Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-First Century is intended to serve as a resource for those looking to better understand contemporary issues in Black America.
WASHINGTON — The next time a pot shop gets a visit from the feds, it won’t necessarily be from drug enforcement agents looking to shut the operation down.
Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, a prominent attorney and human rights advocate who persuaded local voters into accepting a sales tax to fix crumbling roads and infrastructure in Mississippi’s capital city, died Tuesday, authorities said. He was 66.
Nearly half of the States in the U.S. currently allow the use of Cannabis for either recreational or medical purposes
The Hinds County coroner and city officials confirmed his death. Click here to watch 16 WAPT News coverage “Our father passed today (Tuesday) and we thank you for all the…
Marijuana’s legal, but people of color are still disproportionately criminalized and incarcerated for drug use.
If there’s one issue that won Bill de Blasio the New York Democratic mayoral primary in September, on his way to a crushing 74 percent to 24 percent victory in the November general election…
When Americans think about slavery, we think about the Civil War, cotton plantations in Georgia, and the legacy that those centuries of bondage left in the United States.
Everyone knows the statistics.
Black men suffer disproportionately from poverty, school failure, family instability, unemployment, incarceration and homicide.
On Saturday, a Florida jury convicted Michael Dunn on several counts of attempted murder for firing ten rounds into a vehicle full of teens after a dispute over loud music, but they deadlocked on the question of whether Dunn was guilty of first degree murder for killing 17-year-old Jordan Davis.
The parents of Jordan Davis, a black Florida teen who was shot in an altercation over loud music, spoke to Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts on Wednesday morning about the controversial verdict in their son’s death.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government is facing its biggest challenge since his electoral victory on April 14, 2013 – still unrecognized by the U.S. government.