On April 15, 1947, a Black man stepped onto Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field to reverse a wrong in pro sports that had lasted 63 ...

When Nikki Giovanni visited our Chicago offices last July, the icon was full of an array of stories. As we followed her around ...

Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, two of our most beloved performers, have long been known as brilliant actors and staunch activists for African-American human ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture announced it will celebrate Women’s History Month by honoring Black women through a ...

The Harriet Tubman Home is on a mission to preserve the legacy of its namesake, abolitionist and Civil War spy Harriet Tubman, after a newly ...

Before Danny Glover became a famous actor, he was an activist. In fact, he wasn’t simply born to be an activist, he was ...

The 44th president and first lady of the United States have book deals, ABC News reports. The two reportedly have signed with Penguin Random House, ...

Flying solo in a U-2 in 2004 was not the first solo flight for me. As a student pilot, you do your first ...

The architect behind the National Museum of African-American History and Culture will lead the planning of the exhibits that will be housed at ...

During the summer of 1996, unfortunately, I was waiting to go to bootcamp. But they never came and got me so I was ...