I did a research project about Black Americans who had served in the Peace Corps in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. Many of them sought refuge from white racism in the United ...

When Bubba O’Keefe announced he was running for mayor of Clarksdale this spring, there was a mixed response. This dirt-poor, ...

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and the County Board pledged funds for immigrants facing ICE raids, but what about the city’s Black residents enduring generational poverty? It’s time for real action to tackle ...

Roger Taney was born in 1777 to a wealthy Maryland family that owned slaves. Early in his career, he called slavery a “blot ...

The ENRICH African American Heritage Tour is a self-guided and mobile audio tour “celebrating the rich African American heritage embedded in the county’s cultural and physical landscapes.” ...

Black Americans have been playing baseball for a lot longer than many people realize argues there’s at least one demographic ...

Self-guided tour highlights places of significance to the history and culture of African Americans within Richland County ...

Deb lived long enough to watch Trump run for president the first time, in 2015—to watch as Trump built a political base by ...

SB 515, introduced by Sen. Laura Richardson, would require local governments to collect demographic data on Black subgroups, ...

By Evelyn Uddin-Khan The president did not celebrate Juneteenth. Here is a quote from the reason he gave: “… too many holidays … businesses are losing billions …” All the shops where I live were ...

In 1898, in the landmark case of U.S. v Wong Kim Ark, the Supreme Court reaffirmed the birthright citizenship guarantee, ...

A long list of New York’s Black pastors and politicians endorsed former governor Andrew M. Cuomo in the run-up to the city’s Democratic primary for mayor last month. But it wasn’t surprising that ...