The bold stage show '3 Summers of Lincoln' — starring Ivan Hernandez, Quentin Earl Darrington, Carmen Cusack and Saycon ...

Abraham Jackson was struck by a train as he headed toward a Emancipation Day event. Robin Reshard's new production retells ...

In a historic Gothic church turned playhouse in Trenton’s Mill Hill neighborhood, two brothers take the stage in a story that ...

The job of a poet laureate is to engage Illinoisans in poetry, with each poet laureate given a small stipend to enact that ...

North Hills Ebony Women Inc. held its annual Black History Month celebration March 2 at La Roche University’s Zappala Campus ...

Adam Krall, a historic site interpreter with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, showcases an original rifle that ...

Edward McCook read President ... the works of Black musicians and composers from the past. And the production features the character of "Sarah," an imagined love interest of Abraham's.

Lincoln woman turned love of baking, Japanese desserts into a business with help from the ECHO Collective; three council ...

The self-taught artist Abraham ... Black population that never recovered economically after the civil unrest of the 1960s. Kerr was responding to an unsolicited email from a man named Lincoln ...

A new law, buried inside an otherwise obscure piece of federal legislation, permits the Washington, D.C., City Council to establish a commission that will give “reparations” to descendants of enslaved ...