Join us as we honor the rich history and contributions of African Americans during Black History Month. Our special television programming lineup features a collection of powerful historical ...

Important studies like Black Americans and the Missionary Movement in Africa and Black Americans and the Evangelization of ...

Sankofa: Looking Back to Go Forward opens Jan. 31 and runs through Feb. 28 at the A. L. Lewis Museum at American Beach, 1600 ...

In 1935, Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women, an “organization of organizations” to unify African American women’s organizations under one major umbrella. The Mary McLeod Bethune ...

As a former combat Marine, and a disabled Vietnam Veteran, I am very disappointed and disturbed with the ongoing immoral and ...

Northwestern’s Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities hosted a conversation about civil rights solidarity between race and ...

Trump’s return to office on MLK Day feels like a rebuke of everything King stood for and fought for: his personal decency and dignity as well as his ethical, moral and spiritual nobility. Trump’s ...

In 1948, she became the first Black woman in the regular Army Nurse Corps. She later served in Vietnam with the Air Force.

CHICAGO - The State of Illinois African Descent-Citizens Reparations Commission (ADCRC) announces the fourth stop on its nine-part series of statewide ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to abolish birthright citizenship is unambiguously and profoundly racist. We can conclude only that this is the whole point.

A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship to babies born on U.S. soil.

A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order denying U.S. citizenship to the ...