A three-year analysis of Louisiana State Police data shows troopers use force against Black people at a rate that’s out of ...

Despite its official government recognition in 1975, scholars say Black History Month started decades earlier with the work ...

Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed ...

Isaline Attelly, a native of the Caribbean island of Martinique, had been living in Benin for nearly a year before she ...

In 1956, Colvin became one of four plaintiffs in a case that successfully challenged Montgomery’s segregated bus seating as ...

The president made these comments when asked if protections that began in the 1960s, which resulted in the passage of the ...

Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Alabama in 1955 and became a US civil rights pioneer ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, ...

When I said that Donald Trump was America’s worst self-inflicted injury, I did not know, at the time, how wrong I was. The ...

In 1955, at the age of 15, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before ...

It is a town that knows where it comes from, values hard work and community. That spirit is something you feel the moment you ...

A new exhibit in Fort Lauderdale will show the changing landscape of its historically Black community. The exhibit “Sistrunk Then & Now” opens Thursday at the Old Dillard Museum in Fort Lauderdale, ...