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 ...

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 ...

The River Road African American Museum in the historic district of Donaldsonville celebrates three decades of preserving ...

Three graduate fellows at the University at Buffalo’s Center for K-12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education have ...

Last week, two-time NBA champion, Basketball Hall of Famer, and New York Knicks legend Walt “Clyde” Frazier visited the Children’s Aid.

The great Russian literary genius Alexander Pushkin dies on this day as a result of a duel. He is generally considered Russia’s great­est poet. Unlike many famous Euro­peans of color, Pushkin was ...

The story of Hazel Scott, who started as a child prodigy and became one of the most successful Black women in entertainment ...

MSNBC host Al Sharpton declared a 'buy-in" at a New York Costco as he announced support for the retailer's DEI policies.

Inside the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit,  you’ll find an exhibition called Paul Collins: ...

Patterson received the 24th Annual MLK Jr. Social Justice award, which highlights an individual with “influential scholarship ...