Encore: A new mode in MLB video game celebrates historical Black all-stars
A video game officially licensed by Major League Baseball has an all-new mode featuring players from the Negro National League.
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Encore: Civil rights tourism may protect Mississippi history
Civil rights trails across the South have proven to be an economic driver. In Mississippi, there's a new push to better tell that history. And now, the federal government is getting involved.
Alabama governor ousts a top education official over a book's 'woke concepts' on race
Gov. Ivey replaced her director of early childhood education over the use of a teacher training book that Ivey said teaches "woke concepts" because of language about inclusion and structural racism.
An Indiana woman is charged with a federal hate crime in alleged anti-Asian bus attack
A federal grand jury indicted Billie R. Davis, who is accused of stabbing an 18-year-old university student on a bus in Bloomington "because of the victim's race and national origin," officials said.
The former Minnesota officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright will be freed Monday
Kim Potter, who was convicted of manslaughter after mistaking her handgun for a Taser in the 2021 incident, is set to be released from prison after serving 16 months. Daunte Wright was 20 years old.
Crump says Kaepernick to pay for autopsy for inmate who died in 'appalling conditions'
The former NFL quarterback is assisting the family of Lashawn Thompson, a Georgia jail inmate who died last year while covered in insects, civil rights attorney Ben Crump said.
Diversity in medicine can save lives. Here's why there aren't more doctors of color
The U.S. desperately needs more Black and Hispanic doctors, research shows. But financial pressures and discrimination can keep young people from even applying to med school.
Tyre Nichols' family sues the Memphis police force, the officers and the city
The lawsuit compared Nichols' fatal police beating to the 1955 killing of Emmett Till, saying the 29-year-old suffered a beating "endured at hands of a modern-day lynch mob."
As schools face calls to drop Native American mascots, some could lose state money
New York on Tuesday became the latest state in the nation to move to force schools to do away with the use of Native American team names or mascots. Those that don't comply risk losing their funding.
'Biting the Hand': Korean American author calls for weaponizing invisibility
Korean American author Julia Lee pulls no punches about the experience of being Asian in the U.S. today, in her memoir Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America.