Ellsworth Cemetery was founded by a small cadre of Black Civil War Veterans in 1876 to provide a burial ground for the ...

The 38th African Union (AU) Summit due to convene in Addis Ababa next week has identified "Justice for Africans and People of ...

Local author Jolene McDonald stopped by at the library recently to read her book, “I Will Not Go To Sleep Tonight!” McDonald, who lives in Litchfield, wrote this sweet book, which was illustrated ...

Box Office comic movie “The Gods Must Be Crazy” garnered over $200m. Meanwhile, Nixau Toma, the lead actor, was paid $300 for ...

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...

Many Charlotte-area residents are familiar with some of the more notable figures in local Black history, people like Harvey Gantt, the first Black student accepted to enroll at Clemson University who ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The weekend is upon us, and there are plenty of things to do and see across Kentuckiana. Here are a ...

Bessie Virginia Blount was a physical therapist, inventor and forensic scientist who invented an electronic feeding device in ...

The campaign, which begins on Feb. 8, the feast day of St. Josephine Bakhita, is designated for prayer and awareness of human ...

I always enjoy quizzing kids on what they’re learning about in school. Nine times out of ten they tell me something that wasn ...

Those that did not travel by train left Texas in long “wagon trains.” Once word began to get out that so many Freedmen were leaving Texas, which had the potential of greatly reducing the labor force, ...