Afrika Bambaataa, a hip-hop pioneer, has died of prostate cancer in Pennsylvania at age 68, according to his lawyer.

A federal judge in Phoenix has rejected a plea agreement that would have allowed a man who acknowledged beating a Navajo elder and leaving her for dead to avoid more prison time.

A federal judge from Massachusetts has blocked the Trump administration's decision to end Temporary Protected Status for over 5,000 Ethiopians.

The Democratic Party’s leading 2028 presidential prospects are warning African Americans that President Donald Trump is actively working to undermine their right to vote in 2026.

A former New York City police officer has been sentenced to three to nine years in prison for tossing a picnic cooler full of drinks at a fleeing suspect, who then crashed his motorized scooter and died.

Iranian Americans are experiencing uncertainty as the Trump administration imposes deadlines and intermediaries seek paths to avoid escalation of the war in Iran.

U.S. authorities say a Guatemalan man has pleaded guilty in federal court to a felony offense stemming from the crash of human smugglers' truck in Mexico that killed more than 50 migrants in 2021.

Two Minnesota school districts and the state’s main teachers union have asked a federal judge to block a Trump administration change in policy that gave immigration authorities a freer hand to conduct enforcement actions in and near schools.

An attorney for a man shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during an arrest in California says his client did not try to run officers over with his car and disputed claims that he has a warrant out for his arrest in El Salvador.

The wife of a U.S. Army staff sergeant has been released from a federal immigration detention facility where she spent nearly a week after being taken into custody inside a Louisiana military base.

New research reveals that financial gains for many Black-led nonprofits after George Floyd’s murder were short-lived.

The city of Minneapolis has released a video showing a chase and a scuffle that ended in a nonfatal shooting in January.

The president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque was detained by federal immigration agents, drawing accusations from local officials and religious leaders that the arrest was motivated by his statements against Israel.

Medical examiners have ruled that the death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar, five days after Border Patrol left him at a Buffalo, New York, doughnut shop, was a homicide.

The U.S. Supreme Court has finished hearing arguments over the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s order to end birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to someone in the country illegally or temporarily.

A U.S. resident of 27 years who was deported to Mexico by the Trump administration has returned home to Sacramento.

A federal judge has thrown out a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit accusing Colorado and Denver of interfering with the enforcement of immigration laws.

In 1965, Filipino and Mexican American farmworkers in California became inextricably linked when they mobilized to strike against grape growers.

Sexual abuse allegations against the revered labor leader César Chavez have led to a swift fallout, leaving many to reconcile the legacy of a man who fought tirelessly for the rights of farmworkers.

A notebook with meeting minutes and a ledger are among the Ku Klux Klan-related items found recently when a Mississippi government office was cleared out.

Some names will be familiar to the Supreme Court in the latest case involving a Black death row inmate from Mississippi.

California is the first state to require food makers to add folic acid, a crucial vitamin, to corn masa flour used to make tortillas and other foods.

Allegations that César Chavez sexually abused women and girls are reshaping how many communities honor him.

Allegations that César Chavez sexually abused women and girls are reshaping how many communities honor him.

The Trump administration has opened investigations into how race is considered in admissions at three medical schools, ratcheting up its pressure campaign against colleges and universities.

An appeals court has paused lower court rulings in Oregon that restricted federal officers' use of tear gas during protests at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland.

The U.N. General Assembly’s resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations is being welcomed across Africa.

The U.S. agency that provides health care to Native Americans has a facilities problem.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill to rename César Chavez Day to Farmworkers Day following sexual abuse allegations against the Latino labor icon.

The NAACP has named Kristen Clarke, a former Biden Justice Department official, as its next general counsel.

Jewish and Muslim communities in the United States observed some of the most sacred holidays of their respective religions despite increased security measures and concerns over hateful rhetoric as the war in the Middle East continues.

The Supreme Court grappled Tuesday with an immigration policy that has been used to turn back migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border and whether the Trump administration should be able to revive it.

