Since 1976, February has been designated as Black History Month, and those from New Bedford don’t have to look far to see the significant impact the Black community has had on the city. Many great ...

The 313+ Ancestors Speak Project at Siloam Hope First Presbyterian Church preserves burial records dating to 1766, giving ...

Black History Month is often framed around struggle, symbolism, and cultural firsts. All of those matter. But there is another story less visible.

They didn’t think I’d finish my walk alive," Moore wrote in his diary. "They didn’t think people believed I really stood for the things I do.” ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, one of the country's most influential leaders, has died at 84. The founder and long-time leader of the Rainbow-Push Coalition ran for president twice and inspired millions.

In the order, President Trump had charged the secretary of the interior with ensuring that public monuments “focus on the greatness of the achievements and progress of the American people.” Black ...

In 1988 President Ronald Reagan argued that “the federal government declared a war on poverty, and poverty won”. Thomas Sowell, a 95-year-old economist at the Hoover Institution and social-media ...

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Florida Black history clear in St Lucie, Treasure Coast, as museum on drawing board. Tradition school teaches science via YouTube, new music video.

In 1988, the power brokers of the Democratic Party watched a Chicago civil rights leader, a maverick with a movement he called a "Rainbow Coalition," start to threaten the presidential candidacy of ...

They were beaten, arrested, and called traitors, but they refused to back down from the fight for civil rights.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died this week, ran for president twice, leading more Black voters to register. The year after his second run, a Black mayor, David Dinkins, won in New York.