He arrived in California in 1876, settling first in the Stockton area and then in Humboldt County in 1883. In 1885, he ...

Records show Wes was found at the home of his alleged lover by her husband and managed to escape. He was turned over to the ...

Suscol Intertribal Council has worked to create a place for Napa’s original inhabitants, the Native American population, in ...

Longtime Houstonians -- including people who were born here -- explain their abiding love for this mystifying city.

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad — Spanish for “Friendship” ...

A project at Cal Poly is exploring the contributions of Afro-descendants in early Spanish and Mexican California.

Funeral services for Theodore Roosevelt Hopson, III, 56, of Wedowee will be held on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, at 3 p.m. at Benefield Funeral Chapel with Bro. Henry Nelson officiating. Burial will ...

H. Kent Baker, quadruple Eagle and professor of finance in the Kogod School of Business, made the largest individual donation in American University history for the School of Education. AU’s Board of ...

Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture. That’s when Leeper made history by becoming the first Black woman ... In 1966, Williams and his family moved to China at then-Chinese leader Mao ...

Ayden Rivera of North Bergen was voted the top junior boys basketball player in the state this week by earning 49.3 percent ...

And while Black History celebrations have been held for decades, some people may not realize how this month-long celebration began. It all started with a scholar named Carter G. Woodson, who founded ...