made history by becoming the first African American ... like civil process, working court security ...

“We can work towards a community intervention ... to create the Office of Missing and Murdered African American Women. The office said it planned to allocate a $1.24 million annual budget ...

On the first day of one of the first AP African American Studies classes ever taught ... Read more: Anti-‘Critical Race Theory’ Laws Are Working At least 19 states have passed laws or rules ...

I take all those values with me not just being African American but as a working class person. I take all those values and struggles with me to office.” Davis graduated from the University of ...

“The Office of African American Health will help take a new lens ... has a history of advocating for equity and looks forward to the work of the office. She is grateful for the work of those ...

By Sandra E. Garcia In a recent online presentation, editors and researchers working on a first-of-its-kind dictionary of African American English gave a status update on the project. As academics ...

SAN FRANCISCO – The future of African-American reparations in San Francisco is facing an uncertain future after Mayor London Breed announced that a proposed office won't be funded due to budget ...

The City of Minneapolis has appointed 15 members to the new African American Historic Work Group to honor and preserve the city’s African American history. The work group consists of local artists, ...

The New Generation of African American Philanthropists, or NGAAP, has more than 70 members from various career fields, who pool their dollars to fund their grantmaking work. The group just kicked ...