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

It’s unlikely that big law firms will be destroyed by Trump’s ruthless campaign for retribution—but smaller firms, and ...

Trailblazing Black Judge Clarence Parrish was honored Friday with street signs on Teutonia Avenue between Center and Clarke streets. That area is where his law office used to be. In 1981, Parrish ...

"It's incredibly disappointing to see our government behaving this way. It's not the America I believe in. It's not the America I grew up in," said former Air Force Secretary ...

Promise. There's a plethora of talent and ingenuity that comes out of the Black community, so if you want your wardrobe (or beauty routine!) to look fresh and trend-setting, these are the ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he has instructed the Justice Department to terminate all remaining Biden-era U.S. attorneys, asserting that the department had been ...

See every Best Actor Oscar winner from 1929 onward, from the first honoree Emil Jannings to recent recipients such as Will ...

Though Mississippi historically sought to legally marginalize African Americans, Black jurists still made a remarkable impact ...

(AP) — An 1842 U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the kidnapping conviction of a white man who seized a Black family and forced them into ... of slavery-law precedents that continue to guide ...

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 years, according to retired U.S ...

Even people who put themselves through many extra years of schooling sometimes end up changing their minds. That’s the case ...

Students honored famous Black Americans for their contributions to society during a Black History Month program. FOX6's Bria Jones was a guest speaker at Milwaukee's Zablocki Elementary.