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Actor Danny Glover, author Ta-Nehisi Coates, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), and others testified on slavery reparations before a House Judiciary subcommittee. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee …

Black leaders and scholars outlined ways minority groups during a Donald Trump administration can protect such civil rights as the right to vote. They spoke at the Institute of the Black Wor…

Governor Larry Hogan (R-MD), Acting Social Security Commissioner Carolyn Colvin, and others delivered remarks at the National Urban League’s conference. They discussed issues facing African …

Representative John Conyers (D-MI) held a town hall meeting on the implications of the Detroit bankruptcy filing. Earlier this summer, Detroit became the largest municipality in U.S. history…

This conference explored issues concerning the causes, costs, and cures for violence in this country. Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly moderated this panel on solutions to violence, which she felt o…

“African-American’s and the Political Process,” a portion of the National Conference of African-American Organizations conference that focused on the role of African-American’s in government…

Exiled Haitian President Aristide, a Catholic priest, spoke to an audience on efforts to restore democracy in Haiti following his ouster in 1991. He also discussed U.N. efforts to investigat…

The National Urban League released a report entitled, “The State of Black America.” Members of the league spoke on the report that examined issues affecting African Americans.