Jack Johnson's historic boxing win on July 4,1910, upset much of America. But the next Black world heavyweight champ remains ...

Unlike the 1992 riots, protests have mainly been peaceful and been confined to a roughly five-block stretch of downtown LA, a tiny patch in the sprawling city of nearly 4 million people. No one has ...

Rochester's riots came a week after Harlem — the heart of the African-American community in New York City — erupted in violence. The Rochester riots garnered front-page headlines across the ...

In Manhattan, during the Draft Riots of July 1863, thousands of poor and desperate immigrants — many of them Irish — went on a three-day rampage.

On December 8, 1941, the day after Pearl Harbor, thousands of Americans rushed to enlist in the military, driven by a sense of duty and patriotism. For African Americans, however, the path to ...

Once generally referred to as a “riot,” the events of 1898 in Wilmington, North Carolina are now more widely understood to have been a massacre of its African American citizens, and the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - The Springfield and Central Illinois African American History Museum (AAHM) is currently being renovated, but once it re-opens the museum will launch it's new 1908 Race ...

Wilder said 5th St. was a big spot for African American businesses. "When I was growing up, 5th St. was a big corridor for African American businesses, especially the 5th and Federal area.

In the winter of 1845-1846, a clash between abolitionists and pro-slavery antagonists prompted a mob attack on Lafayette’s Black community. Nearly 200 African Americans lived in homes scattered ...

In part, the historical marker will read: “The ‘Red Summer’ of 1919 was a wave of racist attacks on African American communities across the U.S.

The State Board of Education conducts its July 19 meeting before a crowd in Orlando, where Florida's new African American history standards were approved. [ The Florida Channel ] ...