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 ...

From the founding of the United States until long after the Civil War, hundreds of the elected leaders writing the nation’s laws were current or former slaveowners.

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 ...