Debbie Nash-King has overcome poverty, domestic violence, and other adversities to become a pillar of strength and leadership in her community.

Judge Nelly Treviño Santos has been sworn in as the new Director and Presiding Judge of the City of Houston Municipal Courts ...

Henry L. Marsh III, the first Black mayor of Richmond and a figure who embodied the rise of African American power in the city, died Thursday night at 91. Marsh, a civil rights lawyer, was ...

City officials have finalized a deal to acquire waterfront property for a new ferry terminal in Bayonne, N.J., marking a ...

Then there’s Dorothy Counts-Scoggins, the first Black student to attend all-white ... the art department at Texas Southern ...

Tulsa’s new mayor on Tuesday backed doing more for victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and their descendants but stopped ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar far side.

Stephen Curry's wife Ayesha has been forced to shut down her beloved store Sweet July to 'protect staff', as other companies ...

Reporters identified almost 5,000 incidents in which people experiencing mental health crises had non-fatal force used ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Current and former Virginia elected leaders speaking at this weekend's service for the first Black mayor ...

In a city council meeting Tuesday, Mayor John Whitmire addressed immigration enforcement and how it's being handled at a local level. Parents who make this simple mistake raise ‘mentally weak ...

Henry L. Marsh III, a civil rights lawyer and long-serving Virginia state senator who in 1977 became the first Black mayor of Richmond, ushering in an era of African American leadership in the ...