Women
Bates, Arkansas State Press co-founder, was a mentor to the students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
Black History Month
The Bruce family acquired the deed to Bruce's Beach last year, 98 years after eminent domain was used to seize…
Black History Month
The calendars always mark "significant" days that mostly honor and recognize non-Black people, so here is a list of significant…
Lifestyle
A newly created reading room at the Paul Robeson House and Museum in West Philadelphia pays tribute to the late…
Black History Month
Washington, a cornerstone of The Big Easy musical nightlife for decades, has died of cancer days after his birthday.
Black History Month
A Winston-Salem organization has been trying to acquire the remaining shotgun houses in the historical Happy Hill community for seven…
Black History Month
Charlene Mitchell, renown freedom fighter and the first Black woman to run for the White House, has passed away at…
Black History Month
The proclamation didn’t bring immediate freedom to the approximately 4 million enslaved Black people. But it did lead to significant…
Education
Charles Harris, the first Black athletic director at the University of Pennsylvania from 1979-85, passed away earlier this month at…
Black History Month
A commission created by Congress recommended that multiple historical reminders tied to Confederate officers during the Civil War be removed…
Black History Month
The House has unanimously passed a bill posthumously awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett Till.
Black History Month
A statue of Henrietta Lacks is set to replace a monument of confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Roanoke, Virginia.