“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 ...

WRAL Investigates has learned the State Bureau of Investigation has an ongoing case involving the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People. A spokesperson for the SBI said it is ...

She believes that such federal intervention foreclosed the possibility that Black people would follow the route to full participation in U.S. social, commercial, and political life taken by ...

Then he flashed the smile that had launched America’s first black ... for white people.” The Tea Party’s leading exponent, Andrew Breitbart, engineered the smearing of Shirley Sherrod ...

Some Black people ... that enslaved people built but ignore the pain and suffering those enslaved people experienced contribute to another kind of erasure. The New York Post quotes Dyess as ...

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 ...

In 1971, she published a biography for young readers of Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress, who later sought the Democratic Party presidential nomination. After “Against ...