A special event in Jackson is shining a light on Mississippi’s painful history of racial violence while promoting healing and community resilience.

Wimauma's Black history unearthed and high­lighted on June­teenth BY Saundra Weathers Hillsborough County UPDATED 7:26 PM ET Jun. 19, 2025 ...

Two separate leaders of boycotts against Target and its rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, want the ...

Discover some of the architecture and history of Cleveland's Black churches, many of which congregations are trying to ...

ESSENCE celebrates the changemakers shaping a bold, Black future today during Black History Month. With our second annual “Black Futures Now” list, we’re honoring a select group of leaders ...

Artist Megan Piphus — the first female Black puppeteer on the iconic PBS kids' show — used puppets to break out of being a ...

In response to Donald Trump's order banning DEI initiatives, the DIA has paused special event programs and related events, including for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

The oldest Black Protestant denomination in the U.S. held an investiture ceremony for its new bishops' council president in ...

The rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches, whose congregants first gathered outdoors in secret before ...

Black and white Christians in America could have been allies in the fight for life across racial and partisan lines. Post-Dobbs, can we learn from recent history?

Lela Johnson, 97, was a member of one of the oldest Black churches in North Carolina. She recalls lugging water from the ...

Shiloh was city’s first Black Baptist congregation. Its existence has been intertwined with Black life in Cleveland.