Decades in the making, Mount Ararat Baptist Church, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once spoke, will soon get a Civil Rights ...

Longtime MMA referee "Big" John McCarthy worked his first fight at UFC 2, then helped shape the rules and the officiating of ...

His office at the Prince Hall Masonic Lodge is becoming part of the Martin Luther King Junior National Park.

When the Freedom Riders rolled into Jackson in 1961, Mississippi responded with mass arrests — and the Riders answered with a strategy that reshaped the civil rights movement.

The Trust for Public Land will purchase and restore a Masonic lodge in Atlanta used to plan key moments in the Civil Rights Movement.

Black history is part of the real story of America’s diversity, a story that is painful, heroic, and complicated but ...

Memphis carries a heavy history on its back. Once an important railroad stop, the city flourished economically at the beginning of the 20th century and saw the birth of blues, rock, and soul music. It ...

So when Hubbell was informed that the one-woman performance she’d been engaged to perform must exclude any Black characters, she pushed back. Was the library really telling her, she asked, that as a ...

The president of the United States posted a racist video Thursday night depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. On Friday, the White House dismissed criticism — but the president deleted the post ...

This Black History Month, the Underground Railroad Museum and Ohio University Eastern have teamed up for the ‘Echoes of the Underground Railroad’ exhibit featuring 20 items at the college’s campus.

The Congressional Black Caucus and major civil rights groups on Tuesday marked Black History Month by relaunching a national plan to mobilize against what they say are the Trump administration's ...

The Clara Luper National Sit-in Plaza was unveiled late last year. But due to health reasons, this was Calvin Luper's first ...