Fifty-six years have passed since President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law. The legislation represented the first major social justice accomplishment...
John Lewis is one of the few architects of the modern Civil Rights Movement still living, having moved from the firebrand voice of the Student Nonviolent...
Breonna Taylor’s name is the most recent addition to the tragic list of Black women killed by police. The #SayHerName Movement launched in 2015 by attorney...
The anniversary of Brown versus the Board of Education is this weekend. It has been sixty-six years since the Supreme Court handed down its unanimous decision...
One of the nation’s most well-known investigative reporters survived a yellow fever outbreak in 1878 that killed her parents and a sibling and forced her to...
This weekend marks 52 years since an assassin’s bullet stole the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as he stood on the balcony...
The 1918 ‘Spanish Flu’ posed a threat to American troops rivaled only by the Germans and their allies in World War I with hundreds of Black...
After the last few days of the pandemic, who remembers what Punxsutawney Phil predicted about Spring. The calendar says Spring started March 19 which is the...
One of the most anticipated series on Netflix this spring is the story of the country’s first self-made female millionaire, Madam C.J. Walker, an African American...
A new TV network targeting an African American viewing audience launched today. Black News Channel (BNC) is headquartered in Tallahassee, Florida and co-founded by former Oklahoma...