The history of Buffalo Soldiers — all-Black military regiments — in Utah is rich but often buried. A new driving trail, ...

Juneteenth, a federal and state holiday, is celebrated as America’s second Independence Day. While slavery ended for some with the President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, the ...

A decade after the racist massacre at the oldest AME Church in the South, a new book explores the congregation's deep history ...

I’m praying for this new pope from the United States who has roots in the 7th Ward. That was a mind-blowing moment for me,’ ...

Though much of the discussion and Scripture readings focused on love and peace, the current state of politics was also on the ...

The event at the Carl F. Grant Civic Center in Plaquemine will honor four contributors to the spirit of freedom in Iberville ...

The discovery that the first U.S.-born pope has black and Creole roots is a finding that illustrates the nation’s rich, ...

Richard Kurin, now a distinguished scholar at the Smithsonian, remembers Long during the 1990 Festival of American Folklife. In one tent, Long was telling tourists, “We’re in a church in Mississippi, ...