The longtime lawmaker was remembered as a passionate education advocate and a civil rights icon who pushed for African ...

A growing number of prominent companies have scaled back or set aside the diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that ...

County officials in Springfield, Illinois, have agreed to pay $10 million to the family of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black ...

An august and majestic force in Orlando's drag scene, Darcel Stevens is unafraid to lend her timeless glamour and ...

Joyce Cusack, now 82, participated in a 1960 lunch counter sit-in in DeLand, Florida, at the age of 17 to protest segregation, inspired by the Greensboro Four.

An Orlando-area man is facing charges after he allegedly attacked and punched an elderly woman over a handicap parking space ...

John Phillips, 65 was arrested Monday for aggravated battery and abuse of an elderly or disabled adult after he beat a woman and her mother over a handicapped spot, according to the Orange County ...

Bessie Coleman was the first African American woman in world history to earn a pilot’s license and became a national ...

Following National Girls and Women in Sports Day, a look at Clemmie Perry’s initiative for change locally in Tampa Bay ...

Black women in the U.S. died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher white women around the time of childbirth in 2023.

When most teenagers were focused on cars and getting their driver's licenses, Jayla Jackson was determined to learn how to fly.

This year, the national theme of Black History Month is “African Americans and Labor.” Here are ways to honor Black history and culture in Central Florida this month.