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Ellen?Stewart, the founder and director of the Off-Off-Broadway pioneering group La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, died Thursday at New York’s...

Filmmaker Stanley Nelson says his new documentary about the courageous activists who defiantly opposed the 1960s segregation of the South...

He’s the most famous son of this quiet mountain hamlet in western Massachusetts. But until recently, people looking for signs...

Democrat Terri Sewell has become the first black woman to be elected to the U.S. House from Alabama. Sewell won...

A lawyer rejected from practicing law in Pennsylvania in the 1800s because he was black has been posthumously admitted to...

He couldn’t go to medical school in New York, so James McCune Smith went to Scotland for his degree and...

On November 20, 2009 when Oprah Winfrey announced that she was ending her award-winning talk show, media outlets discussed who...

Emmy-winning CBS News correspondent Harold?Dow, who helped shape the documentary program “48 Hours” and covered the kidnapping of Patricia Hearst...

Monte?Irvin will leave the pioneer status to Jackie Robinson, the first African-American major leaguer. Yet those who admired Irvin and...