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When marijuana becomes a Schedule III instead of a Schedule I substance under federal rules, researchers will face fewer barriers to studying it. But there will…

As protests over the Israel Hamas war roil college campuses across the U.S., similar protests are happening elsewhere in the world. We hear from some of…

Source: Goodboy Picture Company / Getty   The fight to end hair discrimination continues. According to CNN, Democrats are pushing to have the CROWN Act enforced on…

NEW ORLEANS – FEBRUARY 09: Voters enter a polling place in the Lower 9th Ward to cast their ballots in the state’s presidential primary on February…

Here’s a question: Why are cops who have committed egregious acts of misconduct, including but not limited to beating Black people while they’re restrained and helpless,…

Source: KENT NISHIMURA / Getty Congressman James E. Clyburn and other notable Black leaders were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. …

Claflin University held its Spring Commencement Convocation with former South Carolina Representative Bakari Sellers to serve as keynote speaker on May 6, 2023, at Claflin University…

Source: FatCamera / Getty Heath advocates in North Carolina are sounding the alarm on the state’s proposed anti-DEI bill targeting federally-funded medical schools. Some believe if…

A gentrified urban industrial area is seen from an Amtrak train bridge on October 18, 2023, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | Source: Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Society…

It is “the first known case of active wound treatment in a wild animal with a medical plant,” biologist Isabelle Laumer told NPR. She says the…