William Lacy Clay Sr.'s career in political office started when he was 28 years old. The civil rights advocate was a strong ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar, who wrote during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is credited as one of the first influential Black poets in America. A graduate of Howard University, he was ...

This is an opinion column. A chair was just a chair — until Miriam Elizabeth Benjamin put a light and a bell on one. Benjamin was a schoolteacher, composer and inventor, born in 1861 in Charleston, ...

ST. LOUIS — William "Bill" Clay Sr., Missouri's first Black congressman and a St. Louis civil rights leader, died Thursday morning. He was 94.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is lashing out at Trump’s attorney general after the administration said there is no ...

But Musk was remarkably short of words in reacting to the controversy. “Never a dull moment on this platform,” Musk posted ...

The immediate aftermath of the Floyd murder entailed what many call the largest protest in United States history. Millions of people across the country marched peacefully but protested vocally about ...

Many respondents had similar sentiments: the American Dream never existed, and Black Americans need to build their own dream.

The Trump Trick: Pardon Black Celebs, Make It Easier to Imprison Black People A woman who was pardoned by the president in 2019 is now a key figure in a bizarre sleight of hand.

Donald Trump’s biographer has given some insights into the way he thinks the president perceives the Black community. “Clearly, he has some issue with Black people,” Michael Wolff told The ...

Although Memorial Day now commemorates those who died in all wars, it began when Black people commemorated the Civil War in 1865.