While Till's accused killers, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, were acquitted by an all-white jury, the two later admitted to Till ...

Over the past decade, the job description for the mayor of Chicago has included a new duty: responding to Donald Trump. The ...

Black men saw their unemployment rate spike to 6.9% from 5.6% in January, bucking the overall unemployment rate trend for the ...

Carter Woodson was a tireless promoter of Black culture who planted seeds for what became Black History Month a century ago ...

Illinois struck down laws that kept free Black people from entering the state in 1865, a year after the Illinois Colored ...

The father-son piano duo Ryan & Ryan will present “Going Gershwin,” at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, in the Blizzard Theatre at Elgin Community College, 1700 Spartan Drive. George Gershwin songs, including ...

John Schriffen grew up in a family of civil rights activists. His grandfather, Alphonso Deal, was the NAACP president of ...

Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez was ejected from the meeting of the Special Events Committee by the normally affable chair, Ald. Nick ...

Chicago has always provided a place for the disenfranchised, whether from the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century, ...

Critics argue that deportation efforts disproportionately target Black and Latino migrants while overlooking white undocumented immigrants.

February is Black History Month, a time the country highlights and celebrates the accomplishments of Black Americans. And the ...

The Army identified the third soldier on the Black Hawk helicopter involved in the midair crash over the Potomac River ...