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, ...

To commemorate Black History Month, Frederick News-Post staff photojournalist Katina Zentz talked to four women of the African American Resources Cultural and Heritage Society’s “Living Treasures” to ...

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

On Sunday at Skyline High School, students will perform speeches, poetry, monologues, and scenes in the tradition of Martin ...

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

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 ...

The historic Black Church was not established to be a passive institution, nor was it ever meant to cower before power. It ...

Claudette Colvin in 1954 PHOTO COURTESY OF DGT “I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there is no easy ...

(WHNT) — The history of Black people in Alabama is long, but for decades the teaching of that history was distorted and far from complete. Consider this from the 1970 edition of the 4th-grade history ...