Just days before Black Friday 2023, I learned about the Black Friday of 1910 — the one that has nothing to do with great sales and American consumerism, but, instead, is a historic day that ...

In 1868, at the height of the Reconstruction, the pressing issue was black male suffrage. When voters went to the polls that November, they were asked to decide if and how their nation's democracy ...

There, Galloway Higgins gave speeches on suffrage and equal rights, distributed pamphlets and hosted community speakers. Galloway Higgins’ work is just one example of the deep impact Black women ...

Ida B. Wells was in Washington, D.C., in 1913 for a parade of the National American Woman Suffrage Association when she learned that white organizers wanted Black women to march at the back so as ...

Images of voting protests in the nation's capital and an artistic portrait of a Black suffragette have pride of place near a shelf of elephants, a symbol for her sorority. "When you talk about the ...

Editorials and other Opinion content offer perspectives on issues important to our community and are independent from the work of our newsroom reporters. Just days before Black Friday 2023, I ...