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West Charlotte High School was seen as a national model for how schools could integrate in the 1970s, years after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling. But in the 1990s, a federal judge ruled that bussing was no longer needed.

In her final weeks in office, Brown commuted the sentences of all 17 people on death row in the state. Capital punishment is legal in Oregon, though its last execution was in 1997.

If confirmed, she would be the first Black woman to serve on the nation's highest court, and she would be one of four women on the court, the largest number ever to serve at one time.

Read the opening remarks Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson prepared to read on Monday, the first day of her Supreme Court nomination hearing.

Fat Bear Week is back and bigger than ever.

Democrats and Republicans alike know that Jackson is on President Biden's Supreme Court shortlist should there be a vacancy.

Attorney General Mark Herring says when he was in college, "some friends suggested we attend a party dressed like rappers we listened to at the time."

In Debra Lee's new memoir, she looks back at her life as well as her time at Black Entertainment Television.

The new young adult novel centers around Echo, a Black woman from Cleveland who becomes the first in her family to attend college.

Residents of Ferguson, Mo., reflect on how the city has changed since a white police officer killed a black teenager in 2014. The death of Michael Brown sparked huge demonstrations.