NPR and WBUR announced today three strategic new appointments at Here & Now, the live midday news program heard on 500 NPR member stations across the country. The changes mark an exciting new chapter ...

Black Girls in Art Spaces has nearly 40 chapters across the US and cultivates communities in which Black women and girls engage with art

One of the nation’s oldest civil rights organizations on Thursday declared a “state of emergency” for antidiscrimination policies, personal freedoms and Black economic advancement in response to President Donald Trump 's upending of civil rights precedents and the federal agencies traditionally tasked with enforcing them. The National Urban League's annual State of Black America report accuses the federal government of being “increasingly determined to sacrifice its founding principles” and “threatening to impose a uniform education system and a homogenous workforce that sidelines anyone who doesn’t fit a narrow, exclusionary mold," according to a copy obtained by The Associated Press. The report, to be released Thursday at the group’s conference in Cleveland, Ohio, criticizes the administration for downsizing federal agencies and programs that enforce civil rights policies.

Korir followed in his brother Wesley's footsteps while Lokedi denied Hellen Obiri a third straight win.

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Pope Francis, voice for the poor who reshaped the Catholic Church, dies at 88, the Vatican has announced.