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 ...

She was attacked by mounted police officers on "Bloody Sunday" in Selma. Her efforts, along with "Bloody Sunday," were ...

President Trump announced Thursday that the National Garden of American Heroes will be getting statues of Kobe Bryant, Muhammad Ali and Jackie Robinson.

President Trump shared plans to feature more than 10 Black historical figures in his proposed National Garden of American ...

Animator Jason Fleurant's Exhibit Treal Studios earned the award for an episode of its children's educational series Peanut Headz: Black History Toonz that paid homage to Jackie Robinson’s sports and ...

March 17 marks 106 years since the birth of musician Nat King Cole, whose success paved the way for future generations of ...

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

Former Women’s March national co-chair Tamika Mallory discusses this and uses her years of experience to explain why civil rights activists need to keep fighting against the Trump administration ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – If you’re not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem. Those words, in reference to race ...

Judge L. Clifford Davis, the civil rights lawyer who fought to desegregate North Texas school districts before becoming the first Black judge in Tarrant County, died Saturday at age 100.