Beauty pageant can ban transgender contestants, US appeals court rules
Anita Green, who is transgender, has competed in several pageants including Miss Montana USA, Miss Earth and Ms. World Universal.
Passenger crawls off plane after allegedly being asked to pay for wheelchair service
Jetstar says there was a miscommunication between the staff and passenger.
No US-born Black players on expected World Series rosters for the 1st time since 1950
Only once since Jackie Robinson broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947 has there been a World Series without at least one Black player. It happened in 1950 when the New York Yankees played the Phillies.
Ulta Beauty defends transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney after podcast backlash
“Beauty is for everyone,” the company noted, adding that said Mulvaney and the host “deserve our respect.”
Exhumations resume in bid to identify Tulsa Race Massacre victims
Historians say the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre left between 75 and 300 people dead, while the thriving business district known as Black Wall Street was destroyed.
Police investigating hundreds of hateful messages found scattered around Carrollton
Carrollton police confirmed that they were called out to the neighborhood around 7 p.m. Sunday.
Suburban high school drops 'king' and 'queen' homecoming titles
A suburban high school dropped the ‘king' and ‘queen’ titles for Homecoming this year in order to give all students the chance to be involved, the school said Monday.
KSU students find racial slur spray painted across hall of off-campus apartment complex
Some students of Kennesaw State University say someone spray-painted racial slurs on the wall of their off-campus apartment complex.
Blind Arizona woman to pilot plane across the country: 'We don’t have limits'
Kaiya Armstrong spent months preparing for the journey of a lifetime as a student at the Foundation for Blind Children in Phoenix.
Rideshares leave blind Dallas man stranded on the side on the road because of service dog
A legally blind Dallas man was left stranded when multiple rideshares refused to pick up the man and his service dog after a trip to the vet.
NASA astronaut Nicole Mann makes history as first Native American woman in space
Nicole Mann, a member of the Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes, is headed to the International Space Station as commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission.
City of Philadelphia offers formal apology for running experiments on inmates at Holmesburg Prison
According to the city, the experiments were conducted from the 1950s to the 1970s and purposely exposed the incarcerated individuals, many of whom were Black and poor, to multiple agents, including viruses, fungus and asbestos.
Byron Allen’s $10B discrimination lawsuit against McDonald’s can move forward, judge rules
The lawsuit claims McDonald’s spends less than $5 million of its $1.6 billion annual TV advertising budget on Black-owned media.
On 67th anniversary of Emmett Till’s death, a look back at his case this past year
From renewed investigations to an unpublished memoir to Hollywood retellings, Emmett Till’s name and story have been in the news a number of times over the past year. Here is a look at the instances.
Deadline fast approaching for Black women's financial aid program
Time is running out for Black women in College Park to apply to a new financial assistance program that could give each of them more than $20,000-- no questions asked.
LGBTQ state lawmakers express concerns about future of same-sex marriage in Georgia
A group of LGBTQ state lawmakers held a news conference at the state Capitol Monday to express their concerns about the future of same-sex marriage in Georgia after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Singapore to decriminalize gay sex while continuing to prohibit same-sex marriage
Singapore’s prime minister also vowed not to shake its traditional family and societal norms, including how marriage is defined, what children are taught in schools, and what is shown on television.
All-Black, female crew operates American Airlines flight out of DFW
The American Airlines flight was meant to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first Black woman to earn a pilot's license, Bessie Coleman.
Midtown's iconic rainbow crosswalk vandalized with symbol of hate
Atlanta road crews worked into Wednesday evening removing vandalism to Midtown’s iconic rainbow crosswalk.
GBI investigating West Point officer accused of saying N-word on doorbell camera
Tomeshia Madden, who lives in that home, says she and her teenage son no longer feel comfortable living in West Point