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Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker has proposed a $1 fee on all Uber, Lyft and other rideshare trips in the city to help fund public schools.
Augustus Tolton was ordained in Rome in 1886. Previously, the only Black Catholic priests in the US had been men who presented themselves as white.
Blood-and-soil style violent nationalism infuses everything the Trump administration is doing.
A former FBI agent-turned-scholar says using National Guard troops to reduce crime in cities such as Chicago and Baltimore would violate legal prohibitions against domestic military law enforcement.
Democrats are pushing back against Trump by testing out some new tactics.
Both holidays arose at the same time, nearly 150 years ago, in the midst of an explosive labor uprising.
White Americans, especially older citizens, tend to be more bothered than Black Americans or Latinos by demonstrators waving Mexican flags – and even US flags – during protests.
Repelled by American racism, thousands of free people of color bounced between New Orleans and Haiti in the 19th century.
Cardinal Robert F. Prevost took the name Pope Leo XIV – an apparent nod to Pope Leo XIII, who championed the rights of workers and criticized the conditions in which they lived.
A perfect storm of rising costs and declining revenues is stressing many US city budgets – and the Trump administration isn’t likely to send much help.
Nat King Cole’s success paved the way for future generations of Black artists.
Both genres recently celebrated big birthdays. From their origins in the clubs and jams of the 1970s and 1980s, house and hip-hop have become global cultural forces.
Donald Trump’s false claims about Haitian immigrants echo an enduring element in the history of American housing − that certain people don’t belong in certain neighborhoods.
The overwhelming focus of Venezuelan migrants in the US is on earning enough money to build a life back home.
On July 4, 1891, Oklahoman farmer Oscar Weber Bilby served his neighbors the very first hamburgers on buns.
Joan Whitney Payson, the first female owner to buy a baseball team, won over the press in the Mets’ disastrous 1962 season by treating them as partners, not adversaries.
‘Driving while Black’: Researchers found that Black drivers make up 70% of police traffic stops on roads where only half the drivers are Black.
American political conventions will continue to both offend and excite those of us who follow politics closely as we consider the past, present and future of these critical events.
When southeast Chicago’s steel industry collapsed, the loss reverberated through neighborhoods built around the mills. Former mill workers explain why they stayed as the local economy fell.
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