G eorge Washington Williams was one complex dude. He was a soldier, a minister of the gospel, a lawyer, a politician, an ...

This month we take the opportunity to celebrate the life and legacy of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American on the United States Supreme Court. Associate Justice Marshall’s remarkable career ...

In your Black History Moment, we remember the Homer G. Phillips Hospital and salute the nurses who lived to experience its greatness. The hospital is named after a Black civil ...

Kennedy is a notable environmental lawyer, anti-vaccine activist, and former presidential candidate turned Donald Trump ally.

Loudoun resident Donna Bohanon was on the Loudoun County Heritage Commission that successfully campaigned for the renaming of ...

J.R. Clifford was many things, an activist, an educator, a journalist, a veteran and the first African-American lawyer in the ...

Segregation was an impetus for me. It was my life. It's my lived experience,” said Ninth Circuit Judge Johnnie Rawlinson. “No ...

Segregation was an impetus for me. It was my life. It's my lived experience,” said Ninth Circuit Judge Johnnie Rawlinson. “No ...

Barbara Jordan was a lawyer, educator, and politician who became the first ... Texas known as Jack Johnson. Johnson was the first African-American world heavyweight champion and a controversial figure ...

Saleh’s a first-generation farmer in New York, a state that has been hemorrhaging farms and farmland over the last few ...

Henry L. Marsh III, the first Black mayor of Richmond and a figure who embodied the rise of African American power in the city, died Thursday night at 91. Marsh, a civil rights lawyer, was Richmond’s ...