African Americans
Claudette Colvin, US civil rights pioneer who defied bus segregation, dies at 86
Although she remained a largely unsung figure in the civil rights movement for decades, Colvin's 1955 act of rebellion inspired Parks and others.
Why do police mistake phones for guns? Racial bias in the brain, study finds
US Black colleges and universities say they restricted campus activity after threats
Crown Heights residents defy radical antisemitic, anti-Chabad rally in New York
Pew survey: Coronavirus concerns higher among Hispanic and Black Americans
Stark racial disparities also exist in personal experiences with the coronavirus.
Short stories of the Harlem Renaissance
Short stories provide a rich look at black lives from sawmill workers to gamblers to washerwomen.
Katherine Johnson, NASA's first black scientist, dies aged 101
Johnson had a groundbreaking career of 33 years with the US space agency, working on the Mercury and Apollo missions, including the first moon landing in 1969.
Virginia man charged of targeting Jews and minorities by fake bomb threats
John William Kirby Kelley of Vienna was charged Friday by the U.S. Department of Justice with conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States
African-American Brooklyn teens learn about Jews in Holocaust class
“A lot of our students live in Crown Heights and Williamsburg, on the borders of Orthodox Jewish communities, and they notice the friction between the two groups and they don’t understand why.”
Amar’e Stoudemire pleads for end to African-American antisemitism
Former Hapoel Jerusalem and NBA star Amar’e Stoudemire pleaded for an end to antisemitism in the African-American community in a video he posted to his Instagram account on Saturday.
Reform Jewish movement votes to support reparations for African-Americans
“Combating hate is the most urgent call of our time,” Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism said.
Actress Tiffany Haddish celebrates her Judaism in lavish ‘Black Mitzvah’
The daughter of an Eritrean Jew, Haddish found out relatively late in life that she was Jewish but has embraced these Jewish roots in recent years.
Congressman Elijah Cummings' legacy carries on in Israel
“I want to send a message that we cannot as African-Americans progress without coalitions, and our greatest coalition partner has been the Jewish people in America,” cummings told WBALTV 11 in May.
Book review: Thinking of suburbs as radical
Amanda Kolson Hurley says suburbs were sites of experimentation – and could be again
