Associate Professor of African American and . NASHVILLE PRIDE — Nashville's first Latina judge has taken the oath of office before overflowing crowd at Casa Azafrán. ..…

Rachel Dolezal, recently charged with welfare fraud, became Spokane chapter president of the NAACP by falsely claiming she was African-American. . ... That’s why arriving Juan Garcias became “Johnnies,” African-Americans were christened Eloise rather than Lashawndra,..…

He called for a higher minimum wage, denounced police killings of African-Americans, which he described as “state violence,” and embraced the Black Lives Matter movement. ... Turnout among Latinos is traditionally low, but given how Obama energized turnout among..…

(AP) — The last of 10 young white people who repeatedly assaulted African-Americans in Mississippi’s capital city received the maximum sentence of 10 years in prison Friday, completing a long-running federal prosecution in the case. ..…

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Drawing on over decade of ethnographic research and textual, visual, and archival sources, Patricia de Santana Pinho investigates African American roots tourism, complex, poignant kind of travel that provides profound personal and collective meaning for those searching for black identity and..…

Puerto Ricans, have more mitochondria-related nuclear genes of Native American origin than expected compared to genes from the rest of the genome that code for other functions.. Similarly, African Americans, have more mitochondria-related nuclear genes of African origin..…

The only way to 'diversity, the calf of Democratic Party, is to increase the number of women, African- Americans, Asians and Hispanics, and thereby reduce the number of white men, in the column.. ..…

In its 2006 Concluding Observations, the Committee expressed its concern regarding the treatment of poor people, and in particular African Americans in Hurricane Katrina and reconstruction efforts, and recommended the US increase efforts to ensure that the rights of the poor, and in..…