After a judge blocked their removal to Libya, immigration officials appear to have sent them to another war-torn African ...

Malcolm X—who would be very proud of Ibrahim Traore, the Pan-African president of Burkina Faso—would have been 100 years ...

He saw violence as a tool of resistance against the oppression of Black people. Malcolm X, who was born 100 years ago, ...

Thurgood Marshall came to rural Hillburn, launching the effort to desegregate American schools that culminated in Brown v. Board of Education.

The Salisbury-Rowan NAACP, Rowan Museum, and Soldiers’ Memorial AME Zion Church invite the community to a Memorial Day Commemoration Ceremony and March on May 25 at 3 p.m., beginning at Soldiers ...

Nottoway plantation just burned down, so we decided to look into its history and other plantations where the most brutal ...

Erskine Henderson, an African American jockey, wins the Kentucky Derby on “Joe Cotton”—a horse trained by Alex Perry—an ...

Carnegie Mellon University professor Edda Fields-Black provided an introduction to her lecture about Harriet Tubman's role in the 1863 Combahee River raid, a secret military mission against ...

Kentucky 6th District Congressman Andy Barr, R-Lexington, has introduced the Camp Nelson National Monument Boundary Expansion ...

Repelled by American racism, thousands of free people of color bounced between New Orleans and Haiti in the 19th century.

Black Civil War soldier Private Aaron Bromley is buried in an unmarked Monroe grave. A Temperance teen is making sure he's ...