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Abbas Alawieh, a spokesperson for the group Listen to Michigan, pictured at a coffee shop in Detroit, Mich., on Thursday.

What could Biden's Israel-Gaza stance mean for his campaign? Michigan is an early test

6:01am February 25, 2024

Some Arab American, Muslim and young voters in the Detroit area plan to vote "uncommitted" in Tuesday's primary. They want to send a message to Biden: Call for a ceasefire or lose us in November.

Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley talks to the media after voting Saturday in Kiawah Island, S.C. Haley called former President Donald Trump's comments about Black voters "disgusting."

Haley calls Trump's 'disgusting' comments about Black people a 'huge warning sign'

2:00pm February 24, 2024

by Stephen Fowler

Nikki Haley says inflammatory comments Donald Trump made about Black people Friday is more proof he will hurt the GOP in the November general election.

University of Mississippi Black students compare campus life of today and 1970

5:06pm February 23, 2024

by Debbie Elliott

University of Mississippi students meet members of the school's Black Student Union who were jailed in 1970 for protesting token integration, comparing their demands back then to campus life today.

Black and Jewish leaders fought for civil rights. Now the relationship is fragmented

5:09am February 23, 2024

The relationship between Black and Jewish communities is as storied as it is fraught. The Israel-Hamas war, however, is straining this "Grand Alliance."

National

The latest in California's reparations efforts

5:26pm February 21, 2024

by Adrian Florido

California legislators have introduced more than a dozen bills in response to a report issued by the reparations taskforce. Notably absent is cash compensation for the descendants of enslaved people.

Muralist William Rankins Jr. stands in front of some of his murals in the Ollie's Trolley courtyard in Cincinnati. Ollie's is a restaurant.

Arts

In Cincinnati, redevelopment can mean artwork — and people — disappear

6:00am February 21, 2024

by Nick Swartsell

Cincinnati muralist William Rankins Jr. is losing his work to redevelopment.

Guillermo A. Santos on his high school graduation day in 2021, with his father, Guillermo Jose Santos. The elder Santos died later the same year of a drug overdose.

In Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood, heroin is far from 'chic'

5:00am February 20, 2024

by Guillermo A. Santos

A young poet and writer who lost his father to opioid addiction says there's nothing cool about what the drugs did to his dad. So why are peers trying to look like emaciated people with addiction?

An Apple TV+ animated special shows how Franklin, the first Black Peanuts character, meets Charlie Brown and friends in Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin.

Arts

The first Black 'Peanuts' character finally gets his origin story in animated special

6:00pm February 19, 2024

by Barry Gordemer

The origin story of the first Black Peanuts character is streaming on Apple TV+.

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Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks to members of the media during a campaign event at Thunder Tower Harley Davidson Monday, Feb. 12 in Elgin, S.C. On the campaign trail, Haley has stepped up attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris, drawing parallels between herself and the vice president.

Nikki Haley's latest target on the campaign trail? Kamala Harris

5:00am February 17, 2024

by Sarah McCammon

Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley has recently been directing attacks at Vice President Kamala Harris as she highlights concerns about President Biden's age.

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President Biden delivers remarks Thursday at the White House. Biden addressed the special counsel's report on his handling of classified material, and the status of the war in Gaza.

How ageism against Biden and Trump puts older folks at risk

1:32pm February 16, 2024

by Leah Donnella

Recently, conversation about the age of the 2024 presidential candidates has risen to a fever pitch. That's the sign of a deeper problem with how our culture views aging.