Race

This weekend marks the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education — the Supreme Court decision declaring separate schools were inherently unequal.A…

Miami-Dade County’s Black Affairs Advisory Board and Hispanic Affairs Advisory Board spent four hours talking race, diversity and inclusion yesterday....

Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is being punished for making racist remarks in an audio recording that was made public Friday. His fine is the maximum allowed under the NBA's charter.

The sports world is still buzzing about the racist statements made by Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. Cole Pepper gave his take on the story…

As racial tensions were rising in 1964, Mary Peabody, the mother of the Massachusetts governor, went to St. Augustine, Fla., to protest segregation.

It's a word that entered the American lexicon around the early twentieth century. Over the years, "thug" has often been associated with images of…

For 25 years now, the Marian Anderson String Quartet has been bringing a unique brand of African-American history and spirit to stages across the…

Michael Dunn, Jimmy Ryce, and Kelly Mathis are in the headlines today.Welcome to WJCT First Read, your daily weekday morning round-up of stories from the…

For 47 years, Bishop Rudolph McKissick Sr. was at the pulpit every Sunday at Bethel Baptist Institutional Church in Jacksonville. This month he preached…

Jacksonville's 6th Annual Urban Education Symposium, a major initiative to reverse the high school drop out rates for the city’s black male students, is…