Maryland establishes a commission to investigate its own lynching cases from the past. The Maryland Lynching Memorial Project ...

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Wikimedia Commons/JThom4295 The Wilmington coup of 1898 Wilmington once had a thriving Black community and mixed-race ...

Let’s call this what it is. The sudden release of over 230,000 pages of FBI files on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — two years ahead of schedule — is not about transparency. It’s a calculated, racially ...

July saw the death of heavy metal godfather Ozzy Osbourne, the Black Sabbath lead singer whose influence in the genre spans ...

There’s one thing that Walter Hood likes most about his new, open-plan office in Oakland. “There’s always someone hanging ...

A Fort Worth modern art exhibition and a new experimental film are part of a renaissance of work about an influential ...

More than 80 years later, officials, veterans and civil rights groups, are urging Congress to award World War II hero Dorie ...

Antone’s kicked off a year of 50th anniversary celebrations at the Austin Blues Festival in April. Here's howe we got there.

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Some people become well known because they achieve great feats. Others have greatness thrust upon them by events, and still others seem destined for notoriety from birth. Those are the ...

I started during the pandemic,” said Rosa Pryor-Trusty, about her new book "Maryland Black History Stories..." ...