Valdez's latest novel, "Happy Land," explores land ownership through the generations. She shares her thoughts on land ...

Residents of Turner Station, a historically African-American community, struggle to recover from the collapse of the Francis ...

Born in 1889 to former slaves, Webster was part of the first free generation of African Americans in the U.S. She earned an ...

The fate of Fessenden, Anthony, Sparr, and Reddick-Collier Elementary Schools was discussed as Marion County School District ...

Why does it feel so good to be in a garden? The latest collaboration with USA Today shares the plants, people and stories of ...

The new club is taking over the space of a former sports bar in uptown Charlotte, near Bank of America Stadium.

Kalamazoo’s first African American firefighter ... The brown paper bag effect was a discriminatory practice used in the 1800s and 1900s. A person’s skin tone was compared to the shade of ...

Trump, like Putin, seems to believe that it’s his prerogative as the leader of a global superpower to seize land to promote U ...

The term “Buffalo Soldiers” was a nickname given to African American Soldiers who served in the United States Army in the west after the civil war. They were the topic of discussion today for Pocomoke ...

Author Dolen Perkins-Valdez draws inspiration from a real-life kingdom in North Carolina founded by formerly enslaved Black Americans for her new novel.

Mirtha Donastorg looked at how companies like Atlanta Life Insurance descended from the mutual aid and benevolence tradition among freed and enslaved African Americans in the 1800s to become a ...

Experience the inspiring story of Akeelah and The Bee, a young Black girl's journey to the Scripps National Spelling Bee, at ...