Colored Race News Today

Vince Lombardi once said, “Leaders aren’t born they are made.” The making of a leader often happens from early in life when a person is most impressionable by those around

Trenton gets ready to celebrate 80th anniversary of landmark desegregation case Hedgepeth Williams

Harriet M. Buss' missives home detail the future congressman's candid views on race and the complicity of Confederate women

Former Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton is struggling to pay her medical bills and has opened up a GoFundMe page to collect donations. How can this be happening in the wealthiest nation in the world?America is the only developed country in the world that doesn’t recognize healthcare as a human ...

BETHEL — “A Lecture was given Friday evening of last week at Pattee’s Hall by Mrs. Frances W. Harper, a colored lady.” starts the news item in the Oxford Democrat newspaper on Feb. 23, 1866, less than a year following the end of the Civil War. And continues with a zinger: “Many a man of […]

Hayti residents displeased with the Durham Housing Authoritys plans for Fayette Place say long-promised "urban renewal" of the Hayti community cant come soon enough.

William L. Jeffries IV tracks the health effects of race and disease outbreaks for a living at the U.S. CDC. But even he couldn’t have foreseen what would happen when he contracted monkeypox himself.

It took three doctor visits -- and a desperate call to a colleague -- for a Black scientist to get treatment.

As a Black man and a senior CDC scientist, William L. Jeffries IV knows a lot about health inequities and infectious diseases in America. Still, it took...

"I emphasize my training and my experience because if I had to go to three different places before I got diagnosed, imagine what the average gay man has to do?"