As the nation pauses to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr., I felt the need to commemorate some of our own ...

In 1894, at Washington’s Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, Frederick Douglass delivered the last great speech ...

In “I Am Nobody’s Slave,” memoirist Lee Hawkins reaches deep into his family history and finds redemption in understanding ...

The power of storytelling has always been at the heart of Black resistance. Long before social media activism and viral ...

Rev. Haynes, an educator and social activist who was awarded the 2022 Presidential Lifetime Achievement Leadership Award in ...

Amelia Bloomer feared that she would be remembered for a momentary fashion faux pas rather than for her critical work as a ...

More people are growing curious about sobriety, and where there is curiosity, there are books to recommend. I’ve gathered ...

For enslaved people in the Americas, the holiday season was a time of both rare festivity and calculated resistance.

Dar es Salaam. Former President Jakaya Kikwete has disclosed the factors that led him to appoint Frederick Werema as a High Court judge in 2006, citing his legal expertise and commitment to justice as ...

At different times in his adult life, the 55-year-old claimed he had earned more than six figures a year. Yet, less than a week before Christmas, Douglass found himself destitute, homeless ...

Craig Douglass served as executive director of the Arkansas Democratic Party from 1975-1977. He is currently executive director of the Regional Recycling District.