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The Essence Festival has been celebrating African American culture in the United States for more than two decades. Now, it’s devoting a day to Nigeria’s Nollywood film industry.

The Supreme Court’s landmark decision to bar colleges and universities from considering race as a specific basis for admission will make it more difficult for schools to achieve a diverse student population, civil rights leaders and education advocates say.

The White House has been preparing for months for a potential Supreme Court ruling gutting affirmative action, even as President Joe Biden expressed optimism late last year that the court would uphold consideration of race in college admissions.

The Supreme Court’s landmark decision on Thursday to gut affirmative action has made it unlawful for colleges to take race into consideration as a specific factor in admissions.

New York (CNN) — Starbucks will clarify its policy on Pride decorations following criticism and strikes at unionized stores.

An Australian physical education teacher who murdered his wife so he could start a new life with a teenage student has been found guilty of sexual abuse.

As the 70th anniversary of Playboy draws near, the brand is attempting radical change.

The North Carolina General Assembly on Tuesday gave final approval to a bill that includes some last-minute changes to the state’s recently passed abortion law.

(CNN) — Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran charged in the death of a homeless Black man he put in a chokehold on the New York City subway, has pleaded not

Jurors began a third day of deliberations Wednesday to mull a verdict in the trial of the former school resource officer who stayed outside during the 2018 massacre at a Parkland, Florida, high school in a rare trial focused on law enforcement response to a mass shooting.