A lot of people talk about helping people. She just did it — over and over again — no matter the circumstances.' ...

Photo gallery shows how concertgoers in Atlanta reimagined traditional American symbols to make them their own.

The Supreme Court just legalized a caste system. And Black folk know the sound of its tongue.

Cornish was Black. He likely didn’t know that the hospital had been founded two years before as Provident Hospital and Training School for Nurses, the nation’s first integrated hospital, a haven where ...

If you’re wondering what happens when history is bowdlerized or suppressed, lies are enshrined, free enquiry stifled, empathy ...

President Abraham Lincoln, with young son Tad and Senator Charles Sumner, salutes a detachment of African-American Union ...

Haiti’s landmark Oloffson Hotel in Port-au-Prince, a favorite haunt of writers and artists, was burned to the ground its proprietor Richard Morse said. The attack by gangs took place Saturday, July 6, ...

A century ago today, America fixed its attention on a Dayton courthouse. Tennessee was prosecuting John T. Scopes for ...

Racial Injustice in the United States” PHOTO COURTESY OF BLOOMSBURY.COM In 1982, Ronald Reagan declared a war on drugs. Just three years later, ...

Phylicia Rashad has joined the cast as an aristocratic matriarch. In an interview, she, Audra McDonald and Denée Benton ...

When Lexie Webster integrated an Indianapolis neighborhood in 1963, fences went up. She spent her 96 years breaking down ...