Through the Woman's Franchise League of Muncie, the Ball wives financially supported and represented the organization at ...

A high-impact exhibition on the civil rights activist—who orchestrated the 1963 March on Washington—opens at the National ...

The first Black child born in America, William Tucker, was probably born on this date in Jamestown, Va. However, some ...

Sundiata Cha-Jua is a professor of African American studies and history at the University of Illinois and a member of the North End Breakfast Club. His email is schajua@gmail.com.

Taken together, what we are seeing is an attack on the free press, and the ideals of free speech in academia and ... including the fearless Ida B. Wells, with lynchings when their writings got ...

A convention in July 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, sparked a 72-year-long, persistent national movement. Various women ...