Robert Major Walker made history in 1988 when he was elected as the first Black mayor of Vicksburg, a Mississippi River town ...

More Black women have been elected to state legislatures over the last decade, creating a pipeline to Congress and other offices, a new report found.

San Francisco and Chicago offer a split-screen in 2025: one mayor riding optimism, the other facing record-low approval.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch delivered remarks at the ...

Why push for policies that improve the lives of Ohioans when you can race-bait and shake your finger at political opponents at the same time?

Danny Davis, the 83-year-old dean of Illinois’ U.S. House delegation and a voice for progressive politics for decades, announced Thursday that he will not seek election to a 16th term representing his ...

The city’s specialized high schools have long been racially stratified. The latest admissions figures show that segregation may deepen on those campuses this fall.

The City of Danville decided to move forward with a special event unveiling a historical marker commemorating the Riot of 1883 on Thursday morning, despite Wednesday’s shocking attack on Council ...

Former Vice President Kamala Harris' decision Wednesday to bypass the 2026 contest pushed the campaign into a new phase, lacking its biggest potential star and the presumptive early favorite. Harris' ...

Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Officer Islam, who was killed in Monday’s massacre, had been posthumously promoted to detective first grade. Mayor Eric Adams was among the other speakers at a ...

Slightly less than half of U.S. adults believe that Black people face “a great deal” or “quite a bit” of discrimination in ...