Herb Boyd

As we often declare, it isn’t necessary to plumb the depths of Black history to find someone who, for any number of reasons, needs profiling. When Arthur James Gregg died last month, we sat him aside as a potential subject, but honoring him became all the more important after Trump’s desecration at the Arlington National Cemetery. Gregg, the first African American to achieve the rank of lieutenant general in the U.S. Army, will now be included among our honored dead when he interred there September 19, 2024.

Each day has brought fresh uncertainty and drama to the presidential race between Vice President Harris and former President Trump.

Sybil Haydel Morial is well known in the annals of New Orleans where her husband was the city’s first Black mayor.

MSU’s 1965-’66 football teams were the first fully to be integrated and thereby instrumental in forging a new era

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As expected, Gov. Tim Walz took his GOP opponent Ohio Sen. JD Vance to task for his repeated claims about Haitian immigrants consuming pets.

In Conversation: Ta-Nehisi Coates with Ayman Mohyeldin on the occasion of Coates new book, The Message. Credit: Laylah Amatullah Barrayn photos courtesy of The Apollo

As the presidential race tightens in the final weeks leading up to Nov. 5, Trump’s grip on reality becomes increasingly looser.

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Kamala Harris was in Michigan, in a nearby suburb of Detroit, on the campaign trail with Liz Cheney, a former Representative from Wyoming.