CNN host Ashleigh Banfield on Wednesday told off a black Baltimore councilman for mentioning the N-word when he admonished her colleague for using the word “thug” to describe people on the streets of ...

Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott is now president of the African American Mayors Association. Read more about the selection and the organization’s recent conference in Washington, D.C. on AFRO.com.

Cleveland changed forever 60 years ago this summer. The change agent arrived dressed as defeat, yet behind that losing look was an inevitability that politics here would never be the same. In 1965, ...