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 ...

Black policing in Miami was not always as integrated as it is today. Black officers were once marginalized. The Black Police ...

In our own community, women continue to break new ground in various fields, like Judge Tierra Jones, a powerful figure in the courtroom whose impact is felt beyond her role.

They fed, protected and housed activists who traveled to Selma, Alabama, in March 1965 to demonstrate for voting rights.

she became Ghana's first female world boxing champion and the first woman to travel the world as a member of the West African nation's national team. "My aunts and siblings didn't like it when I ...

DURBAN, South Africa — Dylan Naidoo held his nerve on the first playoff hole against Laurie Canter with a birdie putt to win the rain-marred South African Open on Sunday for his first European ...

The Frogs (27-3, 15-2 Big 12) went 19-0 at home, where it could start the women's NCAA Tournament. That included their first win over Baylor in 35 years, since the Texas teams were together in the ...

This Black History Month, Treasure Island is making history. Ashly Hubbard is Treasure Island's first female African American firefighter. Hubbard's passion is her job. "It's a reward that you can ...

Born in Poughkeepsie, Jane Bolin graduated from Yale Law School in 1931 and went on to become the first African American female judge to serve in family court in the United States. During her ...

The portrait arrived in Portland in 1873. Its subject, Macon Bolling Allen, was admitted to the Maine bar decades earlier as the nation's first Black lawyer. His picture hung at City Hall for several ...

Judge L. Clifford Davis, whose persistence in seeking enrollment at the U of A during the 1940s pushed the university toward desegregation, died Feb. 15, 2025, in Texas.