Frances Thompson’s testimony in 1866 came at a critical time, as the nation weighed whether to expand equal constitutional ...

Lisa Blunt Rochester takes the former Wilmington Council President's advice and lessons with her everywhere. It's her ...

President Donald Trump's defense secretary can't simply snap his fingers and change Texas' Fort Cavazos back to Fort Hood. A ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - Alabama achieved a historic first in Congress in 2025. For the first time in the state’s 205 years, two Black Alabamians are serving in the House of Representatives. On ...

Amelia Boynton Robinson, born in Savannah, Ga. is a civil rights icon who impacted the lives of people across the nation.

Agreement with Trump’s policy aims need not mean agreement with his power grab. But the most powerful branch of government — the branch with the power to check the others — is supine. It is not that ...

Between when she walked the halls of South High School and the halls of the Kentucky Supreme Court, Judge Pamela R. Goodwine ...

She was attacked by mounted police officers on "Bloody Sunday" in Selma. Her efforts, along with "Bloody Sunday," were ...

Mary Jackson began her engineering career in an era in which female engineers of any background were a rarity.

Terrell was one of the first Black women in the nation to earn a college degree. As an educator, and as one of the first Black women to serve on a major city’s school board, Terrell’s activism ...

The Philadelphia Eagles' win in Super Bowl LIX will go down in NFL history for multiple reasons — it prevented the first-ever NFL ... "On the occasion of Black History Month, it is crucial ...