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My husband Brad and I were married in our small church two and a half years ago in a ceremony that included just the priest and two witnesses who were volunteers from the church. Yet, despite its small size, the wedding was a monumental experience, made much more so that it was held within those church walls where we worshiped, ...

President Barack Obama delivered a stirring eulogy at the funeral for the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, a South Carolina state senator and pastor who was one of nine people shot and killed at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church last week. “The Bible calls us to hope. To persevere, and have faith in things not seen. They were still living by ...

Politicians and business leaders have scrambled in the past week to distance themselves from the Confederate flag, an emblem with a legacy that now includes the shooting of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina. Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley (R) had the Confederate flag removed from his state’s Capitol grounds, and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) called for her ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Thursday that housing policies and practices with discriminatory outcomes can be challenged under the Fair Housing Act, even if there was no intent to discriminate. At issue in the case, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project, was the validity of a theory known as disparate impact, ...

OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — An unarmed black man was fatally shot Thursday by officers who thought he had a weapon when they were called to a home from which he was barred by protective order, police said. Spencer Lee McCain, 41, was shot about 1 a.m. at the condominium in Owings Mills while a woman who said he threatened ...

By David Adams CHARLESTON, S.C., June 26 (Reuters) – South Carolina will take a step forward in healing the wounds of last week’s mass shooting when President Barack Obama arrives on Friday to deliver the eulogy for the pastor of the historic church where the attack took place. Reverend Clementa Pinckney, a widely admired state senator and pastor of Charleston’s ...

A new study found that a majority of white Americans believe that protests improve the country — that is, unless those protesting are black. According to a recent survey conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute, 67 percent of white Americans believe protesting against the government’s unfair practices are good for the nation. However, when a separate sample of white ...

When it comes to resolving the nation’s ongoing issues surrounding police misconduct, rapper A$AP Rocky suggests the conversation should begin with addressing black-on-black crime. Last week the rapper-actor was invited by The Oxford Union, The Debate Society of Oxford University, to speak to students in a wide-ranging discussion that touched on music, violence in the black community, and the countless ...

FLORISSANT, Mo. — Hillary Clinton on Tuesday told a crowd at a black church near where the police killing of an unarmed teen propelled the “Black Lives Matter” movement that “all lives matter.” During a campaign stop minutes from where a white police officer fatally shot black teenager Michael Brown last summer, Clinton told a mostly African-American crowd at Christ ...

One of the biggest misconceptions about the AIDS epidemic in the United States is that it’s over. This belief is also part of why the disease is so dangerous — and why campaigns like this week’s National HIV Testing Week are so necessary. Nationally, 1.2 million Americans live with HIV or AIDS and about 50,000 more are diagnosed with HIV ...