President Donald Trump has ordered sharper scrutiny of America’s colleges and the accreditors that oversee them.

The State Bar of Texas has rescinded a speaking invitation to the NAACP’s president after the civil rights group challenged the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Education Department.

The pastor of a Georgia megachurch who led a nationwide 40-day “fast” against Target stores is now calling for a “full Target boycott.”.

Charles Burnett has been living with “Killer of Sheep” for more than half a century.

The mother of Beyoncé and Solange, Tina Knowles has released her book, “Matriarch: A Memoir.”.

Some Black churches are pledging to support the National Museum of African American History and Culture following an executive order by President Donald Trump alleging exhibits there and at other Smithsonian Institution sites have expressed a “divisive, race-centered ideology.”.

Antisemitic attacks around the world have increased dramatically since the war in Gaza began, but have declined slightly from a peak directly after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack against Israel, according to an annual report from Tel Aviv University.

The Trump administration is quietly revoking the temporary legal status of people who entered the country via an online appointment app at U.S. border crossings with Mexico.

Members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina are awaiting the release of a Department of the Interior report that could light a path for federal recognition as a tribal nation.

A growing number of Republican-led states are taking aim at driver's licenses issued by other states to people in the U.S. illegally.

The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, has pleaded guilty to capital murder.

The great-great grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone says he “shocked and horrified” to learn about seven years ago that his ancestors were slave owners in Jamaica and Guyana.

Ten years ago Saturday, Freddie Gray died from spinal injuries sustained during transport in a Baltimore police van and the city was thrust into a national debate over police brutality against Black Americans.

As U.S. colleges are pulling back on diversity, equity and inclusion practices, students of color say they are starting to lose campus mentors, move-in events, scholarships and diversity offices where they always have felt welcome on predominately white campuses.

At least $1.6 million in federal funds for projects meant to capture and digitize stories of the systemic abuse of generations of Indigenous children in boarding schools at the hands of the U.S. government have been slashed due to federal funding cuts under President Donald Trump’s administration.

Target’s chief executive officer has met with the Rev. Al Sharpton, whose civil rights organization has encouraged consumers to avoid U.S. retailers that scaled backed their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

A Massachusetts family is demanding answers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, complaining its agents smashed a car window and detained a man who was in the process of applying for asylum.

Andrew Ahn’s “The Wedding Banquet” is the most personal of remakes.

Jackie Robinson’s legacy is being celebrated around the major leagues, with the day named for the first Black baseball player of the modern era and marking the 78th anniversary of his debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Harvard University has joined the growing list of institutions targeted by the Trump administration for federal funding cuts.

Food and beverage giant PepsiCo has agreed to meet this week with civil rights advocates from the National Action Network to discuss the company’s recent decision to roll back some of its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

A key program using traditional medicine and foods to tackle chronic disease in Native American and Alaska Native communities has been gutted in the federal health layoffs.

Legendary music icon Rubby Pérez has died.

The Education Department has withdrawn from an agreement to address disparities in discipline for Native American students at a South Dakota school system, saying it was wrongly rooted in efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion.

New Zealand lawmakers have dealt an overwhelming defeat to a controversial proposed law seeking to redefine the country’s founding treaty between Māori tribes and the British Crown.

Loyal customers of Asian supermarkets and other grocery stores that specialize in selling imported food are wondering what will happen to prices given the extra-high tariffs President Donald Trump put on goods from dozens of countries.

An aid organization says five children are among eight people who have died from cholera in South Sudan after aid cuts are forcing patients to walk for hours to reach the nearest clinics.

A new poll finds sharp generational disagreements among Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders when it comes to how the U.S. should handle mass deportations.

Alabama legislators unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday that would expedite access to Medicaid for pregnant women.

The murder trial of a former Illinois sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot Sonya Massey, an unarmed black woman, in her Springfield home last summer will be moved out of the capital city.

The Trump administration has canceled $188 million in federal grants meant to reimburse New York City for sheltering migrants, saying the money was being spent to support illegal immigration.

A federal judge has rejected requests for new trials for two men convicted on human smuggling charges in the deaths of four members of a family from India who froze to death while trying to cross the Canadian border into Minnesota during a blizzard in 2022.

