Content warning: This piece includes an account of an apparent suicide.

Black History Month reminds us that it’s an appropriate time to reflect on our nation’s relentless struggles for freedom, especially those courageous people whose heroic efforts advanced the cause of ...

Civil rights activist Ida B. Wells will be featured on newly minted U.S. quarters. Historian Raffi Andonian joins Jenye Donaldson to share Wells' story.

Terry Alford, executive director of the Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor, called the church "one of the ...

The president of Harvard made an unjust decision in 1890, against his own directives, that silently smoothed the path for multitudes of much worse injustices to come – injustices that tore through the ...

The November Project Buffalo is kicking off its International Outdoor Fitness Winter Summit with an early morning workout at ...

The world's most iconic waterfalls sees millions of visitors every year - but this week they are being treated to a very rare ...

Ordinary and simple language is the key to effective rhetoric. But unlike much of the sloganeering from the right, it must be ...

On a sunny September day in 1897, Harrisburg’s African American leaders led a crowd to a forested spot north of Harrisburg to dedicate two headstones. One stone memorialized a beloved fugitive slave ...