Aaron Morrison

Tulsa Race Massacre survivors from left, Hughes Van Ellis, Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher ride in a carriage at a remembrance walk during centennial commemorations of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Friday, May 28, 2021, in Tulsa, Okla. (John Locher, The Associated Press)

Hughes Van Ellis dies in Denver: Youngest known survivor of Tulsa Race Massacre was 102

October 10, 2023 at 4:00 p.m.

Hughes Van Ellis, who was the youngest known survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre and who spent his latter years pursuing justice for his family and other descendants of the...

President Joe Biden and Vice President ...

Jackson鈥檚 speech highlights U.S. race struggles, progress

April 8, 2022 at 4:47 p.m.

“In my family, it took just one generation to go from segregation to the Supreme Court of the United States.”

FILE – Supreme Court nominee Ketanji ...

Black women feel sting of “traumatizing” Ketanji Brown Jackson hearings

March 26, 2022 at 1:04 p.m.

鈥淢y spirit feels it was to bring this Black woman down because she鈥檚 about to break the glass ceiling that, once broken, opens the door to more.鈥�

NAACP President Derrick Johnson poses for ...

At 113, NAACP evolves for relevance on racial justice agenda

January 20, 2022 at 3:40 p.m.

As the NAACP turns 113, look for its voice to grow louder on issues like climate change, the student debt crisis and the coronavirus pandemic -- while keeping voting rights...

In this Dec. 11, 1969, file photo, demonstrators protest on the steps of the Los Angeles City Hall, against raids by police at Black Panther headquarters

Decades later, a new look at Black Panthers and their legacy

October 31, 2021 at 8:49 a.m.

It once would have been unthinkable for a city to erect a monument to Huey P. Newton.

FILE – U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell makes a statement to the media after a meeting at U.N. headquarters, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2003. Powell, former Joint Chiefs chairman and secretary of state, has died from COVID-19 complications. In an announcement on social media Monday, Oct. 18, 2021 the family said Powell had been fully vaccinated. He was 84. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, file)

Colin Powell had mixed legacy among some African Americans

October 19, 2021 at 7:40 a.m.

As an American leader, Colin Powell鈥檚 credentials were impeccable: He was chairman of the Joint Chiefs and secretary of state. But his legacy as the first Black person in those...

Six-year-old Mary-Louise Lacobon holds a squirrel she and her family helped after it was injured beside the home of Tommy Williams, right, in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2021, in Dulac, La. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Louisiana residents thankful for small miracles after Ida

September 5, 2021 at 3:45 p.m.

MARRERO, La. (AP) — Amid the devastation caused by Hurricane Ida, there was at least one bright light Sunday: Parishioners found that electricity had been restored to their church outside...

50-year war on drugs imprisoned millions of Black Americans

July 21, 2021 at 7:40 a.m.

Fifty years ago this summer, President Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs. Today, with the U.S. mired in a deadly opioid epidemic that did not abate during the coronavirus...

Tulsa Race Massacre centennial events proceed amid hiccups

May 30, 2021 at 10:21 a.m.

Joi McCondichie is a native of this city, but her life and career in public education kept her away from home for decades. When she returned to Tulsa from Los...

Deep-rooted racism, discrimination permeate U.S. military

May 27, 2021 at 7:42 a.m.

In interviews with The Associated Press, current and former enlistees and officers in nearly every branch of the armed services described a deep-rooted culture of racism and discrimination that stubbornly...

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