In a move that voting rights advocates have predicted for months, the Department of Justice on Monday reversed course on a major voting rights case in Texas.

She hasn’t been on the job even a week and already the controversial billionaire Republican Education Secretary Betsy DeVos—who has no previous experience in education policy or teaching—has flunked history class.

In the days leading up to Trump’s inauguration, Fusion is highlighting some of the issues most important to our readers and what to do to prepare for the incoming administration, which looks pretty frightening to many. Today, we’re tackling racism.

President Barack Obama introduced it on a federal level. The Department of Education put it into effect for higher education across America. More than 150 cities and counties did it, according to the National Employment Law Project.

It happened again on Tuesday.

While watching video of unarmed black man Terence Crutcher fall to the ground after Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby fatally shot him, I thought to myself: Of course this happened in Oklahoma.

The first football game I ever attended at Howard University, a historically black college in Washington, D.C., started off like most football games.

When our marching band began playing “The Star-Spangled Banner,” thousands of spectators in the stands stood quietly, some hand over heart, others reflexively mouthing…

In the spring of 2013, a coalition of progressive groups led by the NAACP’s North Carolina chapter united to protest a string of regressive laws enacted by the state’s Republican-dominated legislature. Over just a few months, North Carolina’s legislature rejected Medicaid expansion, cut unemployment benefits, raised…

Thousands of peaceful marches continued throughout the U.S. on Friday night, one day after Micah Xavier Johnson opened fire on police, killing five officers, at what was an otherwise peaceful Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas.

Surf City police chief Mike Halstead has retired, effective immediately, after a recent rant against the Black Lives Matter movement was found on his personal Facebook page, WECT reports.

For the past three summers, activists and supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement have marched in the streets of New York City, seeking to raise awareness of African-American victims of institutional violence.

My ten-year high school reunion happened this past Saturday in Florence, KY. That's in Northern Kentucky — near Cincinnati, Ohio — close to what many consider the physical border between the North and the South. I didn't even understand how racist the school was until I was on the plane and I suddenly remembered that…

Silicon Valley boasts the most thriving startup scene in the country. But the unconventional companies hawking the latest and greatest in apps and software also display a serious lack of diversity.

Jesenia and Jenni Ruiza, the comedic duo behind the Internet webseries, "Becoming Ricardo," joined Alicia to weigh-in on the recent Republican social media blunder.