Erica Schwartz addressed the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Wednesday. Schwartz is the nominee to become director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Finn ...

Tennessee state Rep. Justin Pearson speaks in opposition to a plan by Elon Musk's xAI to use gas turbines for a new data center during an April rally in Memphis ahead of a public comment meeting on ...

Hours after Wilberforce University freshman Savanna Jones texted her friends that she was “lowkey scared” to join an underground social club, a picture of her passed out on a bed began circulating ...

Capital B is headed to Augusta, Georgia! Capital B’s local reporting has helped communities secure resources, demand ...

As Black voters stand to lose representation, one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the U.S. is leaning on a playbook that allowed it to radically increase Black political participation at ...

Berean Village residents question whether the transit agency will follow through with a possible shuttle expansion.

In one of the worst states in the country for violence against Black women, survivors ask: What does justice actually look ...

While no single strategy will be a silver bullet, there’s been renewed focus on state Voting Rights Acts, youth-led movements ...

Local law enforcement found a body on Horn Island matching the description of the 18-year-old's and is waiting for DNA ...

Communities in Texas and Louisiana say U.S. control of Venezuela’s heavy crude will worsen “environmental racism” along the Gulf. On Saturday morning, John Beard woke up to news that he’d been ...

Tamitha Dill worries her house could be in danger every time it rains. Her northeast Jackson neighborhood is highly ...

As Chokwe Antar Lumumba joins a list of Black mayors caught in scandal, the FBI denies targeting Black leaders.