I keep thinking about this thing that happened a few weeks ago. I was on the Metro and some kids were being loud. Nothing abnormal for a bunch of 15-year-olds, but as we pulled into a stop, transit ...

OAKLAND — There it was again, at the top of Kenzie Smith’s endless Facebook feed: the image of a frowning woman in a navy-blue jacket and sunglasses holding a phone firmly to her ear. This was no ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Oakland community activist Kenzie Smith, the brother of rapper Mistah F.A.B., has died. Mistah F.A.B., born Stanley Cox, first announced his brother's death, saying Smith's ...

OAKLAND — Kenzie Smith, a Black community leader in Oakland whose 2018 run-in with a white woman shed light on the country’s racial tensions, died over the weekend. He was 43. A well-known local ...

Prof. Edward Baptist, history, and Prof. Vanessa Holden, history, the University of Kentucky, recently wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post detailing the historical roots of how Americans, often ...