The first national commemoration of Memorial Day is reported as May 30,1868, However, African Americans began honoring fallen soldiers in May, 1865 in a commemoration that hasn't always gotten credit.

Discover the hidden histories of Baltimore's historic Mount Auburn Cemetery through the stories of trailblazers like Roy Bond ...

The way the news of the new pope’s heritage was made public speaks to the complexity of discussions of race in the U.S.

Over 200 African Americans have been laid to rest in Taylor-Swinson Historic Memorial Cemetery without a tombstone or marker.

Current health statistics data demonstrate striking disparities, which are most evident between African American patients and their white counterparts. This disparity is greatest among male ...

Look where we are right now.” Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing “mere” about symbols.

Between the 17th and 19th centuries, enslaved Africans and African Americans in British North America and the United States staged hundreds of revolts. Fed by a longing for freedom and ...

American Loyalists, Native soldiers and civilians, enslaved and free African Americans, German soldiers in the British service, French and Spanish allies, and various civilians living in North ...

In fact, when Haigler last dived with Jones in 2019, near Key West, Florida, they were celebrating two milestones in African American diving: Underwater Adventure Seekers was 60 years old ...

It is such an honor to realize that he is the first American Pope. What excitement, and what a Great Honor for our Country. I look forward to meeting Pope Leo XIV. It will be a very meaningful ...

Armed with a list of questions on a legal pad and a tape recorder, Edda Fields-Black and her older sister went from house to house in Brownsville recording her family’s history – a task she was paid ...

The United States will begin admitting the first group of White South African refugees next week, whom President Trump’s administration has argued have been victims of “racial discrimination.” ...