Before passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, scholars say Black-owned restaurants provided strategic cover for revolutionary activity.

“A Change Is Gonna Come” is the title of a recent lecture in Wesleyan College’s Transforming the South lecture series. Drawing a crowd of students and interested community members, the event — ...

Built for Black students in 1950 and closed during integration, Jordan Elementary is set to reopen as a community center.

A 1961 sit-in at the Jackson Public Library by nine Tougaloo College students challenged segregation in Mississippi.

Redd Foxx, a St. Louis native and pioneering stand-up comedian, rose to fame in the 1970s with his hit television series “Sanford and Son” and his unique comedy style that broke racial ...

ATLANTA, GA, UNITED STATES, February 2, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The U.S. Civil Rights Trail is expanding in 2026, ...

Leo Scott Sr. turned 100 years old on Feb. 10. His family celebrated the patriarch at a party.

Trying to stake out a sliver of space for the “moderate evangelical,” the magazine sometimes left readers confused and ...

Jesse Jackson, America’s most influential Black figure in the years between the civil rights crusades of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the election of Barack ...

Born in 1950, Readus Fletcher experienced his share of racial discrimination as a young man, but he also saw the dismantling ...

Chickasaw Park is special. It was designed by the Olmsted firm in 1923 for Louisville, Kentucky, and is believed to be the only Olmsted-designed park created specifically for a Black community during ...

More than a century after Piedmont’s first Black family bought their home and were subjected to a racial harassment campaign, the family’s descendants are suing for damages.