Growing up, Dayna James never thought she’d willingly step foot on a plantation, let alone thank God for one. On an early ...

For the briefest of moments, a silence fell over the pews of New Orleans’ famed St. Louis Cathedral, as the chapel filled ...

In his first big-screen appearance as Captain America, Anthony Mackie is trapped in an incomprehensible mess designed to tie ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

The artists spoke to LGBTQ Nation about the mentors who inspired them to show up for the Black queer community.

They marked the moment when vast numbers of people, for the very first time, experienced rock ‘n’ roll as a kind of reckless ...

In the early 1960s, when I was a little boy, the Ku Klux Klan attacked my family by burning a cross in front of our house, ...

Marcus Garvey ignited one of the most phenomenal social movements in modern history and was admired around the world. Yet few ...

Feb. 27 — In 1869, John Willis Menard rose from his seat in the chamber of the U.S. Congress to defend his status as the ...

Eugene Bullard survived some of the deadliest battles in military history, became the world’s first Black fighter pilot, and even had his own monkey sidekick—and all before the age of 30. He went on ...

Virginia General Assembly commends Retired Master Gunnery Sergeant Carroll Braxton in celebration of his 100th birthday.

They were the first to hear composer Edmond Dédé ... “And the reality is that in the United States – in the person of Dédé – Black people were (already) participating in classical ...