Over the next four weeks, the D.C. area comes alive with events highlighting contributions made by the Black community, ...

Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenya's former president, told African leaders to consider Trump's freeze on foreign aid as a "wake-up call." ...

President Joe Biden has spent his final full day in office in South Carolina, where he urged Americans to “keep the faith in ...

Bonnie Watson Coleman, is the first Black woman to represent New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the first ...

Speaking in the heart of Detroit's Latino community, U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Detroit, pleaded Wednesday to protect immigrants, her voice at times overcome with emotion. Tlaib was joined by several ...

State Rep. Sonya Harper (D-Chicago), sponsor of the Enslavement Era Disclosure and Redress Act, said it’s a way for corporations that profited on the backs of enslaved people to help repair the legacy ...

but Smyre will be the first from Columbus and only the seventh African American with such a distinction – including the Rev.

Biden was introduced by Rep. Jim Clyburn ... The Bidens also toured the International African American Museum in Charleston. It was built on a waterfront site where tens of thousands of enslaved ...

Congress can shut down extremist international studies centers with a pen stroke.

Sandford case, with Chief Justice Roger Taney declaring that people of African descent living ... not a citizen. In 1887, Congress did pass a law creating a path to citizenship for at least some ...

The City of North Las Vegas honored the life and legacy of Theron Hulan Goynes, father of Mayor Pamela Goynes-Brown, who ...