The theme of this year’s Black History Month is “African Americans and Labor.” Beyond the proclamations made by elected officials, people need to remember Yolo County was founded in part by slaves ...

A Sangamon County deputy fatally shot Sonya Massey, 36, last year, after she called to report a prowler outside her home in ...

County officials in Springfield, Illinois, have agreed to pay $10 million to the family of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman shot and killed in her home last summer by a sheriff’s deputy ...