One of the few Black-owned banks in the U.S. is introducing a debit card aimed at helping single mothers who live in government subsidized housing escape poverty.

As people gathered to celebrate Juneteenth at events across the U.S., former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama welcomed the first visitors to his presidential center.

Five years to the day Navajo elder Ella Mae Begay disappeared, the man who acknowledged beating her and leaving her on the side of the road is free from prison.

A police shooting in Senatobia, Mississippi, that left a 1-year-old child dead has ignited simmering tensions between police and Black residents in the town of 8,000.

Of the many cruel aspects of slavery, the shackles used to restrain and dehumanize over 12 million Africans across three centuries may be the most visceral tangible reminder.

America's 250th birthday marks a milestone of resilience for Native Americans.

Detainees at an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” have been transferred to other facilities, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said, citing concerns related to the hurricane season.

On Thursday, 156 players from around the world will tee it up for the sixth U.S. Open held at Shinnecock Hills.

Republican lawmakers in Georgia won’t redraw congressional and state legislative districts for the 2028 elections during a special session called by GOP Gov. Brian Kemp.

Contractors running Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities can rely more heavily on artificial intelligence tools to communicate with detainees and continue refusing to pay wages for detainees’ “voluntary work."

Family members say renowned South African jazz musician Abdullah Ibrahim has died at age 91.

Iranian American demonstrators amassed outside Iran’s first World Cup match, waving the pre-revolutionary lion-and-sun flags banned inside the stadium and calling for change in Tehran.

A new AP-NORC/AAPI Data poll finds that most Asian American and Pacific Islander adults have experienced or witnessed some degree of upheaval because of the Trump administration’s heightened immigration policies.

The opening lyrics couldn’t be plainer: “I am from Bosnia; take me to America.”.

The Florida Supreme Court has allowed the use of a new U.S. House map drawn by Republicans in the midterm elections.

The Trump administration recently asked visitors to U_S_ national parks to report displays or exhibits saying “negative” things about Americans and to restore sites as “uplifting public monuments."

Paraguayan fans are eager to see their national soccer team’s long-awaited return to the World Cup in the country they now call home.

A new report alleges that mismanagement at a massive Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas produced unsafe conditions that contributed to detainees’ deaths and suffering even as millions of tax dollars were wasted on contractors.

Salt Lake City and its county have filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Department of Homeland Security’s plan to open a giant warehouse in the city that would be used to detain up to 10,000 immigrants.

Harvard University psychiatrist and author Robert Coles has died.

A national redistricting battle is about to enter a new phase.

Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament has been passionate about skateboarding since his teenage years in Montana.

A federal judge has struck down a Trump administration policy enacted after the shooting of two National Guard members that made it harder for immigrants from dozens of countries to stay and enter the country.

Outraged Minnesota residents with loved ones who died at the hands of police are demanding accountability over the state's Republican Party holding a public prayer for the former police officer in prison for murdering George Floyd.

A Colorado court reversed homicide convictions against two paramedics on Thursday in the ketamine overdose death of Elijah McClain after the Black man was pinned down by police.

Republicans have won a partisan redistricting battle for Congress.

A federal judge is considering whether to throw out a jury’s guilty verdict against former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan who was convicted of felony obstruction for helping an immigrant evade federal officers.

Britain’s interior minister accused activists of hijacking a teenager's murder to stir up violence after police were attacked at a protest.

The fatal stabbing of a British teenage who was handcuffed despite telling offices that he was wounded has sparked a debate about policing and race.

Immigrant detainees across at least 33 states allege in court documents that the government is failing to provide them with adequate medical care.

Former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has clinched the Democratic nomination for New Mexico governor.

A South Carolina jury has found a store owner not guilty of murder in the 2023 shooting of a Black 14-year-old.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani did not attend an annual parade honoring Israel, breaking with a decades-long political custom because of his support of Palestinian rights.

Former Arcadia Mayor Eileen Wang has pleaded guilty to being an illegal agent of the Chinese government.

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill has sent state police to establish designated protest zones and vehicle checkpoints outside an immigration detention center in Newark.

The White House is moving to give political appointees more control over federal grants.

A federal immigration agent wanted in the shooting of a Venezuelan man during the Trump administration’s Minnesota crackdown has been arrested in Texas.

Louisiana lawmakers have passed a new congressional map to pick up a Republican seat while leaving the state with one of its two majority-Black House districts.

A pregnant woman from Ghana who entered the U.S. on a valid visa with her son so he could get medical attention has been held for more than a week in a windowless detention room at a Washington airport, her lawyers said in court documents.

The Trump administration's review of Mexico's 53 U.S. consulates has stoked worries among Mexicans in the U.S. that some could be shuttered, making it harder for them to access important services.

French lawmakers have voted to repeal a 17th-century law that governed enslaved people in France's colonies.

Stop AAPI Hate is an organization that rose to national prominence for its meticulous reports on anti-Asian hate incidents at the height of the pandemic.

Democratic members of Congress are visiting a federal immigration detention center in New Jersey where protesters have been demonstrating in recent days and asserting that detainees inside are on a hunger strike.

A South Carolina jury heard opening statements in the trial of a store owner charged with murder in the killing of a Black 14-year-old.

South Africa's government and Afrikaner advocacy groups reject the notion of a humanitarian emergency affecting white people in the country.

The mayor of Minneapolis says the police chief hired to oversee reforms after George Floyd’s killing has chosen to resign rather than face discipline for interfering with an investigation into his conduct.

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The South Carolina Senate has rejected President Donald Trump’s push to redraw the state’s congressional districts in hopes Republicans could gain an extra seat.

Federal judges have temporarily blocked Alabama’s plan to use new congressional districts that could help Republicans win an additional seat in the midterm elections.

