Sometimes, we all need someone to lean on. A group of employees from a Washington coffee shop provided just that in a touching photo that’s gone viral. KPTV reports that Pierce Dunn and Evan Freeman from the Dutch Bros. coffee shop in Vancouver, WA were photographed praying with a grieving customer who lost her husband the evening before. […]

Lighting and harsh makeup have been named the culprits in an unusual story of a family not recognizing their own late grandmother in a funeral home.

Police in Redmond, Washington are looking for a man who brought fear and panic to the owner of a Black thrift store last week after he dropped off a bag of clothes containing a Ku Klux Klan robe.

Two students from a charter school in Washington, D.C have been expelled for framing a Muslim student for a bomb threat they sent through his email account.

While dancing may not be answer in all cases, we wish more officers would make efforts to defuse situations instead of drawing their weapons or escalating tensions.

The discovery of racially coded notes taken by prosecutors during jury selection is forcing the Supreme Court to take a second look at this murder trial, The Washington Post reports.

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The Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision on May 17, 1954 by the U.S. Supreme Court set into motion the desegregation of public…

Mayor Patrick Rushing of Airway Heights in Washington has said that he is not a racist after referring to President Obama as a “monkey man” and Michelle Obama as “gorilla face.” The local city council has asked him to resign, but Rushing refuses. The council can’t force him to resign because he was elected. He […]

Well, that didn’t take long. Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who pretended to be black, has stepped down from the position of President with the Spokane, Washington NAACP. Dolezal issued a statement on the chapter’s Facebook page. During The Today Show, Dolezal’s parents said they were “puzzled” by her actions. Dolezal’s statement from the Spokane NAACP […]

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DC reporter Charnice Milton killed in shooting http://t.co/vzrDPPq3Rn #RIP pic.twitter.com/fcSXqWdbSB — FOX 5 DC (@fox5newsdc) May 28, 2015 A vibrant, black woman journalist with a mild form…

  Former Harlem Globetrotter and University of D.C. alumni Charles ‘Choo’ Smith Jr. talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about his time spent at…

VIA WOL-AM 1450 Marion Barry, Washington’s iconic mayor died at age 78. A spokeswoman for Barry confirmed that he died shortly after midnight Sunday at…