On this day in 1995, Dr. Bernard Harris Jr. made history, stepping into the vastness of space and becoming the first African ...

A small African-American community thrived in southern Chittenden County starting in the late 1700s. One Black Vermonter is said to be the first Black ... of sale signed by God Almighty Himself.” ...

In The Unseen Truth, Sarah Lewis examines how an erroneous 18th-century story about the “Caucasian race” led to a centuries ...

The Black church has long played a significant role in supporting faith and the fight for Civil Rights in America, with its origins dating back to the first African American congregations in the ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

Mother Henriette Delille founded the Sisters of the Holy Family, a U.S. congregation of black sisters that cared for the poor ...

There are many influential African Americans in US History. Many have stood up against slavery, segregation and racial legacy ...

Kevin Waters is the first African American to be an owner of a professional sports team in Jacksonville, and the first to be ...

From entrepreneurship and music to activism and faith, these powerful stories shape Northern California’s Black community.

Quite frankly, Amaechi and El-Rufai were dead right. Nigerians are too docile and possess incredibly short-spanned memory. It ...

Smith, a founder of the city and its first African American mayor ... with Smith urging him to try again and again. “He made me aware that it wasn’t about winning or losing; the assignment ...

was among the first to arrive in the Lone Star State in 1528 as part of the initial Spanish exploration of what is now the southwestern United States, according to the TSHA. African Americans ...