Willie Mays is widely considered to be the greatest baseball player of all time. The 'Say Hey Kid' had incomparable skills and an infectious smile. He dazzled on the field and off.

Code Switch co-host B.A. Parker on what to do with the debris of Southern sins as we celebrate Juneteenth.

The mom whose remains were discovered in 1983 in what's now Lake Forest, Calif., was positively identified Friday by authorities as Maritza Glean Grimmett, says the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.

Gov. Wes Moore signed an executive order pardoning more than 175,000 cannabis convictions on Monday, making Maryland the latest state to try to undo the harm imposed by criminal records.

America will celebrate Juneteenth for the fourth year since it became a federal holiday. But for Galveston families, celebrations can be traced back generations.

Phoenix police discriminate against Black, Hispanic and Native American people, unlawfully detain homeless people and use excessive force, according to a sweeping federal civil rights investigation.

Van Jones is hoping the tech sector can bring both hope and opportunity when it comes to empowering Black and Brown communities. Speaking with GPB’s Pamela Kirkland, he talked about the transformative potential of artificial intelligence and his non-profit, Dream Machine Innovation Lab.

Martin Luther King Jr. called civil rights pioneer, the Rev. James Lawson, the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence.

A new genomic analysis hints at why African Americans face a higher risk of Alzheimer’s and stroke, but a lower risk of Parkinson’s.

Plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit filed in Virginia include students who say they don't want to be forced to glorify or represent historical figures who fought to maintain slavery and white supremacy.

Gene Demby on what former NBA Clippers team owner Donald Sterling getting banned for life from the league has to do with Donald Trump and racist housing policy.

Also known as “seal parties,” the tradition brings women together to mark first catches and — more recently — other achievements as well.

The taunts and monkey gestures sparked widespread outrage — and led the soccer star and others to say the problems were far bigger than a handful of fans.

The eight employees say that since the plant opened in 1988, many systems in place have benefited white workers more than Black staff. They claim that HR has ignored “egregious incidents of racism.”

Reactions have been brutal to Canadian writer Sam Forster, who disguised himself as a Black man and traveled the U.S. to document how racism persists in society.