“There isn’t anything wrong with a statue of a black woman but pick one to honor,” wrote one person on Facebook. “Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Sojourner Truth, Shirley Chisholm.

There is a long history of Juneteenth, including the Juneteenth flag, but to sum things up: Juneteenth celebrates the ...

Under a photo of eleven ragtag people—including activist Flo Kennedy ... Thanks to the spirit of Shirley Chisholm, there is somewhere right now another straight-backed, brilliant, outspoken ...

“I’ve never heard anyone say, ‘I don’t want to live on the South Side because black people live there.’ But I’ve often heard people say, ‘I wouldn’t live south of Roosevelt or west ...

It’s a victory dance for the marginal, edgy, weirdo Black nerds.” Hartman grew up in Brooklyn, but her people on her mother’s side are from Alabama. According to family lore, their forebears ...

Did blacks serve in the Confederacy? Absolutely: As enslaved people, countless black Americans cooked, cleaned, and worked for Confederate regiments and their officers. But they didn’t fight ...

For decades, Texans have celebrated Juneteenth in recognition of the historic day in which enslaved people in Galveston were ...