It’s quite a story, of course. LaNier, along with Elizabeth Eckford, Minnijean Brown, Terrence Roberts, Melba Pattillo, Ernest Green, Gloria Ray, Jefferson Thomas and Thelma Mothershed, are members of ...

The civil rights activist is set to attend a private event honoring the work of the African American Youth Harvest Foundation ...

Cardinal Gregory reflects on Rev. King’s legacy today Last year, Cardinal Wilton Gregory became the first African American to ...

President Donald Trump wants America to remember the past with new coins commemorating the 250th anniversary of the United ...

It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery ...

The story of Black–Ashkenazi Jewish relations is not a simple tale of alliance or betrayal—it is a window into how race, ...

The Urban Civil Rights Museum, Harlem, New York City’s first museum dedicated to the American Civil Rights Movement, is set ...

Edith Renfrow Smith grew up in the 1910s hearing her grandparents’ stories of surviving slavery, including a grandfather who ...

Black Americans. What began in 1926 has grown into an overall cultural observance of Black History in February ...

Rep. Jim Clyburn’s book, The First Eight, tells of the first eight SC African-American congressmen and how they were forced ...

Josephine “Jo” Brown, the first African American woman elected to the Wichita school board and a longtime civil rights and ...

A longtime African American–owned bookstore in Atlanta is preparing to close its doors after more than three decades serving ...