I am a white, cis, heterosexual, well-educated woman of privilege. That matters for this piece because my social location is the context, while my experiences have formed who I am.

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

Woodson also founded Associated Publishers, which, in addition to publishing the Journal of Negro History, prepared kits for ...

Do you know who Anthony Benezet is? Or was?  Think about an early incarnation of Martin Luther King, Jr. … in whiteface.  Or Frederick Douglass’s brother from another mother.  Better […] ...

The historic Black Church was not established to be a passive institution, nor was it ever meant to cower before power. It ...

Claudette Colvin in 1954 PHOTO COURTESY OF DGT “I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there is no easy ...

(WHNT) — The history of Black people in Alabama is long, but for decades the teaching of that history was distorted and far from complete. Consider this from the 1970 edition of the 4th-grade history ...

The audience applauded ecstatically as Trump rattled off names of various black figures to be honored in a special National ...

The space is a window into the mind of the pioneering artist, who saved nearly everything.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day was celebrated in Moses Lake. Charlie Jones (one of the primary sponsors of past events who passed ...

The lyrics of Deniece Williams rang out across the auditorium of the High Point Museum on Saturday, Feb. 22, when the Just ...

For years, the celebration of Black History Month has aroused conservative ire around “identity politics” and “special rights ...