A veteran activist of the Civil Rights Movement said he was notified by the Smithsonian Institution that items he loaned to the National Museum of African American ...

The name Linda Lockhart may not be a familiar one beyond the journalism community. But she deserves to be remembered ...

As president, he helped persuade companies like Estée Lauder and Ford to advertise in the pages of the first mass-circulation ...

Mr. Campbell’s criticism was authoritative in evaluation yet casual in expression. Or seemingly so: His prose was unfailingly ...

From 1997 to 2001, Amb. Davis was the first African American director of the Foreign Service Institute, the State Department’s chief language and training school just across the Potomac River in ...

In 1970, she became the first African-American student to graduate from Lutheran High School South in Affton. She received a full scholarship from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and attended the ...

Praising her more than four decades of service and her distinction of becoming the first African American to hold the associate superintendent position in GPISD, Parra expressed sadness in his post.

This week, in a rare moment of bipartisan unity, Congress awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to the 6888th Central Postal ...

A fencer’s refusal to compete against a transgender opponent in a women’s bout at a Maryland meet has put the issue in front ...

The show, which debuted in 1998, is based on the true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish man living in Atlanta in the early 20th ...

Shirley Beckley considered herself a historian of Ann Arbor's Black history with decades of activism and life experiences ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute's spring exhibit, "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style," comes at an ...