He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create, and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment and many different ...

The Black Cultural Heritage Trail, a first-of-its-kind in Palm Beach County, spotlights stories often overlooked in the ...

From Galveston to the Guggenheim, Black communities are gathering in joy—even as DEI gains, Black history and hard-won ...

One hundred and sixty years after word reached Galveston, Texas, that enslaved African Americans were now free, the city is ...

A new biography about New Jersey native Marsha P. Johnson details how she inspired a revolution through her joy.

President Donald Trump, who campaigned in 2020 on making Juneteenth a federal holiday, used the occasion this year to criticize the number of federal holidays—a comment many viewed as a direct slight ...

Food and restaurants played a surprisingly important role in the civil rights movement ... shine a light on the movement's famous activists as well as on the small, Black-owned businesses that ...

Reporter Kevin Sack's new book is a history of Charleston's Emanuel AME Church, the oldest Black congregation in the South, ...

Discover the empowering journey of Cincinnati's NCNW and their 30th Annual Bethune-Height Recognition Breakfast. Celebrating Black excellence and community.

1968— The United States Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in the sale and rental of housing. The deci­sion came in a case known as Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. The court used as its precedent ...

Dr. Ralph Mark Gilbert, often referred to as the father of Savannah's civil rights movement, was honored with a historical ...