Brandon Scott has made history. The Baltimore City Council president won the election to become the city's 52nd mayor.
New Jersey voters have approved a constitutional ballot initiative to legalize marijuana for adults 21 and over.
LeBron James teamed up with former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg to help ensure that felons in Florida will be able to vote.
An unknown number of African Americans were murdered in a brutal massacre in Ocoee, Florida on Nov. 2, 1920 in what is now called the Ocoee Massacre.
99-year-old Dr. Robert H. Smith Sr., who was born the son of a sharecropper on a plantation, is making sure his voice is being heard.
The teenager who recorded the tragic death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police in May will be honored by PEN America.
First Lady of Gospel Music Shirley Caesar has released new music in response to the social justice movement in America.
27-year-old Walter Wallace Jr was shot and killed after Philadelphia police responded to a call of a man wielding a knife.
Lebron James will be partnering with CNN Films to produce his latest documentary on the 1921 Tulsa massacre.
Pope Francis has named 13 new cardinals, including Archbishop Wilton Gregory, who now is the first African American prelate elevated to cardinal.
