With Trump officials pushing to end diversity efforts, civil rights leaders and experts explain why Black organizations were created and still exist.

Desecrated 1800s Black Cemetery Found With Graves Still Intact The gravesite remains endangered, despite comprising of free and formerly enslaved Black people.

In the mid-1800s a man in Alabama named James Marion Sims gained national renown as a doctor after performing medical experiments on enslaved women, who by definition of their position in society ...

“Black People Will Swim” started as a tweet. Now it’s a mantra for the hundreds of New Yorkers who learn to swim every year.

Heat can drive people to wild decisions. On one blazing, stormy night, a family of Black women struggles with freedom, voodoo, and their fates in Plowshares Theatre Co.’s production of Marcus ...

Thousands of people tour the grounds of the picturesque Biltmore Estate each year -- never realizing they're walking in the footsteps of a lost community, where Black men and women freed from ...

Newspapers provide a way to learn from the past and have been a tremendous resource for researchers like Rachel Quist of Salt Lake City.

Several Black-owned newspapers existed during the late 1800s in Utah, two of which had a rivalry between political opinions.

With Trump officials pushing to end diversity efforts, civil rights leaders and experts explain why Black organizations were created and still exist.

WASHINGTON ‒ Enslaved Black people were banned from reading and writing and even those who had their freedom couldn't always access formal schooling, so African Americans began founding colleges of ...