The Department of Justice is reopening the investigation into the murder of Emmett Till. Till was abducted and killed in August 1955 by two white men...
Today is recognized as Juneteenth, the day the enslaved in Galveston, Texas learned of the Emancipation Proclamation. Just the year before in 1864 and also after...
“You need fiber, leave in the stem.” “Cut the greens thin.” In a robust voice that seemed unaffected after hours in temperatures that topped 115 degrees...
Days after Juneteenth, TheVillageCelebration is still celebrating with photos from around the country. East St. Louis, Pine Bluff, Arkansas and Little Rock, Arkansas are featured in...
The home stretch to the 2018 mid-term elections starts today for voters in eight states following Tuesday’s primaries. In Milwaukee, organizers have been eyeing the crucial...
The summer of 1919 was an extraordinarily bloody period of racial violence in American history, so much so that black author and activist, James Weldon Johnson...
The sky is the limit for the group of pilots gathered for the 22nd annual Black Pilots of America (BPA) Operation Skyhook at Pine Bluff’s Grider...
Three generations of Americans mourned the passing of the man who composed “Schoolhouse Rock”, the popular series of animated educational messages set to music and embraced...
In the spacious, light-filled Great Hall at the Clinton Presidential Library today, a crowd of supporters and admirers celebrated the late poet, author, and activist Maya...
So… about the lynching museum being built in Montgomery, Alabama and featured recently during CBS’ 60 Minutes. I am just as surprised as many African Americans...