African-Americans have had a long presence in Connecticut. At a Feb. 25 program at the Windsor Historical Society, Elizabeth Normen, publisher of the magazine “Connecticut Explored,” said she ...

She was 82-years-old and remained a slave until her death. African-Americans in Connecticut used to elect their own governors During colonial times, New England African Americans democratically ...

It was the late 1970s, and he was 8 or 9 years old, the eighth in a family of 11 children from a poor and mostly African-American neighborhood in Hartford, Connecticut. The shore of Long Island ...

Each year, U.S. presidents proclaim February as National African-American History Month." Click through the slideshow to see the breakdown of black population in southwestern Connecticut's towns ...

Beginning in fall of 2022, Connecticut will require high schools to offer African-American, Black, Puerto Rican and Latino studies, becoming the first state in the nation to do so. Connecticut Gov.

HARTFORD, Conn. – A group of Connecticut newspapers detailing African-American life in the Northeast during World War II now has a more modern readership. The weeklies were recently added to the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

As an African American, Queer woman I have worked through ... especially for communities of color in Connecticut, New York, and Florida. You deserve more than just a space to talk—you deserve ...