Lafontant was born Jewel Carter Stradford in 1922 to a prominent African American family. Her father, C. Francis Stradford, ...

Ernestine "Tina" Martin Wyatt, Harriet Tubman's great-great-great grandniece, attends the Washington, D.C., premiere of the biopic Harriet at the Smithsonian National Museum Of African American ...

Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, the SPLC honors 40 civil rights martyrs with a ceremony focused on today’s fight to preserve ...

Before 1619, enslaved landed in Florida. In 1738, their descendants founded the country’s first free Black settlement, Fort ...

China has emerged as a graveyard for foreign law firm outposts. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati’s decision to close its Beijing office last week marked the 18th American firm to exit Greater ...

The plight of the African-American experience in America has been tightly intertwined with and displayed through the lens of the national pastime. Whether it be the fight to break through the ...

Celebrate Black Press Day on March 16, recognizing the history and significance of Black-owned newspapers in the United ...

The cover of 'Nance: A Girl of Color and Her Lawyer Abraham Lincoln,' a new book by Kevin Orlin Johnson. It details the case ...

As Virginia's first female newspaper publisher, Clementina Rind emphasized women's viewpoints and collaborated with prominent ...

A story about a mental health bill that was published by The Canadian Press on Wednesday, March 12, used an incorrect first name for the Speaker of British Columbia’s legislature. His name is Raj ...

Leader’s yearlong examination of Lexington’s 250 years of history examines the story of Charlotte Dupuy, who sought her ...