With Black History Month underway, locals have several opportunities in the coming weeks to learn the often-unheard history of African Americans and their contributions to this country.

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators (and their students) are eager to learn more about underrepresented ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

Words are just part of telling a great story. In the 10 years that we have put out The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Black History Month series, we also paid close attention to how we told these ...

Leslie Knox has made history as one of the newest residents of Hamtramck, Michigan. The small city nearly encircled by ...

A decision has been reached after a third day of deliberations in an art theft case in Lackawanna County. Nicolas Dombek, ...

A North Carolina judge has ruled that racial bias tainted jury selection and sentencing in the trial of a Black inmate who was sentenced to death in 2009.

It's the divisive artwork that has "blown people's minds away" and left others fuming. In court this week, police revealed ...

The new documentary "Paint Me a Road Out of Here" details the history of a painting by Faith Ringgold, created for the Rikers ...

As the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution approaches, historians are looking deeper into the roots of the nation’s ...

The admittance prompted right-wing US think tank the Heritage Foundation to launch a legal battle against the Department of ...