The University of Southern California has canceled a gubernatorial debate scheduled for Tuesday after candidates of color were excluded and accused the university of discrimination.

Voting rights advocates in Alaska are worried that a case set to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court could end a long-standing practice of the state accepting ballots after Election Day.

Nearly 600 immigrant children were held in a Texas family detention center in recent months beyond court-mandated limits and without enough food, medical care or mental health services, with dozens languishing inside for more than three months, according to court documents filed Friday.

The shattered legacy of Latino labor rights icon César Chavez has been particularly devastating among advocates who have long fought to raise awareness about sexual harassment and abuse against women farmworkers, which remains both widespread and underreported.

Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to drop the charges against two Louisville officers tied to the 2020 raid that killed Breonna Taylor.

Clergy will be allowed to minister to immigrants in a holding facility at the headquarters of the Trump administration’s enforcement surge in Minnesota.

Within hours of explosive sexual abuse allegations against labor leader César Chavez, officials at a California university took swift action and covered a statue of him.

An immigration judge has denied the asylum claim of the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old boy photographed in a bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack as he was detained with his father during the immigration crackdown that shook Minneapolis earlier this year, a family lawyer said.

Proposals to prohibit federal immigration agents from wearing masks are gaining new life in states.

Dolores Huerta has dedicated her life to breaking down barriers and cemented her place in history as one of the nation’s most influential labor leaders, civil rights icons and feminist activists.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is supporting a proposal to rename César Chavez Day following stunning abuse allegations against the revered labor leader.

Iranian Americans are marking Nowruz this year with a mix of somber celebrations and the traditional flowers, music and dancing.

Labor rights activist Dolores Huerta revealed she was among women and girls who say they were sexually abused by César Chavez, the long-admired Latino icon, while he led the United Farm Workers union.

The United Farm Workers union says it won't participate in any celebrations of founder Cesar Chavez amid what it is calling troubling but unspecified allegations.

Gregory Bovino, who became a face of the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement tactics in large cities, says he plans to retire from the U.S. Border Patrol in the coming weeks.

Presidents come and go from the White House every four year or eight years.

Congressional Republicans are pushing voting legislation that's backed by President Donald Trump and would require voters to produce documentary proof of citizenship in order to register for federal elections.

In a story published March 13, 2026, about Wisconsin state Rep. Sylvia Ortiz-Velez's plea in a disorderly conduct case, The Associated Press erroneously reported she pleaded guilty, due to an error in the online court record.

The U.S. Postal Service is unveiling a new series of stamps Friday that feature five special cars.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture is removing a rare slave ship timber from its “Slavery and Freedom” exhibit and returning it to South Africa.

Flower garlands are synonymous with Hawaii.

A federal judge is weighing whether the government can force the University of Pennsylvania to hand over detailed employee information in an antisemitism investigation.

A court complaint says two men who brought explosives to a protest outside New York City’s mayoral mansion said they were inspired by the Islamic State extremist group.

Family, friends and fans are gathering for the funeral of urban salsa music pioneer Willie Colón.

Alabama marked the 61st anniversary of a key event in the Civil Rights Movement, when state troopers attacked voting rights marchers in Selma.

The family of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. is honoring him with a private memorial at Rainbow PUSH headquarters in Chicago.

From former presidents to an NBA Hall of Famer to prominent church pastors, stories of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.’s influence on politics, corporate boardrooms and picket lines loomed large at a celebration honoring the late civil rights leader.

As the Trump administration dismantles the Education Department, the agency is pulling back on its role policing discrimination in America’s schools.

A Haitian man confined at an Arizona immigration detention center for months after the denial of his asylum application has died in the hospital.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the enforcement of an executive order issued last year by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that designates two Muslim groups as foreign terrorist organizations.

If the adage “geography is destiny” holds true, then Cyprus should be a prime candidate as its poster child.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. has been honored in South Carolina by lying in state at the Capitol in Columbia.

A judge has sentenced a Wisconsin man who forged threats against President Donald Trump as part of a deportation scheme to 16½ years in prison.

