The opera spotlights the women who challenged segregation in Montgomery, using classical music infused with sounds of gospel, ...

These women have largely been forgotten, until now. The lesser-known figures who powered the Civil Rights Movement are the subject of a brand-new opera, set to make its world premiere next week in ...

If you’ve been on the lookout for some truly inspiring reads for the young girls (and boys) in your life, you’ve come to ...

As late as 1989, there was a joke on The Golden Girls where Blanche (Rue McClanahan) mentions that 'Glenn Miller's dead' and ...

Since 1976, the contributions of Black pioneers have been remembered during Black History Month, celebrated every February. But its origins stretch farther back with one man that wanted the ...

Fairfax City got Black History Month off to a meaningful start with a special ceremony, Jan. 28, inside the City Hall atrium and in Council chambers. The evening began with a catered reception ...

Though we’re often told teenagers are no more than immature, hormone-addled adolescents, history tells a different ... passing away in 1884. Though Colvin’s arrest transpired months before ...

A North Carolina legislator says President Donald Trump is the reason why one of the world’s largest corporations decided to scrap a Black History Month recognition on its widely used calendar app.

This order threatens not only the ability of institutions to engage with the honest and truthful telling of Black history, but also our shared ability as a nation to understand Black history as a ...

Before it became the Beck Cultural Exchange Center, the century-old house on Dandridge Avenue was already entwined with Knoxville's Black history. The Black families who lived there during the ...

She said Shoemaker promised seniors a trip during Black History Month to visit the Martin Luther King Jr. Center in Atlanta, Georgia, and the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee.