The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought to ...

Mariposa California's original daily updated online newspaper is the premier site for news and information on Yosemite, Mariposa, California and United States ...

Black History Month was recognized nationally in 1976, when President Gerald Ford designated the month as a time for the ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators (and their students) are eager to learn more about underrepresented ...

There are many influential African Americans in US History. Many have stood up against slavery, segregation and racial legacy ...

On June 20, 1993, Ashe was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal ... was an American civil rights activist in Mississippi, the state's field secretary for the NAACP, and a World War II ...

Muhammad operates the Torchlight Academy Black History tours year-round, especially during black history month and Juneteenth. He says the words etched in stone is a sign that delineates segregation, ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed an order restoring the name of a storied special operations forces base back to Fort Bragg. The North Carolina base was renamed Fort Liberty ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed an order restoring the name of a storied special operations forces base in North ...

Many Charlotte-area residents are familiar with some of the more notable figures in local Black history, people like Harvey Gantt, the first Black student accepted to enroll at Clemson University who ...

February has been celebrated as Black History Month in the U.S. since 1976 during the nation’s bicentennial, according to ...