Like Malcolm before him, the full measure of the lessons of Chokwe Lumumba’s life and the weight of his unexpected death on Tuesday, ...

Black America’s most eminent historian Dr. John Hope Franklin often told his students that the past is prologue to the future. His message ...

It’s a typical Tuesday morning at Sylvia’s, the beloved soul food emporium in the heart of Harlem. Regulars line  I the ancient pale ...

Forget what it sounds like for a minute, let’s consider the spirit of rock and roll: Rebellious. Energetic. Vocal. Independent. Driven. Unapologetic. Powerful. ...

April was a cruel month for Black people in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963. So was May, and the months that followed, culminating in ...

Brazil is the largest African nation on Earth in population, with the exception of Nigeria, and more Africans were brought there in the ...

“Mary Lou Williams is perpetually contemporary. Her writing and performing have always been a little ahead…her music maintains a quality that is timeless. ...

One of the ancestral imperatives of the New Negro Movement of the early twentieth century was for African-Americans to investigate and embrace their ...

He was born in poverty, worked as a shoe-shine boy, lived the thug life, walked around with a bullet in his back, and ...