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Within weeks of the protest that McNeil and three friends started, sit-ins were launched in more than 50 cities in nine states.

Police say D'Vontaye Mitchell was killed after he caused a disturbance, leading to an altercation with workers.

The singer said follow-up scans detected cancer months after he underwent surgery to have his prostate removed.

Around the country, programs offering in-state tuition rates to immigrants that once had wide bipartisan support increasingly have come under criticism from Republicans.

Raveling played at Villanova in the early 1960s and became an assistant, launching a coaching career that spanned to 1994. He then joined Nike as a marketing director.

Eastside Golf, an apparel brand founded by two HBCU alums, is disrupting a sport that traditionally prides itself on exclusivity by opening up the game to the masses.

In January, Kathryn Jones began a quest to visit every exhibit at the Smithsonian's museums in Washington, D.C., and read every plaque. Her journey has taken on new urgency.

Using a business model that centers community over profit, the Bay Area rapper is redefining success as an independent artist.

Mayor Patrick Braxton won Newbern's first election since at least the 1960s. He received 66 votes; his opponent got 26.

Townsend, an American who is ranked No. 1 in doubles, said Ostapenko, a Latvian who won the 2017 French Open, told her she has “no class.”

Cook weathered racist attacks as a child and is a pioneer as the first Black woman to serve as Fed governor, a job she's battling trump to keep.