Gov. Wes Moore, the nation’s only Black governor, recently caused a stir in the movement for reparations in his state.

Hiram Revels, the first Black US senator, took office in the late 1800s as part of a wave of African American lawmakers during the Reconstruction era, but he was elected by the Mississippi ...

The remarkable success of the movie “Sinners” has sparked a renewed interest in how the two communities wrestled with life ...

Camilla, Georgia's Black Mayor Kelvin Owens, Interim City Manager Cheryl Ford, and former Election Superintendent Rhunette ...

“This bill is about race, that’s all,” Rep. Ed Larvadain, D-Alexandria, said several minutes later about Chenevert’s House ...

In “The Gunfighters,” the journalist Bryan Burrough offers a lively look at the legends and myths of the Wild West.

NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, an outspoken, gravel-voiced Harlem Democrat who spent nearly ...

One of the earliest Memorial Day observances occurred on May 1, 1865. Organized by freed slaves and white missionaries.

As misguided as he might be, the reality is a lot of people (Black people ... 5% of the congressional seats (153 House members and 44 Senators). Little is known about my third great-great-great ...

“To me, the story of Reconstruction is the story of obstacles ... from the pulpit of a local church to become the first black U.S. senator in the nation’s history. Colfax, La.

Richmond may have taken down Confederate statues, but more than 685 Confederate monuments still stand in public spaces, ...