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Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump appealed to a core group of voters, African-Americans, during his speech where he blasted presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s immigration policies on Wednesday, suggesting her policies disenfranchise minority workers.

The senior advisor to former presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson told Breitbart News that the black vote is in play and that many black Americans are supporting presumptive GOP nominee Donald J. Trump.

President Barack Obama signed a bill into law Friday banning the federal government from using the terms “Negro” and “Oriental,” making the official terms African-American and Asian-American.

In his commencement speech to the graduating class at Howard University last weekend, President Obama excused crime in the African American community as something fostered by an “unfair and unjust” system. He also said successful people were “just lucky” and hinted they didn’t make their success; “It wasn’t nothing you did,” he insisted.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joked that she realized she was pandering to African-Americans during an interview with the New York radio show The Breakfast Club. When asked what item she always carried with her, she replied, “Hot sauce.” “You

A narrow plurality of African Americans said they believe new groups like Black Lives Matter (BLM) represent them more than older groups, such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), says a new study from Brilliant Corners, a Washington, D.C.-based research firm.

Legal German immigrant Sabine Durden lost her only son Dominic in 2012 when an unlicensed, illegal alien driver hit and killed him. Now, Durden says Donald Trump is the 2016 presidential candidate who has brought attention to her son’s death and renewed her hope.

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump says “I will do more for the African American people in one year than Barack Obama has done in his seven years – soon to be eight years – and then by the way, he’s out and thank goodness, ok?” Trump told his supporters at his first of three campaign rallies on Friday.

On Monday on CNN, network political commentator and former green jobs czar to President Barack Obama Van Jones argued Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is trying to drive a wedge between Latinos and African-Americans and fracture the coalition between them Obama built, which he

Even after winning big in New Hampshire, Sen. Bernie Sanders needs to prove that he can win Democrats in the south, particularly the African-American voters who supported President Obama.

The 43rd anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision showcases what is arguably the greatest failure of black leadership over the past four decades: its unquestioning support for an institution responsible for decimating the black community, namely, abortion on

On Sunday, with Martin Luther King Day right around the corner, George Stephanopoulos of ABC News asked Donald Trump what he would say to Americans, especially African-Americans, who believe Dr. King’s dream has not been achieved.

GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson spoke about diversity at the Carolina African American Heritage Foundation’s Corporate Community Awards Breakfast in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina honoring Martin Luther King, Jr on Monday morning.

President Obama hosted a series of interviews with YouTube personalities, including an interview with Adande Thorne, known as “sWooZie” on the internet.

Whoopi Goldberg declared to “The View” audience on Tuesday that she is proud to call herself an American and doesn’t need or want to use the phrase African-American.

Drake’s dad reveals the one gift his son always wanted as a little boy – a dreidel.  Instead of video games or remote-controlled cars, little Drake asked his parents to get him the spinning top that Jewish children all over

The nation is suffering another spike in racial conflict as the nation heads into another national election with President Barack Obama in the White House, according to a new CNN poll.

Insisting that no “hate crime” is suspected, police in St. Louis arrested an African-American man for a series of arson attacks on African-American churches perpetrated earlier this month.

Roughly 1 in 9 black children you pass on the street has or has had a parent in prison, according to a recent study by Maryland-based research firm Child Trends.

A report by the Chicago Sun-Times reveals that the Chicago Police Department started a special program to monitor local African-American groups after the death of Michael Brown and the ensuing riots in Ferguson, Missouri, last year.

We are all witnessing an elaborate liberal media lynching of Dr. Ben Carson. The former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon turned leading black Republican presidential candidate is just the latest “uppity negro” (Justice Clarence Thomas, Herman Cain) to defy the expectations of his white liberal mainstream media masters by deciding to ditch the political hymnal from which most blacks read and think for himself.

San Francisco is enjoying the benefits of a new tech boom, but black residents are left behind–or leaving.
That’s the story told by new data on incomes, which show that white, Asian and Latino residents saw increases in 2014, but blacks saw their incomes fall by nearly 5 percent,

One of the oddest spectacles of recent years has been the political class’s utter befuddlement as to the decline in crime over recent decades.

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System reveals some stark disparities of obesity rates among different ethnic groups in the U.S.

“While unemployment rate for African-Americans has dropped by more than 7 percent since the height of the recession, it is still double the unemployment rate as the rest of the country,” Joe Biden says. “And over the last 30 years, African-Americans have faced even greater wage stagnation then the rest of the country.” Biden, who is contemplating a run for president in 2016 claims he and President Obama worked to save the economy from a giant recession, but that there was still a lot more to do.

Obama asserted that he cared deeply about Israel which is why he felt the need to be honest about his views about their security. But he admitted that he was more upset about people who criticized Jewish members of his administration for supporting the deal with Iran.

“What we need to be emphasizing … especially in the black community … we need to teach people to turn their dollars over on their own community,” Carson suggested. “Churches are places of great potential healing and insight in our society … there is such a thing as God’s word,” he said explaining he believes the church can teach America what is right and what is wrong.

“I hear people say we’ve got racial problems. We don’t have a skin problem in this country, we have a sin problem in this country,” said Huckabee, who appealed to the mostly African American audience. As a GOP presidential candidate, Huckabee is working to broaden his appeal to black voters.

For several years, the number of new African-American recruits joining the Philadelphia Police Department has been declining, and now some blacks in Philly, who have recently tried and failed to join the department, are starting to wonder if the city is purposefully denying blacks entry to the department.

For those without faith, Michael Wear acknowledges, this may make little sense, especially for those who have never personally experienced the forgiveness of God. “But that does not grant us the right to whitewash the motivation for the forgiveness we witnessed in Charleston,” he said. We need to “take the family members seriously when they say it is a sincere, thought-out expression of their faith,” he wrote.

An African American pastor from Chicago’s murder-ridden South Side is slamming Democrats, saying that the party has failed the black community.

“Resident Noise Levels” reads a mysterious flyer, pointing to “African-American” residents and posted at an Irvine apartment complex instigated resident concern and a resulting police investigation into hate crime allegations.

After an unknown assailant shot two police officers in Ferguson, Missouri, early on Thursday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder rushed to dismiss the shooter as merely a “damn punk.”

HOLLYWOOD, California—A planned protest over the lack of diversity in the film industry by Al Sharpton’s National Action Network (NAN) has been canceled. The group will instead seek direct dialogue with Hollywood’s central authority, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

San Francisco Board of Supervisors President London Breed has urged members of the black community to turn their children in to authorities if they know that they are involved with gun-related violence.