A teenage boy described by his family as autistic, nonverbal and intellectually disabled remains in critical condition after being shot in his backyard by Idaho police last weekend.

With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon approaching, thousands of Indigenous people marched Tuesday in Brazil’s capital, demanding the state guarantee and expand their rights to traditional lands as part of the solution to the world’s climate crisis.

The sex abuse trial of former “Dances with Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse in Nevada has again been postponed.

For 11 seasons, Henry Louis Gates Jr. has sat across from his guests on the popular PBS series “Finding Your Roots” and led them through secrets in their family tree.

A recent immigration enforcement action that resulted in the arrests of employees and owners at a Texas bakery has shocked residents of the town of Los Fresnos.

When Lakota artist Marty Two Bulls Jr. looks at the Black Hills of South Dakota, he doesn’t just see its natural beauty, he also sees a scar cut deep into the heart of the universe.

Scores of U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters have left two neighborhoods in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo part of a deal with the central government in Damascus.

If you somehow scored a Met Gala invite but can't figure out what to wear, fear not.

Thavarathnam Pushparani fought on the front lines for the now-defeated Tamil Tiger rebels against the Sri Lankan forces in its decades-long separatist war and later took to clearing the land mines on the same battle lines.

Yale Law School has fired a scholar it says refused to appear in person to answer questions about her possible ties to organizations deemed to support terrorism.

A one-of-a-kind Chicago museum hopes to change the perception of public housing in America.

The acting chief of the top federal agency for protecting worker rights has signaled a pivot toward prioritizing President Donald Trump’s campaign to stamp out diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the private and public sectors.

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Democratic Sen. Cory Booker broke the record for the longest floor speech in recorded Senate history when he bested Sen. Strom Thurmond's filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

The FBI is sending extra agents, analysts and other personnel to field offices in 10 states over the next six months to help investigate unsolved violent crimes in Indian Country.

Packed pews, rollicking singing and emotional devotions have marked Lent worship services at Notre Dame d'Haiti, the Catholic church at the heart of the largest Haitian diaspora in the United States.

A French minister has accused U.S. diplomats of interfering in the operations of French companies by sending them a letter reportedly telling them that U.S. President Donald Trump’s rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives could also apply outside of the United States.

The chairperson of an African charity co-founded by Prince Harry has accused him of orchestrating a bullying and harassment campaign to try to force her out.

The U.S. Naval Academy will no longer consider race, ethnicity or sex as a factor for admission to the service academy.

A judge has ruled that a jury from outside of Memphis will be seated in the state court trial of three former police officers charged with second-degree murder in the 2023 beating death of Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop.

The man believed to be the oldest surviving World War II paratrooper has died.

Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar who serves as a vice president was arrested in the capital.

President Donald Trump has reopened a debate in the fight over the federal government’s role in education policy after signing an executive order to dismantle the U.S. Education Department.

It was five years ago this month that COVID-19-fueled incidents against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders became so frequent that a reporting center was formed.

“ASCO: Without Permission” is director Travis Gutiérrez Senger's latest documentary and executive produced by Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna.

The Black creators of some consumers products are rethinking their business plans as major U.S. companies end or water down their diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

Senate Democrats accuse the Environmental Protection Agency of breaking the law when they cancelled grants worth more than $1.5 billion focused on improving the environment in minority communities hit hard by pollution.

The Prairie Land Potawatomi Nation has reclaimed land in Illinois that was promised to the tribe’s leader 175 years ago but stolen by the federal government 20 years later.

Testimony from parliamentary inquiries and other evidence shows that top Thai officials secretly decided to hand a group of Uyghur detainees over to China while denying plans to do so in public, giving the detainees and their advocates no chance to make a last-ditch appeal before they were bundled off and sent back to a country where where U.N. experts say they could face torture or other punishment.

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The U.S. Education Department says it is investigating dozens of universities for alleged racial discrimination, citing ties to a nonprofit organization that has helped Black and Latino students pursue business degrees.

A review of Iowa’s voter rolls shows 35 people who are not U.S. citizens were among more than 1.6 million Iowa voters who cast ballots in the 2024 general election, despite being ineligible to vote.

Cyprus and the United Nations agency for refugees are clashing over allegations that the east Mediterranean island nation continues to engage in so-called pushbacks against migrant boats departing from neighboring Syria or Lebanon.

Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear has vetoed a GOP-backed bill to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at the state's public universities.

A new study finds that a common blood test for ovarian cancer may miss some Black and Native American patients, delaying their treatment.

Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast released the Grammy-nominated album “Jubilee” and bestselling memoir “Crying in H Mart” in 2021.

The Pentagon has restored some webpages highlighting the wartime contributions of Navajo Code Talkers and other Native American veterans.

Authorities say two brothers of the Venezuelan man who killed Georgia nursing student Laken Riley will be deported along with their former roommate after they pleaded guilty to possessing fake green cards.

Mexican pop-rock giants Maná will embark on a huge North American tour this fall.

A Department of Defense webpage describing baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson’s military service has been restored.

America's ports have long struggled with dirty air that chokes nearby neighborhoods and jeopardizes the health of people living there.

A new report identifies ways to create resilient water and wastewater systems in communities hardest hit by climate change.

The Trump administration is pushing for the the U.S. Supreme Court to allow some restrictions on birthright citizenship even as legal battles continue over President Donald Trump’s orders to end what has long been seen as a constitutional promise.

In a state so often divided along partisan lines, Democrats and Republicans alike were moved to tears as they gathered in the Florida capitol Thursday to honor the life and legacy of Democratic state Sen. Geraldine Thompson, a longtime legislator, civil rights legend and educator who died on Feb. 13 at the age of 76.

Syria’s interim president has signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five years during a transitional phase.

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is on a four-day visit to Bangladesh for a first-hand look at the situation of more than 1 million Rohingya refugees as fears mount of serious aid cuts.

The Trump administration says it is dropping a civil lawsuit against the largest provider of housing for unaccompanied migrant children over alleged sexual abuse of minors at its facilities.

A new AP-NORC/AAPI Data poll shows that most Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders do not agree with the strategy of putting entire federal agencies on the chopping block, nor are they broadly on board with mass layoffs of federal workers.

As the Trump administration moves to dismantle the Education Department, officials have suggested other agencies could take over its major responsibilities.

The White House complained that Columbia University is refusing to help federal agents find people being sought as part of the government’s effort to deport participants in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

Michigan Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II is running to become the state's next Democratic governor.

Attorneys for a man accused of killing four women at Atlanta massage businesses asked a judge not to let a jury hear statements he made after his arrest.

The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights is best known for enforcing disability rights across America’s schools, but under President Donald Trump it’s being reshaped into a frontline figure in the president’s political battles.

Crews have begun work to remove the large yellow “Black Lives Matter” painted on the street one block from the White House.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has rescinded two Biden-era memos that had state agencies consider social and environmental justice factors when making decisions concerning critical national infrastructure work.

Police in Australia say an explosives-filled trailer that politicians earlier described as an antisemitic terrorism plot and a foiled mass casualty event was staged by criminals in a complicated hoax.

A war monitoring group says the death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 1,000, including nearly 750 civilians, making it one of the deadliest outbreaks of violence since Syria’s conflict began 14 years ago.

Early crew members of the voyaging canoe Hokulea have gathered in Hawaii to celebrate the vessel's 50th birthday.

Green tears were flowing when Lencia Kebede made history this week on Broadway, becoming the first Black actor to assume the role of Elphaba full time in the Broadway company of “Wicked.”.

A federal judge says he won't order immigration authorities to revert to a Biden-era policy limiting arrests at schools after officials in Denver challenged new policies from the Trump administration.

First it was Fort Bragg, named in honor of a Confederate general.

North Carolina Republicans who are resolved to promote President Donald Trump’s agenda want to compel the new Democratic governor to aid the president's immigration policy.

A San Carlos Apache teen who was reported missing and then found dead marks one of the latest tragedies as Native American communities continue to grapple with high rates of people being killed or going missing.

A 40-day boycott of Target that calls for supporters to give up shopping at the company’s stores during the Lenten period kicked off this week.

Fort Benning’s name honored a Confederate general who supported slavery for more than a century.

Abdullah Saeed wasn’t looking to write a groundbreaking comedy with “Deli Boys.”.

Prosecutors in upstate New York say seven people were indicted on first-degree murder charges in the killing of a 24-year-old man who was subjected to weeks of torture.

Mississippi’s first Black lawmaker of the 20th century died Tuesday.