The Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient shared his personal mission to dismantle segregation and the lessons his mother ...

We owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to her and to everyone who led or participated in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, writes.

LeAnna Roberts, a Tuscaloosa native who earned three college degrees by age 16 and an MBA at 17, will speak at a Black ...

Long before the Montgomery bus boycott made Rosa Parks a household name, a 23-year-old laundress in Tampa named Hattie Wright staged her own act of defiance on a streetcar—a move that would ...

Trace the paths of civil rights heroes while savoring vegan Southern cuisine, bridging past struggles and present-day ...

Anela Malik worked as a diplomat before becoming a storyteller about Black food history — and much more. She hosts the web series, “Our Block,” about Black businesses and local heroes, organizes ...

Mr. Jackson was critical to Martin Luther King Jr.’s quest to transform a fight for equality in the South to a national ...

Before passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, scholars say Black-owned restaurants provided strategic cover for revolutionary ...

Mr. Jackson’s oratorical artistry possessed varied velocities, spellbinding cadences, compelling tones, fiery salvos and hushed and whispered articulations. His arsenal included rhyming admonitions — ...

The viral TikTok video has sparked many theories with one user concluding: "That baby is just happy to be included." ...

Many a socialite visited Ann Lowe’s Gowns, a salon on Manhattan’s Lexington Avenue, in the 1950s. The daughter and granddaughter of African American seamstresses, Lowe designed the wedding dress worn ...