Carter G. Woodson, who started the precursor to Black History Month, wrote of Cincinnati’s Black history before the Civil War ...

The coalition of groups, which includes the NAACP, National Urban League, Legal Defense Fund and National Black Justice ... Jr. and other civil rights figures. March 1965: American civil rights ...

Over 100 years after his death, Anderson Ruffin Abbott's visit to the White House and his relationship with U.S. President ...

Only one copy of a single issue still exists. In fact, one of the only things known about the Messenger is that in 1921, the white-dominated Charlottesville Daily Progress reprinted a Messenger ...

H.B.C.U. bands have been part of the festivities since the first halftime show. This year, Southern University’s “Human ...

A team of alumni, administrators and designers ensured that segregated Old Anderson, the pride of the East Side, would be ...

He is believed to be the first Black musician to perform at the White House, for President James Buchanan in 1860. After the Civil ... War II. Five years earlier, in 1939, the Daughters of the ...

There were 64 passengers aboard the plane, and three Army soldiers in the helicopter, according to officials. Here's a look ...

Black activists championed the idea of birthright citizenship long before it was introduced to the U.S. Constitution, reports ...

A historic Black ... out of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s is among the communities wiped away by devastating wildfires charring through Los Angeles County. The big picture: The Eaton ...

The 1960s civil ... the World War II propaganda effort. The message was: “We’re all in this together.” “The Office of War Information in the 1940s, along with the NAACP, mandated that there be more ...

To survive Trump's return, Dr. Gail Christopher heeds, "we must practice disciplines that calm our nervous system" ...