Union Temple Baptist Church unveils portrait of civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, marking Pride Month and emphasizing the ...

Fairfax City got Black History ... by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Aug. 28, 1963, March on Washington, D.C. Then Mayor Catherine Read presented a Black History Month Proclamation ...

The Defense Department's intelligence agency has paused observances of Martin Luther King Jr. Day ... and affect 11 annual events, including Black History Month, which begins Saturday, and ...

Stonewall Book Award Winner, “ The Black Flamingo ” was voted by Time Magazine as a Best YA Book Of All Time. The book tells ...

On the first day of Black History Month, hundreds of people came together in East Austin to celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It’s the 32nd year of the MLK Rally and Community ...

The book concludes with King’s famous “Mountaintop Speech” in Memphis, the night before his assassination: “And I’ve looked ...

So now, The Root is taking a closer look at the anti-racist white heroes who were just as down for civil rights as Black ...

Black History ... explores the history of racism in the United States through Baldwin's reminiscences of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. Oscar Nominations ...

Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — two years after the ...

No inter-minority partnership in U.S. history has been as productive — or as fragile — as the bond between Black and Jewish Americans. Together we helped dismantle Jim Crow and broaden this ...

President Donald Trump issued an order to take down exhibits that "divide Americans based on race," but the White House says it wasn't involved and the museum says the moves were part of normal ...

Credit - Bettmann Archive— Father’s Day can sometimes seem like an afterthought in the late-spring holiday lineup: third ...