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On its first anniversary of complete independence from British rule, Barbados continues to celebrate what it now means to be…
Sites commemorating the Underground Railroad and Indigenous American history exist throughout North America. Have you visited one yet?
Bolden's career in law was inspired by her great-grandfather, whose 1930s' death was deemed accidental after his lynching.
Charles Robinson, interim chancellor since August 2021, was elected as the University of Arkansas' first Black chancellor.
"Mother" Lessie Benningfield Randle, one of the 1921 massacre's last three survivors, celebrated her 108th birthday on Thursday.
Joe Tate has made history by becoming the first Black representative to serve as House Speaker in Michigan.
Authorities in Jackson, Miss., arrested Devin McLaurin on arson charges following fires at area churches and HBCU Jackson State Tuesday.
The brother of two of the victims in the 1985 MOVE bombing has filed a lawsuit against the city of…
Researchers have uncovered 21 additional graves in their search for the remains of victims from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
The idea that Black people are better off in American than in Africa is racist and it depends on ignoring…
Daniel Smith, the son of a man born enslaved during the Civil War and the last survivor of five siblings,…
After World War I, the region around Lake Ivanhoe was built as a resort by wealthy Black Chicagoans wanting a…
The Lantern Project aims to digitize and make publicly available the legal records that document enslaved persons in Mississippi and…
Annette Gordon-Reed, who integrated Texas' Conroe ISD in 1964, visited and dedicated a school named in her honor in the…
Henry Louis Gates Jr. has launched a PBS series titled "Making Black America: Through the Grapevine" that celebrates Black joy…
The resolution was introduced on September 22 by United States Representatives Ritchie Torres and Yvette Clarke.
James Meredith will be honored at the Ole Miss-Kentucky game Saturday in an ironic echo of history 60 years to…
Senga Nengudi, the first Black woman to win the Nasher Prize, will receive a $100,000 gift from the Nasher Sculpture…
Stanley Crosby, a Louisiana educator who repeatedly risked his job to advocate for his students, will soon have a library…
The Alexander family is concerned that the expansion of U.S. 183, which spans 400 feet of their property, will demolish…