Discover 21 influential Black leaders who changed history through activism, politics, education, science and justice.

Some Black churches are pledging to support the National Museum of African American History and Culture following an ...

Civil rights advocates, historians and Black political leaders are sharply rebuking President Donald Trump for his order targeting the Smithsonian Institution.

Despite controversy, the Woolworth’s lunch counter exhibit at NMAAHC remains on display, securing a key piece of Civil Rights ...

Throughout history, progress has never been inevitable ... he became one of the most electrifying and visionary leaders the civil rights and Black liberation movements had ever seen.

Civil rights groups, labor organizations and politicians praised Alexis Herman as a "trailblazer" who fought for the rights ...

In a report that merged admiration with racial bigotry, the New York Tribune proclaimed, “This man, though Black, is a hero—one of the few History ... inalienable rights which belong to ...

On a Tuesday afternoon in 1950, April 25, in a board room jammed with owners and coaches of the fledgling league’s 12 (soon to be 11) teams, the Boston Celtics’ Walter Brown called out a name in the ...

There is so much history between the walls of Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, which has hosted funerals for Rosa Parks ...

“When you google Black History Month, it oftentimes the same ... Illuminating these experiences is integral to advancing Black women’s rights and economic justice.” “I had no idea that ...

We have Joseph James, who was a welder who fought for civil rights ... s pioneers, he said, because most World War II patriotic posters only portrayed White people. “These Black Americans ...

When Kimberly Moreland, president of the Oregon Black Pioneers’ board of directors, presents the stories of Oregon’s early Black residents, she often hears the same response: “I grew up in ...