Almost 56 years to the Feb. 21, 1965, assassination of Malcolm X, the slain leader’s daughters and a noted civil rights attorney are shining a light on those they believe are responsible for his murder. Qubiliah Shabazz, Ilyasah Shabazz and Gamilah Shabazz have joined...

Dr. James Hildreth, Meharry Medical College president and CEO, has been named by President Joe Biden as a member of his COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force. Hildreth, the renowned immunologist and academic administrator and Meharry’s 12th president, sat on the U.S. Food...

An ongoing lawsuit against the Prince George’s County Police Department notes more racial and retaliatory conduct against Black and Latino officers and citizens, based on new unredacted information released Monday. The information filed in U.S. District Court in...

A mass vaccination site at Six Flags America in Upper Marlboro sought to help ensure more Prince George’s County residents would receive a shot in the arm. But Maryland’s acting Health Secretary Dennis Schrader informed a state Senate work group during its weekly...

The social and economic stresses of dealing with the coronavirus have triggered pandemic paranoia among many Americans, health experts say. Dr. Brandy X. Lee, a forensic psychiatrist in New York City and president of the World Mental Health Coalition, told CNN that a...

Maryland’s health department has deployed a sound truck in Prince George’s County and Baltimore City neighborhoods to counter popular misconceptions regarding the coronavirus and the vaccines. Residents will hear recorded bilingual messages about coronavirus testing,...

One day after new information became public about alleged racial and retaliatory practices at the Prince George’s County Police Department, family members affected by police brutality and community activists demand officials implement stronger accountability measures....

Golf superstar Tiger Woods is reportedly in critical condition in a Los Angeles-area hospital after a single-car accident on Tuesday. The website TMZ displayed pictures from the scene showing that authorities had to use the Jaws of Life to free Woods from his mangled...

While the oratorical skills and written works of Frederick Douglass have long been discussed and studied, at one time he was only known as a lay preacher in local Black churches. His acculturation began in early childhood in the Tuckahoe region of Maryland’s Eastern...

Mercia Bowser, the older and only sister of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, died Wednesday morning of coronavirus-related complications, the mayor announced in a statement. She was 64. Bowser died after battling COVID-19-related pneumonia at Washington Hospital Center, the...

First in a Series D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser recently announced a new position in the District, Gun Violence Prevention Coordinator, after homicide rates and gun violence reached rates not seen in years. Linda Harllee Harper, the former senior deputy director for the...

BGE has noticed an uptick in coronavirus-related phone scams in recent weeks as fraudsters attempt to exploit the pandemic by tricking struggling customers into making illegitimate payments. The utility company warns customers that if they get a phone call threatening...

The life expectancy for African Americans declined the most from 2019 – by 2.7 years, to 72 years – its lowest level since 2001, according to new research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics. The study, which...

Renowned televangelist Rev. Frederick K.C. Price, head pastor of the 28,000-member Crenshaw Christian Center in Los Angeles, has died, his family said. He was 89. The church, of which Price served as head pastor after its founding in 1973, shared the family’s...

With the echo of church bells sounding in the distance, Americans paused this week to acknowledge a grim milestone: reaching and quickly surpassing 500,000 COVID-19 deaths. Still, officials in the greater Washington area continue to voice optimism over the recent...

Americans’ stress levels amid the coronavirus pandemic are even worse now than at the pandemic early stages, according to a recent poll by the American Psychological Association. The “Stress in America” survey found that the average reported stress level last month...

Over the past year, COVID-19 and its variants have plagued the globe taking lives and interrupting normal activities in virtually all areas of life. For Black America, already plagued with steep health, income and wealth disparities, coping with the pandemic has been...

D.C. Fire and EMS is reportedly investigating counterfeit N95 masks possibly circulating at fire stations throughout the city. WTTG-TV (Channel 5), which first revealed the possible forgery, said the source of the masks or how long they had been in use aren’t unknown,...

To the relief of some parents and teachers, the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) opted to cancel a highly anticipated and polarizing assessment test that students were scheduled to take in the coming weeks. In a letter to public school and public...

With two coronavirus vaccines currently in circulation and the approval of a third imminent, the U.S. is on pace to have enough doses to fully vaccinate the nation’s population by the end of July. Since vaccinations began in December, about 73.4 million doses have...