Former Georgia State Representative Calvin Smyre has achieved many firsts and milestones in his career: he was the first ...

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

In his two terms in Congress, George Henry White, a Black attorney from Columbus County, was a pioneer in advancing the case for full rights and citizenship for African Americans ...

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

As chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Biden drafted the Senate version of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement ...

Photographer Andrew Feiler remembers the moment he first heard about Rosenwald schools. After publishing his first book, “Without Regard to Sex, Race, or ...

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 ...

An emotional General Assembly gathering to remember the 100 Black Virginians served in the Virginia General Assembly from the late 1870s to 1890 and in the 1867 constitutional convention.

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

Public statements on social media have suggested President Trump moved to end observance of Black History Month.

Broward’s members of Congress, who represent the most Democratic territory in the state, are facing a strategic and moral quandary as they try to figure out how to operate in a political environment ...