Children of civil rights figure murdered in Jacksonville watched on Friday morning as the city unveiled a marker honoring her ...

From Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali to Colin Kaepernick, the achievements of Black athletes have had a role in advancing civil rights.

Jacksonville officials will unveil a historic marker to remember civil rights martyr Johnnie Mae Chappell on Friday at 10 a.m. at the Lincoln Villa Community Center.

President Donald Trump announced the creation of the National Garden of American Heroes during a Black History Month ceremony at the White House. The outdoor statue park will honor iconic American ...

Three Bucknell University students in 1946 wanted nothing to do with the racial and ethnic discrimination embraced by most ...

In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...

To young and old today who want to make a change, Rita Omokha proclaims, “Tell yourself you can — and watch yourself prove it ...

Many Charlotte-area residents are familiar with some of the more notable figures in local Black history, people like Harvey Gantt, the first Black student accepted to enroll at Clemson University who ...

HONOLULU — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson's big-league baseball debut and the U.S. Army's retaking of Seoul during the Korean War, died Friday. He was 98.

Johnson, and Max Robinson. While there’s a push to add more ... Black students at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.