The town of Pennsauken, which is racially diverse, has had an African American mayor and a woman mayor, but never an African American woman.

The National Parks Service is hosting an event to celebrate the recent inclusions of Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie in the ...

Jvonndra Brooks-Creech swears in as Hampton County's first African American Clerk of Court since its foundation in 1878.

A lot of thought is going into the renaming of a school in the Racine Unified School District to honor one of the only female astronauts in history. Monday night, a committee es ...

Marcus Freeman or James Franklin will become the first Black head coach to make an FBS national championship game. This is an historic moment.

The Braceville African American Heritage Museum in collaboration with the Braceville Community Foundation is holding a ...

As James Franklin prepares for the Orange Bowl, the Nittany Lions head coach reflected on how two Black head coaches can ...

Fifty Black sailors refused to go back to work after the deadly Port Chicago explosion, citing unaddressed safety concerns. Convicted of mutiny, they weren't exonerated until last year.

In their new book, Dr. Jenn Jackson shines a light on the central role of Black women in liberation movements, both in US ...

One of the first musicians to interpret the “Star Spangled Banner” in a way that displayed a Black consciousness was the ...

More than 60 years ago, three Black nurses took a stand against segregation at Hampton’s Dixie Hospital, igniting a legal battle to advance civil rights. On Saturday, Hampton honored the women — ...