Though their accolades are certainly still due, Black women have long played a vital role in shaping the political landscape ...

Black History Month wasn’t always a monthlong celebration. In February 1926, historian and author Carter G. Woodson created Negro History Week. It was a weeklong celebration in an effort to teach ...

By Loucoumane Coulibaly, Emmanuel Bruce and Benoit Nyemba ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Africans are hoping one of their own could ...

Oregon Black Pioneers will offer tours in Portland, Jacksonville, Oregon City, Astoria, Eugene and Salem from May through ...

and Black people in general, is extremely important,” Lee told theGrio during a recent interview. It wouldn’t be the first time that Lee has made history in Oakland. In 1998, she was the first ...

the largest transfer of land wealth to black people in the history of the United States. It was the “40-acres-and-a-mule” promise from the Civil War made real; black members of the Creek ...

OK, I’m lying?” Crockett said. “You’re not, you’re not. We done picking cotton. We are. You can’t pay us enough to find a ...

Keep swiping for a Women’s History Month tribute to the many Black female musicians, much like Aaliyah did 25 years ago with “Try Again,” who topped the Billboard Hot 100 and made history in ...

Cardinal Peter Turkson has emerged as one of the front runners who cold be made the next leader of the Catholic Church, following the demise of Pope Francis.