Plessy Vs. Ferguson was held in 1896, and was about an African American Homer Plessy who boarded a train in New Orleans. The final ruling of the landmark case held that racial segregation was ...

Negro and black are synonymous. Black and “African-American” are not. Slaves were Black. Homer Plessy was Negro. Negro Leagues had Black baseball players. HBCU means Historically Black Colleges and ...

Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the legal doctrine of “separate but equal”. It was a ruling that enabled many states to enact racial segregation ...

For this and more phenomenal American-Statesman coverage delivered ... the softball program recorded its first-ever walk-off homer. While securing a 1-0 victory over Hofstra, Keely Franks hit ...

Shohei Ohtani delivered in front of a sold-out Tokyo Dome as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Yomiuri Giants 5-1 in an exhibition matchup Saturday. The three-time MVP recorded one hit in two at ...

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by at least 150,000 years ago. Previously, the oldest secure evidence for humans living in African rainforests dated to about ...

At the plate: Kris Bryant, who’s hopeful he can stay healthy this season, hit a mammoth two-run homer off Chicago right-hander Jairo Iriarte in the fourth inning. Bryant’s first home run of ...

Despite policies of racial segregation and discrimination, African-American soldiers played a significant role from the colonial period to the Korean War. It wasn't until the middle of the 20th ...

JOHANNESBURG, March 13 (Reuters) - The Southern African Development Community (SADC) said on Thursday that a summit of regional heads of state had terminated the mandate of its troop deployment in ...

In his sixth game, Javier Báez crushed his first home run in spring training. It was his first homer since undergoing right hip surgery, which required six months of rehabilitation. "He's putting ...

A B-52 and two F-35s flying over central Oslo. Fabian Helmersen / Forsvaret An American B-52 bomber aircraft flew over central Oslo on Friday, escorted by Norwegian F-35 fighter jets. The American ...