Our ancestors are watching us, and they’re cheering us on,” Joan Walls said addressing dinner guests Saturday at the 59th ...

A public theologian and co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, Barber delivered the University’s 2025 Martin Luther King Jr.

With more local history made this week — first Black Urbana mayor elected (DeShawn Williams), first Black Champaign Central ...

It is painfully clear that President Donald Trump is attempting to whitewash America’s past. He is glossing over the worst ...

Let’s draw on the defiant wisdom of Frederick Douglass as Trump carries out a blitzkrieg against democracy in the US.

Ali's widow, Lonnie Ali, said in a statement that the proposed statue would clash with his faith, but she is grateful that ...

President Trump announced Thursday that the National Garden of American Heroes will be getting statues of Kobe Bryant, ...

It praises “American heroes such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Thomas Sowell, Justice Clarence Thomas, and countless others ...” (Martin Luther King Jr. is notably absent from the list.) ...

Donald Trump revealed that several Black icons, including Kobe Bryant, will be immortalized with a statue in the National Garden of American Heroes. Video This tribute will place Bryant alongside […] ...