A judge has ruled that a Black defendant’s right to a fair trial would be harmed if the jury heard the case in a Virginia courtroom lined with portraits of white jurists

The University of Maryland is breaking with tradition in order to honor its diversity. The school announced it will name two of its new dorms after people of color who broke barriers at the university. Prince George’s County Bureau Chief Tracee Wilkins spoke with one of those history makers.

A state panel has recommended that a statue of civil rights hero Barbara Johns should represent Virginia at the U.S. Capitol

The sister of a Black man killed by Richmond police in 2018 has criticized state lawmakers and Gov. Ralph Northam for what she called a “watered down, ineffective” law that will dispatch mental health providers along with police to help stabilize people in crisis situations

Vandalism at four downtown Washington churches after rallies in support of President Donald Trump are exposing rifts among people of faith as the nation confronts bitter post-election political divisions

Johns Hopkins University, whose researchers have been at the forefront of the global response to COVID-19, announced on Wednesday that its founder owned enslaved people during the 19th century, a revelation for the Baltimore-based school that had taken pride in the man purportedly being a staunch abolitionist.

A midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy has become the first Black woman selected for the academy’s top student leadership position

Bruce Carver Boynton, a civil rights pioneer who inspired the “Freedom Rides,” has died at the age of 83

Johnette Iris’ entire family is in the D.C. area. But she lives in Rwanda.  She told News4 she lives in the African nation in part because of racism in the United States. Life is different in Kigali.  “Microaggressions are not part of my every day. They’re not part of my any day,” Iris said.  Iris is one of many...

A commission in Maryland has received a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to research and address unsolved lynchings of Black people in the state