Louisiana Sen. Troy Brown battles efforts to expel him from the state Senate. He pleaded no contest to domestic violence charges.
Cartoonist Glenn McCoy who caught heat Tuesday for depicting U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos as Ruby Bridges -- the African-American girl in Norman Rockwell's southern school desegregation painting "The Problem We All Live With" -- explained his controversial decision Wednesday.
Dailene Rosario, who is 14 weeks pregnant, said that the attack happened after she refused to let the police in without a warrant.
Louisiana state district court judge Mike Erwin denied this week that he used a derogatory racial slur and referred to a Black woman visiting a bar as the N-word.
Andrew Puzder, President Donald Trump's pick for labor secretary, withdrew his nomination Wednesday afternoon amid controversy surrounding domestic abuse allegations and inappropriate business practices.
Scholastic plans to publish a children's book on social activism. It's written by 12-year-old Marley Dias.
The Tallahatchie County Courthouse, where Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were tried and acquitted in Emmett Till’s death in 1955 is being converted into a museum.