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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…
Senate Democratic hopeful Charles Booker discusses his viral campaign ad invoking a noose and calls out Paul for "weaponizing hate."
African Americans have a complicated relationship with pork but eat it more than any other demographic—including this foolproof pork shoulder…
Alabama sidesteps compensation for Sarah Collins Rudolph, a survivor of the 1963 KKK Birmingham church bombing.
GOP leaders have created the Texas 1836 Project, which is in direct response to the New York Times' highly controversial…
Political organizers say Highlander never stopped pursuing social justice and should recover the building as a stolen part of its…
Sixty U.S. high schools began a new class that examines civil rights and the significant contributions and experiences of Black…