The Amherst County NAACP Branch 7045 is sponsoring a Reader’s Theatre play to celebrate Black History Month at Second Stage Amherst on Feb. 28 and March 1. The play, “Freedom Riders ...

More than 200 people attended the stamp unveiling in recognition of political trailblazer Constance Baker Motley at the Robert Ross Johnson Family Center in St. Albans on Tuesday.Baker Motley was ...

Queens Representative Greg Meeks and Appellate Division Justice Valerie Brathwaite Nelson helped unveil a postage stamp of ...

Educational material about Black people, Latinos and women in the military have been changed on Arlington National Cemetery website.

Arlington National Cemetery has removed DEI references from its website. They are not the first of their kind to do so. Under ...

Users could also read about Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first Black person to sit on the high court ... This is just the kind of history that we want students to be learning, a ...

Biographer Wil Haygood has become as much of a national treasure (at least to the black ... subject — Thurgood Marshall — became for his legal acumen, tenacity and championing of racial underdogs. If, ...

From racial terror to literacy tests to modern-day voter suppression, efforts to silence Black political power have never stopped.

The Marshall Field’s flagship department store on State Street on March 10, 2004. (Abel Uribe/Chicago Tribune) 2004: Target Corp. announced it was putting Chicago retailing icon Marshall Field ...

The winners of the Black History Month art contest at Southside High were recognized for their exemplary art skills on Tuesday, March 4. Each showed off their work, which included numerous mediums.

This year's Black History Month theme is labor ... Veal received support through programs that also include the nonprofit Thurgood Marshall College Fund. Veal talked about the importance of mentorship ...