The head of an inquiry into antisemitism in Australia has condemned online hatred and bigotry targeting Jewish witnesses.

Pope Leo XIV has made a historic apology for the role the Holy See played in legitimizing slavery.

Court records reveal new details about one of two teenagers who killed three people at a San Diego mosque.

Former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil's lawyers say they'll ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene after a federal appeals court declined to reconsider a decision that put the government a step closer to deporting him.

Advocates for telling the whole truth of American history are celebrating the legacy of Ona Judge, from her footprints in Philadelphia to her face in New Hampshire.

All charges against four activists who protested outside a federal building during last year’s immigration crackdown in Chicago have been dropped in an unusual hearing where a top federal prosecutor appeared to acknowledge grand jury misconduct by his office.

Federal officials have given final approval for a controversial segment of the Dakota Access oil pipeline that crosses the Missouri River.

An attack at a California Islamic center is the latest violence where the perpetrators said they were inspired by past atrocities, such as the 2019 massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand.

A Tennessee judge has set a $1 million bond for a white livestreamer charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting and wounding a Black man.

A lawsuit filed on behalf of students and community organizations in Massachusetts argues the state is illegally maintaining schools that are racially segregated, concentrating Black and Latino students in high-poverty districts with fewer opportunities.

The South Carolina House has endorsed a plan to redraw its congressional districts to favor Republicans at the urging of President Donald Trump.

The NAACP is calling on Black athletes, alumni, fans and the general public to boycott the athletic programs of public universities in states that aim to redistrict longtime Black lawmakers.

A Minnesota county prosecutor has charged an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in the nonfatal shooting of a Venezuelan man during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the state.

The South Carolina House is debating legislation that could redraw congressional districts to help Republicans possibly win an additional seat in the November elections.

Indigenous leaders say that federal contractors are desecrating sacred Native American places and cultural sites at an unprecedented pace in the rush to build more walls on the U.S.-Mexico border.

The year was 1965 and Black Americans had come to Montgomery, Alabama, to demonstrate peacefully voting rights.

The Trump administration has run the names of at least 67 million voters through government databases as it looks for noncitizens and people who've died.

Félicien Kabuga, accused of bankrolling the Rwandan genocide, died in a hospital in The Hague while in custody, a U.N. court said.

María Cabrera and her family fled into the night-cloaked mountains of central Mexico with only the clothes on their backs when bombs fell from the sky and bullets ricocheted off her concrete floors.

A family-owned Latino grocery store in Delaware is attracting online audiences and bands from far away with monthly concerts from diverse artists and genres.

Thousands of people gathered in Montgomery, Alabama, to mobilize support for voting rights amid concerns about redistricting efforts.

A new generation of civil rights leaders is rallying against efforts to dismantle the Voting Rights Act.

New U.S. House districts in Florida are facing their first test in court.

State senators in Louisiana have passed a new congressional map after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the previous one.

The leader of an Eastern European neo-Nazi group has been sentenced in New York to 15 years in prison for trying to recruit others to commit violent acts against Jews and racial minorities.

A group of Black divers recently visited the site where the British slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 326 years ago.

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries had warned Republicans they would come to regret the congressional redistricting fight.

Environmental groups say the expected closure of a detention center in the Florida Everglades is linked to their lawsuit.

Republican senators in Louisiana have advanced a plan to eliminate one of two majority-Black U.S. House districts for this year's elections.

Timed for release during AAPI Heritage Month, “The A List: 15 Stories from Asian and Pacific Diasporas” has dropped on HBO Max.

The Philadelphia region is rich in golf history, yet the area's greatest contribution to the game may have come from public course in West Philadelphia.

President Donald Trump's efforts to reshape U.S. House districts have seen mixed outcomes.

Civil rights attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons learned about the Tulsa Race Massacre during college.

A new digital textbook from UCLA aims to change stereotypes about Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders by teaching their history.

A new congressional map in Tennessee splits the majority-Black city of Memphis into three districts.

Google has reached a settlement with Black employees who alleged systemic racial disparities in hiring, pay, and advancement in a lawsuit filed in 2022.

Alabama lawmakers have approved a plan for new U.S. House primaries if courts allow the state to use different congressional districts in this year’s elections.

The only person ever charged in the unsolved 2021 disappearance of Navajo elder Ella Mae Begay has been sentenced to five years in federal prison.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says the immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” always was meant to be temporary.

Tennessee has enacted a new U.S. House map that carves up a majority-Black district in Memphis.

The Justice Department has found UCLA's medical school illegally considered race in admissions.

Republicans are rapidly pursuing redistricting efforts across the South following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that affects majority-Black congressional districts.

Nayomie Mendoza is a Mexican American business owner who is celebrating Mexican history and resilience on Cinco de Mayo.

Indigenous people are gathering to honor loved ones who have gone missing or been killed.

Republicans have gained an advantage in a national congressional redistricting battle among states ahead of the midterm elections.

An Australian inquiry into antisemitism has heard from Jewish Australians who feel increasingly fearful after a massacre at a Hanukkah celebration.

A new poll indicates fewer Asian American and Pacific Islander adults are reporting overt anti-Asian attacks than during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The U.S. Supreme Court has escalated a nationwide redistricting war by removing one of the few remaining limits on partisan gerrymandering.

Nine Native American tribes are suing the federal government in a bid to stop exploratory drilling for graphite near a sacred site in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

A generation of Black Americans across the South fought in courtrooms and in the streets during the Civil Rights Movement to dismantle barriers to voting.

A federal judge in New York is protecting about 3,000 refugees from Yemen from being forced to leave the U.S., saying the Temporary Protected Status that was repeatedly granted to them should be extended again.