The longtime lawmaker was remember as a passionate education advocate and a civil rights icon who pushed for African American ...

Florida state Sen. Geraldine Thompson, a Democrat who represented the Orlando area, died Thursday following complications from knee replacement surgery, her family said. She was 76.

A memorial is in the works for four African Americans who were buried in downtown Evansville in the early 19th century. Officials with the Evansville African American Museum will host a community ...

The husband of a New Jersey woman who was killed by a rampaging hippopotamus during the couple’s trip in the African country ...

On a banner hung from a chain link fence in Robles Park are the names of those buried in what is believed to be Tampa’s oldest African American cemetery, Zion Cemetery ...

Ellis’ dream of wresting power from the emperor was but one small moment in his boundary-breaking life. Eulogized as a ...

February is “Black History Month”, and people join together in paying tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve their right to full independence in ...

Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr, a decorated World War II pilot who broke racial barriers as a Tuskegee Airmen and earned ...

William Nesbit, an African American man who moved to Blair County in the mid-1800s was instrumental in helping others secure ...

As part of the upcoming 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence known as the Semiquincentennial to be celebrated on July 4, 2026, the library local history department has ...

African Americans in the 20th Century,” at Scandinavia House through March 8. Organized by the National Nordic Museum in Seattle, where it had its debut last year, the exhibition features ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who battled racial discrimination in a barrier-breaking career as a military nurse, serving as the first African American in the regular Army Nurse Corps and later caring ...