Newark Advocate history columnist Doug Stout of the Licking County Library shares writings about local African Americans as told by George B. Smythe.

And on the days in between: a city 2,000 miles from the capital locked in pitched battles over the use — abuse, many contend — of federal power and military authority to root out, detain and oust ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Top Republicans and Democrats alike are talking about the sudden rise of 33-year-old Zohran Mamdani, a state representative who won the Democratic mayoral primary in New York on ...

The nation's racial past and legacy are explored in traveling Jim Crow exhibit, "Overcoming Hateful Things," now at the Pink Palace in Memphis.

Art in public places is said to inspire pride and interest in one’s community, and the installations themselves often become landmarks, points of curiosity and cohesion, attracting people to sit on, ...

People attend the World Pride Rally and March at the Lincoln Memorial, Sunday, June 8,2025, on the National Mall in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree ...

NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans celebrated the return and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to Germany for racist research practices in the 19th century.

New Orleans celebrated the return and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to Germany for racist research practices in the 19th century. On Saturday, a ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans celebrated the return and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to Germany for racist research practices ...