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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.

A social media video shows the woman admitting to using the slur and then appearing to double down and raising a middle finger to a man who confronted her.

Till, 14, was killed in 1955 by two white men who were acquitted by an all-white jury but later told a reporter that they kidnapped and murdered the boy.

A federal judge had ruled that the more than $1 billion in cuts to research grants, like studies into HIV prevention, violated federal law.

The president is also planning to extend his review of museums beyond the Washington-based institution, a White House official said.

The provisions in a new Mississippi policy would bar discussions of "divisive concepts" related to race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation and national origin in schools.

For rappers, strip clubs can be more than dens of debauchery, according to a new docuseries on Atlanta's famed Magic City.

A video showing officers punching and dragging William McNeil from his car in a February traffic stop sparked nationwide outrage.

Payton Gendron, a white supremacist, could face the death penalty if convicted on federal charges in the 2022 mass shooting in New York.