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For much of white America, the idea that Trayvon Martin was innocent is a threat, because it means they aren't, says Leonard Pitts.

Leonard Pitts Jr.: "I had forgotten that I am black."

Leonard Pitts Jr. says he is worn down by the latest betrayal of black people in America: the mistrial of Walter Scott's killer.

Liberals are the ones who propagate racism.

"Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement"  is television that matters in its own right.

George Zimmerman's sale of the gun that killed Trayvon Martin debases African-American lives, Leonard Pitts writes.

This week: George Zimmerman auctions gun he used in shooting death of Trayvon Martin, users reimagine young adult books and #BlackDerbyHorseNames.

This week: Beyonce's album generates controversy, Baltimore youth shot by police and Lil Kim reveals lighter skin tone

Democratic presidential front runner Hillary Clinton will begin airing her first television advertisement in Maryland on Wednesday.

I find the lackluster attempts by the current administration to reach out to law enforcement killed in the line of duty at great variance with Obama's very public and impassioned responses to the police shooting of people of questionable character.

A group is seeking to have the Rev. Jamal H. Bryant, a Northwest Baltimore pastor and activist, uninvited as keynote speaker of a Martin Luther King Day breakfast in Florida after learning he has preached that homosexuality is "a sin."

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake on Thursday declined to say whether she hoped to see the trials of the officers charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray moved outside the city, adding "I have no dog in that fight."

Avoiding the issue?

Lessons in ethics, bias and respecting the people you cover

Who can heal Baltimore? Baltimoreans.

How long will conservatives claim that the killings of black men by police are isolated incidents?

Baltimore police shot and tased a man Sunday afternoon on the city's west side after police attempted to stop the vehicle the suspect was traveling in.

Nearly 50 years ago, hundreds of people crossed a bridge in Alabama — and braved beatings at the hands of police — to assert their freedoms as Americans.

The Rev. Jamal Bryant saw in Ferguson protests a modern incarnation of Martin Luther King's legacy.

If black lives matter, why are so many black men killing each other?

Blacks and whites need to wake up to racial injustice, says Leonard Pitts.

We are citizens of a country where the fear of black men is downright viral.

With the parents of Michael Brown in his congregation, the pastor of a North Baltimore AME church announced an initiative Sunday aimed at educating people on what they should and should not do when stopped by police

With the shooting of an unarmed teenager in Missouri weighing on their minds, politicians, church leaders and members of the public gathered at a Northwest Baltimore Church Tuesday night to consider the relationship between black people and the police.

I am African-American. Each time a cab zooms past to pick up a white passenger instead of me, each time I walk into a company dressed for a meeting and reception directs me to the messenger entrance I am reminded. We have a problem. It's a problem that is not just about race, but also about social and economic class. It is about automatic assumptions made on first sight, with little or no rational thought.

Hundreds of demonstrators streamed into the Inner Harbor Thursday evening to protest police misconduct and brutality and stand in solidarity with residents of Ferguson, Mo., where the fatal police shooting of an 18-year-old has sparked days of civil unrest.

The riots in Ferguson, Mo.,are not just about the black teen killed by police, but about overall attitudes toward black men, writes Leonard Pitts.

Saturday's fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen by police outside St. Louis fits an all too familiar pattern

Benjamin Jealous' legacy at the NAACP is hardly laudable, nor is his successor a universally admired pick.

Philanthropic groups, including the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation, will collectively spend $200 million on programs intended to help young black and Hispanic men as part of an initiative President Barack Obama will announce at the White House on Thursday.

I feel like my husband and I are in the midst of this never-ending war, the same war that my parents and my grandparents fought. It is the same war that black people have been fighting in this country since American slavery was first legalized. This war is simply to keep our boys safe in a society that devalues them, suspects them, fears them and often dismisses them. It is a war that I now fear I am losing.

The woman who was riding in a vehicle with Tyrone West moments before he died in police custody said he fought with officers but continued to be hit after he gave up, according to a recording of her interview with police.

The resignation of NAACP president Benjamin Jealous left the nation's most influential advocacy group for equality in search of a new leader at a particularly sensitive time for U.S. race relations, setting off a debate Monday about his potential successor.

Retiring NAACP President Benjamin Jealous transformed the group by refocusing it on contemporary concerns

McDonough to propose 'stand your ground' law

Sherrilyn Ifill writes that 50 years after the seminal event of the civil rights era, the work is still unfinished