Fruitvale Station became a landmark in the community almost immediately after Mehserle gunned Grant down there. Situated in the middle of a bustling Latino immigrant neighborhood, Fruitvale is a ...

Coca-Cola’s "It’s Beautiful" commercial premiered this past weekend at the Super Bowl to a social media storm led by English-only trolls and anti-multiculturalist knuckle-draggers. But the spot, which ...

Following the outpouring of support, Montes, who was deported nearly two years ago, was granted an exceptionally rare permission from federal immigration authorities to return to the U.S. to attend ...

An estimated 50,000 people are expected to visit the Tampa Bay area during the Republican National Convention and comedian and author Baratunde Thurston is out there taking his own count of how many ...

A group of roughly 80 LGBTQ migrants separated from the much larger Central American caravan heading north, and were among the first to arrive at the U.S. border on Sunday (November 10). The group— ...

At a press conference yesterday (August 10), Los Angeles Police Department Deputy Chief Robert Arcos presented its account of the fatal officer-involved shooting of Jesse Romero, a 14-year-old Mexican ...

In the video produced by Adalah-NY, the artists protest travel restrictions on Palestinian cultural figures and officially "endorse" the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions Movement to end the Israeli ...

Metta World Peace is coming off of suspension. The Los Angeles Lakers forward was suspended seven games for aggressively elbowing another player just before the start of the NBA playoffs. The All Star ...

What the state of Connecticut has shown is that a transgender teenage girl–one it acknowledges has been the victim of abuse–can be placed in a juvenile facility for boys as well as in an adult prison ...

There’s a museum in East St. Louis, Ill., that’s dedicated to pioneering African-American dancer and choreographer Katherine Dunham. Known largely for developing a dance pedagogy that later became ...

The United States government is set to collect DNA samples from asylum-seekers detained at the southern border, The Associated Press reported Monday (October 21). A spokesperson from the U.S.

Everyone is talking about Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson getting stuck in an elevator. But this is the real public housing story of the day.