After more than a decade of planning, fundraising, and building, the new museum is open in Anacostia and celebrating go-go, D ...

In honor of Women’s History Month, Historic Dorchester Academy will rededicate the Boys’ Dormitory as “Elizabeth B. Moore ...

The preacher and civil rights activist tells us that we can all live and work together to make society a better place.

Today’s clergy need to answer the Rev. Martin Luther King’s call six decades ago to step up, organize and take action.

The Boys and Girls Club of Moultrie celebrated Black History Month by putting on an event at its different sites.

Educators are embracing rather than restricting discussions of race in schools. Leaders have said they’ll do so whether the ...

A $16 million redevelopment project that will transform the Upton Mansion into the new home of The Afro-American newspaper ...

With more local history made this week — first Black Urbana mayor elected (DeShawn Williams), first Black Champaign Central ...

Historian Vicki Crawford was one of the first scholars to focus on women’s roles in the civil rights movement. Her 1993 book, ...

Woodson also founded Associated Publishers, which, in addition to publishing the Journal of Negro History, prepared kits for ...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s bold quest to fight for peace across the nation and for all people to be treated equally led to the Civil Rights Movement. Although his acts of selflessness cemented his name ...

As a college president who is passionate about expanding access to education, I don’t have all the answers right now. But I ...