black_history_makers

Lena Horne, the enchanting jazz singer and actress known for her plaintive signature song “Stormy Weather” and for her triumph...

The recent deaths of Dorothy Height and Benjamin Hooks, two icons of the civil rights era, nudge those who have...

The late Percy Ellis Sutton, who joined the ages last December, was no stranger to these pages or website.? In...

Tourists and history buffs will be able to see some rare, personal belongings of abolitionist Harriet Tubman when a museum...

Anybody who thinks that the medical establishment?s secret exploitation of African-Americans in the name of science ended with the notorious...

Georgia Congressman John?Lewis strolled to the middle of the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday and remembered the incident 45 years...

The four college freshmen walked quietly into a Greensboro dime store on a breezy Monday afternoon, bought a few items,...

Some of the world?s most popular inventions were created by African-Americans, dating back to 1820, when Thomas Jennings, believed to...