Civil Rights
Carolyn Bryant Donham, who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, has died in hospice care in Louisiana.
Video footage of Holly Barlow-Austin’s last 48 hours in jail show her struggling to move, using her hands to feel her way around the cell.
Happy Kwanzaa! HuffPost Black Voices Editor Taryn Finley takes a look at the history and traditions of the holiday that celebrates African heritage and Black American culture.
"I expected her to say, 'How did you get my number?' I expected her to hang up. But she didn't."
WHAT'S HAPPENING
A former undercover police officer left a note alleging that he assisted the NYPD and FBI in the murder of Malcolm X.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced it is investigating whether Mississippi state agencies discriminated against the state’s majority-Black capital city by refusing to fund improvements for its failing water system.
Iran's "Woman! Life! Freedom!" protests continue despite crackdowns, but the movement's future is unclear.
Ta-Nehisi Coates testifies before Congress in support of reparations for slavery. The day before, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell rejected the idea, saying, “I don’t think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago, for whom none of us currently living are responsible is a good idea.”
A former Kansas City, Kansas, police detective has been indicted on federal charges accusing him of using his position to sexually abuse two women.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has a bogus claim that white men are the most persecuted group in America, and it’s pushing them to porn.