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Zambian-American author Iris Nwanza launched her debut novel, The Lion’s Den, in Lagos on Saturday.
After discovering that her Black great-grandfather was lynched by her white great-grandfather in Eufaula, Eliza Franklin ...
In Alice Pung’s family, love was imbued with anxiety and fear. But in books, adults had reasoned discussions and talked to ...
Newark Advocate history columnist Doug Stout of the Licking County Library shares writings about local African Americans as told by George B. Smythe.
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — The rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches, whose congregants first gathered ...
"The Wiz," a classic rite of passage in Black American homes for generations, this take on “The Wizard of Oz” first debuted ...
Today’s United States — its possibility, its strength, its divisiveness, its polarization and fragmentation — is encapsulated ...
Juneteenth is the oldest national commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. The genesis came on June 19, 1865, when word of the Emancipation Proclamation reached African-American ...
Milkbread has got counter-service vibes — you just walk up and place your order, or you can order online. It has great ...
Washington Auxiliary Bishop Roy E. Campbell Jr. gives the homily during a Mass on May 18, 2025 at Epiphany Catholic Church in ...