CENTRAL FLORIDA — Black History Month is celebrated every February to honor the contributions and legacies of African Americans across U.S. history. Since it was first nationally recognized in ...

Norwich, Connecticut continues its tradition as the first city in the state to celebrate Juneteenth, with events planned ...

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in ...

Several Juneteenth events will be held all across the Alamo City - with many starting before the federal holiday. Juneteenth, commemorates the date of June 19, 1865 when Union General Gordon Granger ...

The 16-day festival is underway now, and will culminate with a concert and fireworks display on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway ...

MERRILLVILLE — The hard work of several Merrillville Intermediate School students was highlighted Tuesday as they shared their research of the many accomplishments of African Americans.

It wasn't until the 1970s when Black college students and professors at Kent State University in Ohio pushed to expand Negro History Week to a month Dr. Carter G. Woodson was born the son of ...

TAMPA BAY, Fla. — Black History Month is celebrated every February to honor the contributions and legacies of Black and African Americans across U.S. history. Since it was first nationally ...

Ahead of Juneteenth, leaders of local, historic African American churches reflected on the importance of the church for the Black community in Decatur. Juneteenth commemorates the day that slaves in ...

The very things that preserved public memory of Black history. In 1949 Barber died in Philadelphia. He was not murdered in public, like other victims of the Atlanta Race Massacre in 1906, but he ...

A ceremonial groundbreaking will be held Thursday for the rebuilding of one of the nation's oldest Black churches, whose ...