Race and ethnicity

SC results reveal challenge for Sanders among black voters

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Bernie Sanders’ presidential ambitions were undone in 2016 when he couldn’t line up enough support...
22:02 1 March 2022

Democrats gather for ‘Bloody Sunday’ commemoration in Selma

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidates gathered Sunday in this crucible of the civil rights movement to a...
16:16 1 March 2022

Celine gets refined as Balmain celebrates diversity in Paris

PARIS (AP) — Usher unleashed a photographer’s battle at Balmain on Friday, as he appeared at Paris Fashion Week alongsid...
21:30 28 February 2022

House approves bill to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes

WASHINGTON (AP) — Moving to stem a vaping epidemic among young people, the House has approved a bill to ban the sale of ...
17:52 28 February 2022

Key questions heading into South Carolina Democratic primary

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina primary is certain to be a fork in the road for Democrats’ 2020 presidential...
10:01 28 February 2022

The Latest: Warren says she got results post-financial crash

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Latest on the 2020 Democratic presidential primary contest (all times local):10 p.m.Elizabet...
3:04 28 February 2022

Buttigieg back in political fray after respite for bad cold

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A bit hoarse and with an occasional cough, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg retu...
21:52 27 February 2022

Nazi cautionary dramas wade into political, factual disputes

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood mustered its creative forces in the 1940s when Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany sought to conque...
18:57 27 February 2022

Sanders pitches black voters on ideas and history, not faith

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — When black voters in South Carolina consider Bernie Sanders, they don’t tend to think of h...
18:04 27 February 2022

Steyer courts voters that Biden needs for decisive SC win

GEORGETOWN, S.C. (AP) — Joe Biden’s political future depends on convincing South Carolina’s black voters to rally behind...
17:29 27 February 2022

AP-NORC poll: Election security, integrity worry Americans

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans have widespread concerns about the security and integrity of elections, with few saying they...
13:00 27 February 2022

Texas looms large as Super Tuesday bonanza for Democrats

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Bernie Sanders packed a rodeo arena in Dallas. Mike Bloomberg has spent more than $13.5 million on ...
5:14 27 February 2022

Report: Domestic extremists killed at least 42 in 2019

White supremacists and other far-right extremists killed at least 38 people in the U.S. in 2019, the sixth deadliest yea...
22:26 26 February 2022

House makes lynching a federal crime, 65 years after Till

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sixty-five years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi, Congress has approved legis...
20:15 26 February 2022

Campaign to open Trump community centers to woo black voters

WASHINGTON (AP) — Flush with cash, President Donald Trump’s campaign is stepping up its outreach to black Americans as i...
20:00 26 February 2022

Amy Klobuchar needs black voters, but some feel ‘peripheral’

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — It took several weeks and about two dozen emails before Amy Klobuchar agreed to sit down with the pre...
16:59 26 February 2022

Biden claims momentum as Sanders marches past debate fray

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Eyeing a South Carolina victory to rescue his presidential ambitions, Joe Biden claimed one of t...
16:21 26 February 2022

Review: An unlikely friendship is at the heart of ‘Burden’

It was only a matter of time before Hollywood came calling to adapt the real-life events surrounding a museum in South C...
1:01 26 February 2022

Review: ‘Driving While Black’ opens road to civil rights

This cover image released by Liveright/W.W. Norton shows "Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to C...
16:45 25 February 2022

Bloomberg’s influence stretches far and wide

When Mike Bloomberg held a rally this month at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, the signs of his wealth...
15:40 25 February 2022

In SC, Buttigieg faces black voters wary of a gay candidate

CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina state Sen. Gerald Malloy is fine with a gay presidential candidate like Pete Buttigie...
5:24 25 February 2022

Across races, religions, coalitions organize for solidarity

(RNS) — Rachel Prestipino knows how segregated Miami can be every day, including Sunday: “It’s not just at 11 a.m.” But ...
20:27 24 February 2022

The Latest: Bloomberg delays town hall to prepare for debate

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on presidential campaign developments (all times local):10:15 p.m.Mike Bloomberg’s campaign...
3:14 24 February 2022

Nev. union support for Sanders shows limits of labor warning

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Members of Nevada’s most politically powerful labor group were warned by union leaders that Bernie Sand...
0:13 24 February 2022

10,000 mourn victims of racist shooting rampage in Germany

BERLIN (AP) — Around 10,000 protesters marched through the central German town of Hanau on Sunday to mourn the nine peop...
19:00 23 February 2022

Sanders on top: Key takeaways from the Nevada caucuses

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Sen. Bernie Sanders cruised to victory in the Nevada caucuses, heartening his supporters and stoking al...
6:33 23 February 2022

Picketing, pigeons, politics: Scenes from the Nevada caucus

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Candidates have hustled past smoky bars and slot machines to ask for votes in the back of the house of ...
22:30 21 February 2022

Bright lights, big stakes for Democrats in Nevada

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Just past the roulette wheel and slot machines, the smoky bars and blinking lights, Nevada Democrats ar...
21:58 21 February 2022

Democrats try to blunt strong California showing for Sanders

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is the largest prize in the calculations of any Democratic presidential candidate, ...
5:20 21 February 2022

Tech boom, suburban growth drive Nevada’s Democratic shift

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Twenty years ago, long before Nevada was part of the early presidential selection process, the phone t...
5:15 21 February 2022