At 16, Edward Blackmon Jr. was arrested during a protest for voting rights in his Mississippi hometown. He was loaded with ...

Louisiana Republicans have eliminated an elected position days before an exoneree who overwhelmingly won the New ...

Spirit Airlines, the scrappy discounter that once rattled the industry with cheeky ads and rock-bottom fares, took its final ...

Grammy-winning rapper Prakazrel "Pras" Michel of the Fugees has reported to federal prison to begin a 14-year sentence ...

Late last January, Howard University’s men’s basketball team invited former Washington Wizards star John Wall to be an ...

Midwife Sheila Simms Watson leaned to gently press on the pregnant woman’s belly. Me’Asia Taylor lay on a bed fitted with tie ...

How are there so many new car seat “rules” that didn’t exist when my kids were young? And do I really need to follow them?

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As a member of Gen Z, I have studied the effects of social media on adolescent mental health from a perspective most ...

With gas prices high and schools scheduled to close, our winter teams playing into May is just what we needed — and long ...

These are not normal times we are living in when it comes to the partisan gerrymandering war. The state of Virginia ...

Before that he was the chief political correspondent for Slate magazine.