Surveillance video of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar being dropped off at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol agents five nights before he was found dead shows him pacing by a locked door and walking through an empty parking lot.

Callers to Washington state’s driver’s license agency who select automated service in Spanish have instead been hearing an AI voice speaking English with a strong Spanish accent.

Federal reforms have made Native American health care and education programs more accessible to tribal citizens descended from enslaved Black people.

Federal health data shows Black women are more than three times likely than white women to die around the time of childbirth.

Memorial services for the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. begin in Chicago and stretch across the country to honor his long civil rights legacy.

Prosecutors say a grand jury has rejected indictments over the fatal shooting last year of a U.S. citizen by a federal immigration agent during a traffic encounter in Texas.

Some residents in the Philadelphia suburb of Quakertown are calling for the police chief to resign after a scuffle between police and students protesting ICE policies left several juveniles in custody.

A former Immigration and Customs Enforcement lawyer says the agency’s training for new deportation officers is broken as ICE ramps up its hiring.

In the 1970s, the agency that provides health care to Native Americans sterilized thousands of women without their full and informed consent.

A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriously dangerous for Christians and on the brink of war with the United States.

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office has denied a request to have the late Rev. Jesse Jackson lie in honor in the United States Capitol Rotunda due to precedents that such honors are usually only designated for presidents.

A federal judge has denied the Trump administration’s request to delay a Friday deadline to restore an exhibit on the history of slavery at Independence Mall in Philadelphia.

The Trump administration’s revocation of a scientific finding that climate change is a danger to public health is likely to affect communities of color the most.

Georgia prosecutors defending the 2002 murder conviction of a onetime Black Panther leader known as H.

Federal workers are restoring an exhibit on the people once enslaved by President George Washington in Philadelphia despite an ongoing legal fight between the city and the Trump administration.

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President Donald Trump has hosted a White House reception for Black History Month, less than two weeks after he sparked a bipartisan outcry by posting a racist video on social media that depicted former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson was an athlete from a young age, and throughout his life he immersed himself in the world of sports.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson’s two presidential runs and his life of activism inspired leaders across generations.

Jesse Jackson’s children remember his civil rights legacy and describe him as a devoted father after his death at home.

Minnesota and federal authorities are investigating claims that immigration officers shattered a Mexican man's skull while taking him into custody last month.

An immigration judge has dismissed the Trump administration’s deportation case against Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian graduate student and Columbia protest leader.

Conservation and historical organizations are suing the Trump administration over National Park Service policies that the groups say erase history and science from America’s national parks.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson kept up his more than half-century-long fight for civil and human rights through his final years despite challenges over his health, the coronavirus pandemic, racial injustice and political divisions.

Eulogies are pouring in after the death of the Rev. Jesse L.

Many people who knew and worked with the Rev. Jesse L.

A federal judge has ordered an exhibit about nine people enslaved by George Washington to be restored at his former home in Philadelphia after President Donald Trump’s administration took it down last month.

Upscale Chinese American restaurants, from San Francisco to New York City, have sprung up in recent years, garnering buzz beyond Chinese food takeout staples with refined tasting menus.

The federal agency that provides health care to Native Americans will no longer treat tooth decay with dental fillings containing mercury.

Federal authorities have announced an investigation into two immigration officers who appeared to have made untruthful statements under oath about a shooting in Minneapolis last month.

New Zealand's Court of Appeal has finished hearing an appeal from the Christchurch mosque gunman, in proceedings that were quiet and tightly controlled.

The Trump administration is ending Operation Metro Surge, a sweeping immigration crackdown in Minnesota that sparked weeks of protests and left two U.S. citizens dead.

An immigration judge has dismissed the deportation case against a landscaper who was arrested in California last year.

California’s top prosecutor is opening a civil rights investigation into how delayed evacuations impacted a historically Black community ravaged by one of the January 2025 Los Angeles-area wildfires.

Jim Ratcliffe, the billionaire co-owner of Manchester United, has apologized after saying Britain has been “colonized” by immigrants.