A century ago this year, on Aug. 25, 1925, 500 Pullman Company railroad porters secretly gathered in New York City's Harlem for a meeting that would become a key event ...

February is around the corner – an annual nationally-recognized reminder to explore and celebrate Black history. This month ...

A campaign to liberate slaves would be a natural extension of the previous decade’s anti-apartheid movement, when major human-rights organizations and black leaders passionately took on the issue of r ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Rumaan Alam's “Entitlement,” Ian Frazier's “Paradise Bronx” and Lisa Ko's “Memory Piece” are among 14 finalists for the Gotham Book Prize, a $50,000 award for outstanding fiction or ...

From trailblazers to inventors, Olympians, and politicians, numerous Black historical figures have left their marks on ...

Gibbs herself played the Jeffersons' maid, Florence Johnston. At the time a TV novice and mother of three, Gibbs had been working as a reservation agent for United Airlines and figured she'd have a ...