Smitherman was the first African American female judge in Jefferson County and Birmingham’s first Black female mayor.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Judge Naomi Doyle has some specific thoughts on the topic of village mentality.

Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs honored several African American leaders from Central Illinois to celebrate Black ...

The decision to fire Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a four-star fighter pilot, upends a tradition in which the Joint Chiefs ...

Trump removed the military's top officer without explanation as the defense secretary purged the Pentagon's top ranks of five ...

The dismissal of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff came as part of a broader shakeup throughout the military’s senior ...

President Trump announced that he had fired Gen. CQ Brown, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and planned to replace ...

President Trump has fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr., a four-star pilot, and named Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine to ...

Judge Adam B. Abelson wrote that orders by President Trump targeting diversity, equity and inclusion programs violated ...

U.S. President Donald Trump reacts in the Oval Office of the White House, on the day Howard Lutnick is sworn in as U.S.

Students at a local elementary school celebrated Black History Month through dance on Friday. The Epiphany Dance Collective out of Indianapolis performed at Benjamin Franklin Elementary School. They ...

Robert Jones on the Rev. Claude Shelby ... Asia Fuller and Dionne Webster on Barbara Gillespie ... Tracy Parsons on Clarence ...