It has been more than 115 years since a Marshalltown man packed up his things and headed south to establish a school in the rural Mississippi backwoods. The Piney Woods School is still in existence ...

Iowa is filled with a rich history of the struggles Blacks faced and the resulting triumphs. Here are 10 Black History Month facts that Iowans should know. In the lead-up to the 2020 election ...

Amid fears of losing federal funding, Waterloo Community Schools backed out of an annual Black History Month reading event ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) — Don Graves’ quaint northside ... In the 1960s, Graves was hired as the first Black coach in Des Moines Schools. Before that, in 1958, six years before the Civil ...

Zoom in: Local historian Mike Rowley, who co-authored a book about the cemetery last year, highlighted some of the people buried there who made significant contributions to Black history. Editor and ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Basi Affia is making a name for himself as Iowa's first Black comic book publisher. Affia, who is a Lincoln High School alum, only got into comic books five years ago during ...

IOWA HAS ONE OF THE HIGHEST CANCER RATES IN THE COUNTRY. PROSTATE CANCER IS THE SECOND LEADING CAUSE OF CANCER DEATH IN AMERICAN MEN. AND ACCORDING TO THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, BLACK MEN ARE ...